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The right to legal agency: domination, disability and the protections of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has created a revolution in legal-capacity law reform. It protects the right to exercise legal agency for people with disabilities with more clarity ...
Recognising legal capacity: commentary and analysis of Article 12 CRPD
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
This paper aims to summarise the current understanding and literature around Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It provides a brief history of the key terms associated with the ...
Algorithms and the rule of law
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-10-05)
In this short article Ronan Kennedy explores fundamental issues surrounding the use of algorithms in the context of the rule of law in our society. He states, The issues that are buried in these systems should be a matter ...
Algorithms and the rule of law
(Society for Computers and Law, 2017-04)
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Socially constructed hierarchies of impairment: the case of Australian and Irish Workers' access to compensation
(Springer Verlag, 2017-11-27)
Objectives: Socially constructed hierarchies of impairment complicate the general disadvantage experienced by workers with disabilities. Workers with a range of abilities categorized as a disability are likely to experience ...
Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence
(SAGE Publications, 2017-09-19)
We are living in an algorithmic age where mathematics and computer science are coming together in powerful new ways to influence, shape and guide our behaviour and the governance of our societies. As these algorithmic ...
Freedom to negotiate: a proposal extricating 'capacity' from 'consent'
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03-15)
In this paper, we seek to radically reframe the legal construct of consent from a disability perspective. Drawing on feminist scholarship and human rights standards around free and informed consent', we apply a concept of ...
State intervention in the lives of people with disabilities: the case for a disability-neutral framework
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
People with disabilities continue to experience a disproportionately high level of state intervention in their private lives. Many disabled people's organisations have long sought to challenge this discriminatory approach ...
Disrupting the status quo? Discrimination in academic promotions
(Thomson Round Hall, 2017)
In June 2016 the HEA Report of the Expert Group: HEA National Review of Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions (Gender Equality Review) reported and stated that there was a need for “radical action” without ...
Once more with ‘sympathy’ but no resolution for intended mothers: the EU, Ireland and the surrogacy dilemma
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-26)
This article examines the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Z v A Government Department and the Board of Management of a Community School and the court's interpretation of existing EU legislation ...