International and European Disability Law and Policy

Andrea Broderick is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands, where she was also a Marie Curie Fellow. She teaches in the areas of international human rights law, including disability law, and EU law. Among other qualifications, she has an LL.M. and Ph.D. in international and comparative disability law, from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Universiteit Maastricht, respectively. In 2018, she obtained the Edmond Hustinx Prize for Science, and is a qualified solicitor and member of the Law Society of Ireland. Delia Ferri is a Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law, National University of Ireland, Maynooth where she is also a member of the executive board of the Assisted Living and Learning (ALL) Institute, and a member of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI). Among other international collaborations, she is an affiliated researcher at the Dirpolis Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy), within the research cluster on social inclusion and disability. Among other qualifications, she holds a J.D. in Law from the Università degli Studi di Verona, an LL.M. from Trinity College Dublin and Ph.D. from the Università degli Studi di Verona. She is also a qualified lawyer and member of the Italian Bar.

Part I. The International Framework: 1. Building the foundations: disability theory and core themes; 2. The protection of the rights of persons with disabilities under international human rights law before the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 3. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 4. Equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities; 5. Accessibility for persons with disabilities; 6. Legal capacity and human dignity; 7. Persons with disabilities and the justice system; 8. The right to work of persons with disabilities; 9. Disability rights, social inclusion and core policy issues; Part II. The European Union Framework: 10. Disability law and policy in the European Union; 11. Disability discrimination in European Union law; 12. Accessibility in European Union law; Part III. The Regional Frameworks: 13. Disability law and policy in the Council of Europe; 14. Disability law and policy in the inter-American human rights system; 15. Disability law and policy in the African human rights system and in the Asian transnational regime.