Disability Rights and the Law: Ensuring Equal Access and Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities Around the World
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 616
Special Issue Editor
Interests: access and inclusion; disability; global and transnational studies; global civil society, and grassroots associations; human rights; inclusive development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past two decades, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has initiated dramatic legal change around the world as States Parties to the Convention enact new laws and policies that ensure access and inclusion for persons with disabilities. The legal process of making disability rights a reality, however, remains incomplete. The 190 countries that have ratified the convention have had varied experiences implementing new disability laws and policies, and their disabled citizens have had varying experiences in the enjoyment of their rights.
This Special Issue on “Disability Rights and the Law: Ensuring Equal Access and Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities around the World” seeks to critically investigate both the gaps and successes in ensuring equal access and inclusion for persons with disabilities around the world. In light of nearly twenty years since the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted by the United Nations, it is important to stop and assess the ways in which disability laws and policies at the international and local levels have evolved and the shortcomings and advancements they have made realizing the vision of equality for all persons with disabilities in society that the CRPD laid forth.
Contributions are invited from scholars, legal practitioners, and advocates. Articles may be international, comparative, or local in scope, and may look at disability rights overall or at specific aspects of the law, such as access to justice and legal capacity, nondiscrimination in the workplace and employment law, freedom from violence and abuse, or asylum-seekers and refugee law. Contributors may also investigate the law in relation to specific identities, such as women and girls with disabilities or Indigenous persons with disabilities, as well as specific disability types, such as persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with psychiatric disabilities. Contributions that challenge and seek to remedy injustices against persons with disabilities are particularly welcome.
Dr. Stephen Meyers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- disability rights
- disability law
- inclusion
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