Critical Essays on Disability Rights Jurisprudence

Keynote
Mainstream scholarship still does not attach much relevance to either disability rights jurisprudence or disability legal studies. This book aims to fill this deficit by pushing the disability rights jurisprudence into the mainstream through high quality articles written by prominent scholars like Professor Upendra Baxi, Professor Amita Dhanda.

Description

The book is a collection of high quality research papers contributed by eminent academicians, philosophers and jurists. The main objective of this book is to disseminate and spread awareness about Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD). Secondly, the book also provides useful inputs to activists, lawyers, jurists and academicians to evolve empowerment strategies for recognition, promotion and protection for RPWD. Besides the Indian scenario, the book also explores developments in disability rights in countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and USA thereby broadening the horizon of the field. Besides, there are also high quality articles engaged in human rights discourse focusing on international law standards of RPWD.

Contents of the book

Introduction – Dr. Sanjay Jain and Ms. Tresa Paul

PART I – DISABILITY, LAW AND SOCIAL THEORY

Chapter 1 While Exclusion may or may not be intentional, Inclusion must always be– Hon’ble Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud
Chapter 2 The deeper meaning of Disability: Ambedkar and the Social Theory of Disability– Prof. Upendra Baxi
Chapter 3 Legal capacity and the dilemmas of Ableism: Reflecting on the life and work of Dr. Shirish Deshpande– Prof. Amita Dhanda
Chapter 4 The path of an expert in Human Rights– Prof. María Soledad Cisternas Reyes
Chapter 5 Reflections on Constitutional and Legal Conception of Disability in India– Dr. Sanjay Jain
Chapter 6 Shifting the Epistemic Centre: Teachings from Sign Linguistics– Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Chapter 7 Gender and Disability: Perspectives of Adolescent Girls from Delhi (India)– Prof. Renu Addlakha
Chapter 8 Disabilities and the Capabilities Approach: A Philosophical Critique – Dr. Biraj Mehta Rathi
Chapter 9 My journey as a law clerk in the Supreme Court of India: Some reflections– Rahul Bajaj

PART II – DISABILITY COMPARATIVE LAW

Chapter 10 Critical Evaluation of the Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016 in the Light of United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006 – Dr. Shirish Deshpande and Dr. Varsha Deshpande