Disability & the Law

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights. It investigates how the UN Convention on t...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, ...

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common inte...

Sixteen fractures and eight surgeries caused by brittle bone disease could not stop Ummul Kher from cracking the prestigious IAS exam and joining t...

In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded inte...

The European Yearbook of Disability Law is part of the ongoing research programme of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights of Maastricht Universit...

Questions as to the mental capacity of an individual to consent to sex are an increasingly important aspect of legal scholarship and professional p...

Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activi...

2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authors...

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the concep...

The second edition of Disability Law and Policy provides an updated overview of the major themes and insights in disability law and serves as a com...

Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the feebleminded, justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced ...

This Nutshell presents an overview of the major federal disability laws with emphasis on the statutes, regulations, and significant points of subst...

This casebook covers disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act and special education under the Individuals with Disabilit...

Discrimination is still not sufficiently addressed within liberal democracies. Often only some groups are protected against discrimination and mere...

Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism research can inform and improve juvenile justice policies in Canada and the United ...

This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability...

In this first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, Broderick and Ferri analyse the interaction between different legal...

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Ca...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth ...