Legal Capacity & Gender

Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities

AvAnna Arstein-Kerslake

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual’s legal capacity. As such, the book offers both a novel contribution to the field of legal capacity law and a tool for creating change and helping to realise the right to legal capacity for all.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-26
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:153
Upplaga:21001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030634926

Utforska kategorier

Internationell rätt inom Juridik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Komparativ rätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Dr Anna Arstein-Kerslake is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is the author of one of the first books on the right to legal capacity, Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She supported the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the drafting of their general comment on the right to equal recognition before the law and she has worked with domestic and international bodies around the world on law and policy reform towards the realisation of the right to legal capacity.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Right to legal capacity: Debates and legal argument.- 2. Personhood: perspectives from critical feminist, disability and queer studies.- 3. Gender, disability & decision-making: Historical discrimination.- 4. Gendered denials: Law, policy and practice.- 5. Vulnerability created by legal capacity denials.- 6. Creating change: Examples of modern reform and recommendations.