This Article studies how the adjudicative institutions created by the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) have worked to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities. It argues that those institutions, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the Commission or IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Court or IACtHR), have begun to construct a regime of enforceable rights of persons with disabilities by applying international rules and interpretations to fill gaps in a relatively sparse Inter-American disability rights treaty framework. To buttress general principles of equality and non-discrimination with specific rights, the Commission and the Court have turned to the United Nations (UN), and occasiona...
In Part I of this article we examined the actual and potential application of global international l...
The United Nations General Assembly in New York City adopted the International Convention on the Rig...
Naturally, we will focus a great deal at this gathering on the recently adopted U.N. Convention on t...
This Article studies how the adjudicative institutions created by the Inter-American Convention on H...
This Article studies how the adjudicative institutions created by the Inter-American Convention on H...
This Article examines the history of disability law in the United States and the future of disabilit...
The present article focuses on the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights (Inter-A...
The human rights approach to disability is part of the human rights movement that has developed over...
This contribution explores disability rights protection in Inter-American States within the framewor...
This Article reviews the processes by which domestic-level transposition of international human righ...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marks a shift in international legal r...
On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the ...
[Excerpt] Responding to the absence of an international treaty expressly protecting people with disa...
In this piece I explore whether, if established, the proposed International Convention on Protection...
In Part I of this article we examined the actual and potential application of global international l...
The United Nations General Assembly in New York City adopted the International Convention on the Rig...
Naturally, we will focus a great deal at this gathering on the recently adopted U.N. Convention on t...
This Article studies how the adjudicative institutions created by the Inter-American Convention on H...
This Article studies how the adjudicative institutions created by the Inter-American Convention on H...
This Article examines the history of disability law in the United States and the future of disabilit...
The present article focuses on the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights (Inter-A...
The human rights approach to disability is part of the human rights movement that has developed over...
This contribution explores disability rights protection in Inter-American States within the framewor...
This Article reviews the processes by which domestic-level transposition of international human righ...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marks a shift in international legal r...
On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the ...
[Excerpt] Responding to the absence of an international treaty expressly protecting people with disa...
In this piece I explore whether, if established, the proposed International Convention on Protection...
In Part I of this article we examined the actual and potential application of global international l...
The United Nations General Assembly in New York City adopted the International Convention on the Rig...
Naturally, we will focus a great deal at this gathering on the recently adopted U.N. Convention on t...