Disability Rights Law and Policy International and National Perspectives

Editors: Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee

Afterword: Arlene B. Mayerson

Papers conceived and Commissioned by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

Transnational Publishers

 

Contents

Preface  Mary Lou Breslin

Introduction  Mary Lou Breslin

 

Part I: Disability Anti-Discrimination Law - The State of the World

A Survey of International, Comparative and Regional Disability Law Reform Teresia Degener and Gerard Quinn

 

Part II: Foundational Issues in the Use of Anti-Discrimination Law

Where Prejudice, Disability and "Disabilism" Meet  Silvia Yee

Different Definition - Same Problems - One Way Out?  Aart C. Hendricks

Tensions and Coherence in Disability Policy: The Uneasy Relationship Between Social Welfare and Civil Rights Models of Disability in American, European and International Employment Law  Lisa Waddington and Matthew Diller

 

Part III: Focus on the Operation of Laws

The ADA and Models of Equality  Arlene B. Mayerson and Silvia Yee

The Right to Community Integration for People with Disabilities Under United States and International Law  Eric Rosenthal and Arlene Kanter

 

Part IV: Real Life - Needing, Getting and Living With Disability Anti-Discrimination Law

What is Prejudice as it Relates to Disability Anti-Discrimination Law?  David Ruebain

When to Hold "Em and When to Fold "Em: Lessons Learned From Enacting The Americans With Disabilities Act  Patrisha Wright and Jane West

Achieving Accessibility: How the Americans with Disabilities Act is Changing the Face and Mind of a Nation  Silvia Yee and Marilyn Golden

 

Afterword  Arlene B. Mayerson