Books in the Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series series

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

This book offers a set of principles for designing policy that prioritizes the rights of all people in care and support relationships, including mothers, carers and people with disabilities. It does so by focusing on what is required to secure gender equality, human rights and dignity for all.

The social contract tradition, brought back to life by philosopher John Rawls in the late twentieth century, contains values and assumptions that are dear to our liberal ethos. This book examines how this important philosophical tradition nevertheless tends to exclude people with severe intellectual disabilities from the realm of justice.

Drawing on archival materials, the authors highlight the diversity and severity of psychological distress among white and African-American veterans of the Union army. Their findings concerning the recognition of veterans' post-traumatic stress disorders, treatment programs, and suicide rates will inform current studies on how to effectively cope with this enduring disability in former soldiers.

This book presents an investigation into the need for an EU-level framework to regulate genetic information. It is ideal for legal and medical scholars and practitioners, and those interested in genetic testing and the ethical, legal and regulatory implications. It is a source of reference for policymakers and a vital contribution to law reform and legislative initiatives.

This book explores the implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for law, policy and practice that respond to the complex issues raised by mental health impairment and disability. It argues that the support framework of the CRPD holds the potential to address persistent shortcomings in mental health law and policy.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access. It contributes to disability rights scholarship and ideas of digital equality in analysis of domestic disability anti-discrimination, civil, human and constitutional rights, copyright and other reading equality measures.

This book argues that communities need better planning to improve navigation for people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place. This book undertakes to explain mobility impairment, as one type of disability, in terms of planning and zoning.

Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. This book is about the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, autism, and print-related disabilities.

Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. This book examines the evolution of this legislative oversight across a number of jurisdictions and explores the tensions and ambiguities that inform these laws.

This book focuses on the post-Civil War experience of African Americans and immigrants, investigating their decision to seek government assistance and assessing their resulting treatment.

This book is valuable to anyone interested in individual decision-making and the law, especially rights for people with cognitive disabilities. How they are granted rights under Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an important issue to scholars and students promoting disability rights. This authoritative work will be a welcome resource.

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have that the health care setting is a dangerous place and that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics.

People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past decades. This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world, reviewing hundreds of studies and presenting new evidence from analysis of surveys and interviews with disability leaders.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination. It argues that the formal equality or color blind model that has dominated the race discrimination arena does not work well in the disability context.

Social inclusion is often used interchangeably with the terms social cohesion, social integration and social participation, positioning social exclusion as the opposite. The latter is a contested term that refers to a wide range of phenomena and processes related to poverty and deprivation, but it is also used in relation to marginalised people and places. This book consists of two parts: the first aims to review the domestic and international historical roots and the conceptual base of disability, as well as the expressions of social exclusion of people with disabilities that interfere in their efforts to exercise their rights in society. It offers a comprehensive review of social and legal approaches to social exclusion and inclusion. The second part introduces and analyses domestic and international social and legal strategies to promote social inclusion for people with disabilities.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies. It comprises a comparative study that was conducted at international, regional and comparative country levels and that highlights critical success factors in implementing disability strategies or action plans worldwide. It explores emerging synergies between what is required to implement principles of international law contained in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and what it is possible to achieve through national policy and systems development. A number of critical success factors for implementing and monitoring strategies are identified, including leadership from government and civil society, participation of disabled people in implementation and monitoring, transparency and accountability in reporting on progress, independent monitoring and external review, and the ability to measure progress with indicators of disability equality.

Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves.

Disability and Information Technology examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies (ICTs) safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights. It adopts a comparative approach focused on four case studies: Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. It focuses on the tension between social and economic values in the regulation of ICTs and calls for a regulatory approach based on a framework of principles that reflects citizenship values. The analysis identifies challenges encountered in the jurisdictions examined and points toward the rights-based approach advanced by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a benchmark in protecting the rights of persons with disabilities to have equal access to information. The research draws on a wealth of resources, including legislation, cases, interviews, consultation documents and responses from organisations representing persons with disabilities.

The volume fills an important gap in literature by providing a detailed overview of the right to inclusive education in international human rights law and its application, in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, at the national, regional and international levels.

This volume integrates cutting-edge research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making. Emerging work from legal, psychology, education, and health fields are described, and applications for supports provision in the disability field are highlighted with a specific focus on promoting valued outcomes, including self-determination and quality of life.

This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues as well as practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This book explores the status and scope of family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues. It identifies the critical role of family-centered policies, as expressed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.