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European Yearbook of Disability Law

Volume 1

Book | 1st edition 2009 | United Kingdom | Gerard Quinn, Lisa Waddington
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This new Yearbook reviews the significant developments at European level regarding disability law and policy. The field of disability law and policy is both new and rapidly expanding at European level. It covers a disparate range of subject areas including non-discrimination, transport, education, employment and housing. For the first time, the Yearbook draws all of the relevant developments together and provides an indispensable reference work for lawyers, public policy analysts, researchers, government agencies and civil society groups.

The Yearbook contains a series of essays on current challenges and developments from senior analysts and academics in the field. It aims to provide critical insight in the evolution of European disability law and policy and offers an analysis of pressing challenges in a broad range of fields.

The core of the Yearbook consists of a review of the preceding year’s significant events, as well as policy and legal developments within the institutions of the European Union. It reviews major EU policy developments, studies and other publications, legislative proposals, and non-discrimination case law from the European Court of Justice, as well as the outcomes of major conferences and other relevant events.

The Yearbook also reviews the relevant developments on disability issues within the Council of Europe and recounts for example, the work of the Committee of Ministers, the emerging case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the growing disability jurisprudence of the European Social Charter as well as developments within the other treaty monitoring bodies of the Council of Europe, such as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Framework Convention for the Protection of Minorities.

The relevant work of other European level bodies in the field of disability including the OECD and the European Conference of Transport Ministers, especially with respect to emergency planning and disability, is also reviewed. An account is given of the relevant activities of various European level civil society groups including principally the European Disability Forum, the European Coalition for Community Living, and the Mental Disability Advocacy Group.

The Yearbook also contains a bibliography of major publications in the field of European disability law and policy as well as an annex containing the full text of the most significant documents and policy developments.


About the Yearbook:
‘[t]he European Yearbook of Disability Law is a significant undertaking by its editors and contributors. Its continuation in future years offers a very fertile ground for the exploration and development of both principles and legal practice in the European context. […] It is certainly vital as a reference work for those wishing to distill and update their knowledge of the complexity of the European institutional context (particularly for students and teachers of international disability law or of European law).’
Mark Priestley in (2011) Disability & Society, 245

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Type of product Book
Format Hardback
EAN / ISSN 9789050958202
Series name European Yearbook of Disability Law
Weight 806 g
Status Available
Number of pages xii + 382 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Oct 22, 2009
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Table of Contents
  • Editorial The European Yearbook of Disability Law: A New Publication For an Emerging Field
    Gerard Quinn, Lisa Waddington
  • Part I: Articles and Short Commentaries
  • Redistributive and Regulatory Disability Provisions: Incompatibility or Synergy?
    Bjorn Hvinden
  • ‘Promoting equality ?’ Early Lessons from the Statutory Disability Duty in Great Britain
  • Legal Capacity Law Reform in Europe: An Urgent Challenge
    Mary Keys
  • A Short Guide to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
    Gerard Quinn
  • A personal perspective on the drafting history of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
    Stefan Trömel
  • Implementing the Digital Accessibility Agenda of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities
    Axel Leblois
  • An Introduction to the Austrian Federal Disability Equality Act
    Anthony Williams
  • Part II: Annual Review of European Law and Policy
  • The European Union
  • The Council of Europe
  • Other European Intergovernmental Organizations and Civil Society Groups
  • Part III: Annex of Key Documentation
  • Proposal for a Council Directive on Implementing the Principle of Equal Treatment between Persons Irrespective of Religion or Belief, Disability, Age or Sexual Orientation
  • Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the conclusion, by the European Community, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Issue Paper from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights on ‘Human Rights and Disability: Equal rights for all ’
  • EDF position on the proposal for a Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (Article 13 Directive)
  • Disability as the new frontrunner in EC non-discrimination legislation? Report of the Public Hearing at the European Parliament: Future anti-discrimination legislation: what are the specificities of the ‘DisabiLity’ Ground14 May 2008?
  • Extract from the Judgment of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 11 July 2006 in the case of Sonia Chacón Navas
  • Extract from the Judgment of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 17 July 2008 in the case of S. Coleman v Attridge Law, Steve Law
  • Extract from the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (Grand Chamber) of 13 November 2007 in the case of D.H. and Others v. The Czech Republic
  • Extract from the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (First Section) of 27 March 2008 in the case of Shtukaturov v. Russia
  • Extract from the Decision of the European Committee of Social Rights of 4 November 2003 in the Collective Complaint of Autism - Europe v. France
  • Extract from the Decision of the European Committee of Social Rights of 3 June 2008 in the Collective Complaint of Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC) v. Bulgaria