Book contents
- Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Treaties and UN Documents
- 1 Theoretical and Historical Foundations of the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law
- 2 The Meaning of the Right: Interpreting Article 12 of the CRPD
- 3 The Significance of Article 12 of the CRPD: Legal Capacity as Legal Personhood and the Importance of Autonomy
- 4 Theoretical Tensions in Article 12 of the CRPD: Autonomy versus Paternalism and Liberty versus Social Support
- 5 Denying Legal Capacity to People with Cognitive Disability
- 6 Case Law and the Right to Legal Capacity
- 7 Right to Legal Capacity in All Aspects of Life
- 8 The Nature of the Support Paradigm for People with Cognitive Disability1
- 9 Good Practice in Supports for the Exercise of Legal Capacity
- 10 Future Directions in Research and the Pragmatics of Change
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2017
- Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Treaties and UN Documents
- 1 Theoretical and Historical Foundations of the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law
- 2 The Meaning of the Right: Interpreting Article 12 of the CRPD
- 3 The Significance of Article 12 of the CRPD: Legal Capacity as Legal Personhood and the Importance of Autonomy
- 4 Theoretical Tensions in Article 12 of the CRPD: Autonomy versus Paternalism and Liberty versus Social Support
- 5 Denying Legal Capacity to People with Cognitive Disability
- 6 Case Law and the Right to Legal Capacity
- 7 Right to Legal Capacity in All Aspects of Life
- 8 The Nature of the Support Paradigm for People with Cognitive Disability1
- 9 Good Practice in Supports for the Exercise of Legal Capacity
- 10 Future Directions in Research and the Pragmatics of Change
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive DisabilitiesRealizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law, pp. ii - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017