The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities A Commentary

by Bantekas, Ilias; Stein, Michael Ashley; Anastasiou, Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9780198810667
• ISBN10: 0198810660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-12-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ilias Bantekas, Professor of Law, Brunel and Northwestern (HBKU) Universities, Dimitris Anastasiou, Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Michael Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, and Extraordiary Professor University of Pretoria Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights

Ilias Bantekas FCI Arb is Professor of International Law at Brunel and Northwestern (HBKU) Universities and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) of the University of London. He acts as consultant to various inter-governmental organizations, such as UNDP, UN special procedures, the Council of Europe, and the EU. He also advises state entities, law firms, and NGOs in most fields of international law, human rights, international development law, and arbitration and is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international disputes. Key books include International Human Rights Law and Practice (2nd ed, CUP 2016), International Law Concentrate (OUP, 3rd ed, 2017), Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (OUP 2018), and The International Criminal Court and Africa (OUP 2017).


Dimitris Anastasiou is Associate Professor of Special Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds B.S. degrees in psychology, sociology, and elementary education, an M.Sc. in special education and school psychology, and a Ph.D. in both special education and school psychology. His publications and scholarly interests include philosophical approaches to disability, disability rights, educational and disability policy, comparative special education, co-teaching, cultural issues with implications for educational policy, and educational interventions in reading and writing. Anastasiou has served as co-editor of the iJournal of International Special Needs Education (JISNE), and as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. He is currently associate editor of the JISNE.


Michael Ashley Stein holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School for over a decade, Stein holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights, and a visiting professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam. Stein previously was Professor (and Cabell Professor) at William & Mary Law School, and also taught at New York University and Stanford law schools. An internationally recognized expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled peoples' organizations around the world, actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, advises a number of UN bodies and national human rights institutions, and has brought landmark litigation.

Table of Contents

1. General Introduction: Disability Models, Philosophy and Politics, Dimitris Anastasiou and Ilias Bantekas
2. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and International Human Rights Law, Francesco Seatzu
3. Preamble, Janet Lord
4. Article 1, Emily Kakoullis and Yoshikazu Ikehara
5. Article 2, Anna Nilsson
6. Article 3 General principles, Sarah Arduin
7. Article 4, Andrea Broderick
8. Article 5 Equality and non-discrimination, Jessica Corsi
9. Article 6, Roxanne Mykitiuk and Ena Chanda
10. Article 7, Ilias Bantekas
11. Article 8, Francisco Bariffi
12. Article 9, Anna Lawson
13. Article 10, Smitha Nizar
14. Article 11, Stephanie Motz
15. Article 12, Lucy Series
16. Article 12(5), Anna Nilsson
17. Article 13, Eilionor Flynn
18. Article 14, Michael Perlin and Eva Szeli
19. Article 15, Phil Fennell
20. Article 16, Amanda Keeling
21. Article 17, Francesco Seatzu
22. Article 18, Lawrence Mute
23. Article 19, Janos Fiala-Butora, Arie Rimmerman and Ayelet Gur
24. Article 20, Aart Hendriks and Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri
25. Article 21, Eliza Varney
26. Article 22, Molly Land , Anthony Giannoumis, Aga Kitkowska, and Maria Mikhaylova
27. Article 23, Janos Fiala-Butora
28. Article 24, Dimitris Anastasiou, Michael Gregory and James M Kauffman)
29. Article 25, Penelope Weller
30. Article 26, Jerome Bickenbach and Dimitrios Skempes
31. Article 27, Ilias Bantekas, Facundo Pennilas and Stefan Tromel
32. Article 28, Kevin Cremin
33. Article 29, Ilze Grobelaar Du Plessis, Innocentia Mgijima and Jehoshaphat Njau
34. Article 30, Ilias Bantekas, Chow Pok Yin Stephenson, Stavroula Karapapa and Eleni Polymenopoulou
35. Article 31, Mads Pedersen and Federico Ferretti
36. Article 32, Janet Lord and Michael Ashley Stein
37. Article 33, Valentin Aichele
38. Article 34, Katherine Guernsey
39. Article 35, Arlene Kanter
40. Article 36, Helene Combrinck
41. Article 37, Kris Gledhill
42. Article 38, Ilias Bantekas
43. Article 39, Mary Pat Treuthart
44. Article 40, Ilias Bantekas
45. Article 41, Ilias Bantekas
46. Article 42, Ilias Bantekas
47. Article 43, Ilias Bantekas
48. Article 44, Jacob Katz Cogan
49. Article 45, Ilias Bantekas
50. Article 46, Ilias Bantekas
51. Article 47, Konstantinos Magliveras
52. Article 48, Ilias Bantekas
53. Article 49, Eliza Varney
54. Article 50, Ilias Bantekas
55. Optional Protocol to the CRPD, Tina Stavrinaki