Disability Rights in Europe (eBook, PDF)

From Theory to Practice
Redaktion: Lawson, Anna; Gooding, Caroline

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is based on a conference organised jointly by the editors to mark the European Year of Disabled People. It explores the range of legal strategies which have been adopted,both nationally and internationally, to achieve equality for disabled people and facilitate their inclusion into mainstream society. It examines current developments in anti-discrimination law, both within Member States and at EU level. It also assesses the effectiveness and potential of the human rights framework for disabled Europeans. In addition, a number of approaches to the enforcement and promotion of disability rights are considered. Contributors to this book, drawn from across Europe, represent a variety of different backgrounds. They include leading academics in the field, as well as campaigners and others working to improve or enforce disability-related legislation. The book is a unique and timely contribution to an important and rapidly expanding field of study. It will be of relevance to all those, whether lawyers or not, with an interest in disability and equality issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847310804
• Artikelnr.: 52981459

Autorenporträt

Anna Lawson is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds and a member of the University's Centre for Disability Studies and the Law School's Human Rights Research Unit. Caroline Gooding is the Special Adviser to the Disability Rights Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Preliminary
Foreword: B Massey; Chapter 1:A Lawson and C Gooding,Introduction
Part 2: Human Rights
Chapter 2:R Light, Disability and Human Rights: The Persistent Oxymoron;
Chapter 3:L Clements and J Read, The Dog That Didn't Bark: The Issue of
Access to Rights under the European Convention on Human Rights by Disabled
People; Chapter 4: O De Schutter, Reasonable Accommodations and Positive
Obligations in the European Convention on Human Rights; Chapter 5: I Cram,
Hate Speech and Disabled People: Some Comparative Constitutional Thoughts
Part 3: Anti-Discrimination Laws
Chapter 6: T Degener, Disability Discrimination Law: A Global Comparative
Approach; Chapter 7: L Waddington, Implementing the Disability Provisions
of the Framework Employment Directive: Room for Exercising National
Discretion; Chapter 8: C Gooding and C Casserley, Open for All? Disability
Discrimination Laws in Europe Relating to Goods and Services; Chapter 9:J
Schoonheim and D Ruebain, Reflections on Inclusion and Accommodation in
Childhood Education: From International Standard Setting to National
Implementation
Part 4: Achieving Equality Through Law?
Chapter 10: A Hendriks, Promoting Disability Equality after the Treaty of
Amsterdam: New Legal Directions and Practical Expansion Strategies; Chapter
11: S Fredman, Does Disability Equality Challenge the Existing
Anti-Discrimination Paradigm?; Chapter 12: C O'Cinneide, A New Generation
of Equality Legislation? Positive Duties and Disability Rights; Chapter 13:
N O'Brien, The UK Disability Rights Commission and Strategic Law
Enforcement: Transcending the Common Law Mind; Chapter 14: A Lawson, Mind
the Gap! Normality, Difference and the Danger of Disablement Through Law