The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law

Gauthier de Beco is Reader in Human Rights at the University of Huddersfield, and previously taught at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University College London and the University of Leeds. He has widely published in the area of international human rights law, and is on the editorial board of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme. He has worked as an expert to several international organisations and NGOs. Shivaun Quinlivan lectures in law at National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway. She is a founding member and member of the management committee of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway. Most recently she has been appointed to the role of Vice Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Business, Public Policy and Law. She has worked as a legal expert to several international organisation as well as national and local NGOs with a particular focus on education and equality. Janet E. Lord is a leading authority on international human rights law and the rights of persons with disabilities. She has advised UN agencies, governments, human rights institutions and disability organisations in more than forty countries. She is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. A scholar as well as a practitioner, she has taught human rights law at universities in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States.

1. Introduction; 2. The right to inclusive education for students with disabilities under international human rights law Arlene S. Kanter; 3. Comprehensive legal analysis of Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Gauthier de Beco; 4. Moving towards schools for all: examining the concept of educational inclusion for disabled children and young people Michael Shevlin; 5. Drafting Article 24 education of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rosemary Kayess; 6. The Expressive Dimension of Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Sarah Arduin; 7. Reasonable accommodation: an integral part of the right to education for persons with disabilities Shivaun Quinlivan; 8. Progressive realisation and the right to inclusive education Gauthier de Beco; 9. Financing inclusive education – lessons from developing countries János Fiala-ButoraI; 10. Strategic litigation and inclusive education Peter Barnett and Michael Ashley Stein; 11. Advocacy for inclusive education: a European approach Carla Bonino Covas and Miguel Ángel Cabra de Luna; 12. Advancing the right to inclusive education in development cooperation Janet E. Lord; 13. Harnessing technology to realize the right to inclusive education Cambridge Right to Education Volume Deepti S. Raja and G. Anthony Giannoumis; 14. Indigenous-knowledge-driven education reform as a means of achieving inclusive education in indigenous communities in Canada Anna Gilmer; 15. Inclusive education: perspectives from the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities María Soledad Cisternas Reyes; 16. Emerging trends in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: the right to education for persons with disabilities Andrea Broderick; 17. Emerging jurisprudence on inclusive education under the European Social Charter Shivaun Quinlivan; 18. The scope of recognition and protection of the right to inclusive education in the African human rights system Japhet Biegon; 19. Litigating the right to inclusive education under Irish law Gerry Whyte; 20. Inclusive education in Flanders, Belgium: a country with a long history of segregation Elisabeth De Schauwer; 21. The implementation of the right to inclusive education in Germany Thomas Bernhard; 22. The Past, Present and future of the right to inclusive education in Italy Delia Ferri; 23. Inclusive education in China Zhijun Fu, Bo Chen and Ni Zhen; 24. Legislating inclusive education in the era of the CRPD: The case of Kenya Elizabeth Kamundia; 25. Implementation of the human right to inclusive education in Japan Yoshikazu Ikehara; 26. Charting a legal course towards the inclusion of children with disabilities in Tajikistan Kate Lapham; 27. The right to inclusive education in Argentina Ana Laura Aiello.