Disability and the law

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

This is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

With genetic technologies advancing rapidly, Aisling de Paor examines the urgent need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

This book discusses American and European policies surrounding deinstitutionalization and community living, including Articles 12 and 19 of the UNCRPD.

The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This book examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights.

This book examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights.

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

The concept of reasonable adjustment (alternatively known as reasonable accommodation) is rapidly gaining significance for countries throughout Europe and beyond.

The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies.

Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society.

Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities.

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school.

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Introduced in 2008, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has existed for nearly a decade.

Introduced in 2008, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has existed for nearly a decade.

Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment.

Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability.