Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights

Peter Blanck is University Professor and Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, USA. He is also Honorary Professor, Centre for Disability Law & Policy, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Blanck is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), and President of Raising the Floor (RtF) USA. He has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and received grants to study disability law and policy. Eilionóir Flynn is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway. Her interest in disability law stems from a broader interest in social justice and a recognition of the invisibility of people with disabilities in broader human rights discourse. Her current research interests in this field include legal capacity, disability advocacy and access to justice, and she has published widely in national and international peer reviewed journals on these issues, as well as producing a monograph on the implementation of the CRPD for Cambridge University Press.

Theoretical Underpinnings of Disability Law
Section I



1. The Social Model of Disability: Questions for Law and Legal Scholarship?



Anna Lawson & Mark Priestley



2. Beyond the Welfare State – What Next for the European Social Model?



Bjørn Hvinden



3. A Human Rights Model of Disability

Theresia Degener






Ongoing Debates in Disability Law




Section II Introduction



4. Today’s Lesson is on Diversity



Rosemary Kayess & Jennifer Green



5. Equality of Opportunity in Employment? Disability Rights and Active Labour



Market Policies



Lisa Waddington & Mark Priestley & Betul Yalcin



6. Disabled People and Access to Justice: From Disablement to Enablement?



Anna Lawson



7. Hit and Miss: Procedural Accommodations Ensuring the Effective Access of



People with Mental Disabilities to the European Court of Human Rights

Constantin Cojocariu



8. Toward Inclusion: Political and Social Participation of People with Disabilities

Lisa Schur






Emerging Fields in Disability Law






Section III Introduction



9. Legal Capacity: A Global Analysis of Reform Trends



Lucy Series, Anna Arstein-Kerslake & Elizabeth Kamundia



10. Back to the Future? Article 19 and the Nordic Experience of Independent Living



and Personal Assistance

Ciara Brennan



11. eQuality: The Right to the Web



Peter Blanck



12. Disability and Ageing: Bridging the Divide? Social Constructions and Human Rights

Eilionòir Flynn



13. Disability and Genetics – New Forms of Discrimination?

Aisling dePaor



14. Inclusive Development Aid

Mary Keogh



15. Disability Family Policy and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of



Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): The Case of Israel

Arie Rimmerman and Michal Soffer