Thursday, November 1, 2018

Bantekas, Stein, & Anastasiou: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary

Ilias Bantekas (Brunel Univ. - Law; Northwestern (HBKU) Univ. - Law), Michael Ashley Stein (Univ. of Pretoria - Centre for Human Rights; Harvard Univ. - Law), & Dimitris Anastasiou (Southern Illinois Univ. - Special Education) have published The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford Univ. Press 2018). My thanks to the editors for asking me to write the chapter on "Regional Integration Organizations." Here's the abstract:
This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, the key literature on the article under review. The volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice, and will be an ideal resource for all working in the field.