Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Gerard Quinn and Oddny Mjöll Arnardóttir) -- PART I FROM SOCIAL POLICY TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW OF THE 21ST CENTURY -- 1. Disability Studies, the Social Model and Legal Developments (Rannveig Traustadóttir) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Disability Studies - Rethinking Disability -- 3 What is Disability? -- 4 Social Models of Disability -- 4.1 The British Social Model of Disability -- 4.2 The Nordic Relational Approach to Disability -- 4.3 The North American Minority Group Approach -- 5 Disability Studies and Legal Development -- 6 Conclusion -- 2. Future Prospects for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord) -- 1 Toward a Disability Human Rights Convention -- 2 An Overview of the Convention -- 3 Future Prospects for the Convention -- 3.1 The Convention as an Expressive Value Trigger -- 3.2 The Convention as a National Action Trigger -- 3.3 The Convention as a Social Integration Trigger -- 4 Conclusion -- 3. A Future of Multidimensional Disadvantage Equality? (Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Principle of Equality as the Leitmotif of the CRPD -- 3 The Rights of Persons with Disabilities in light of the Development of the Principle of Equality in Human Rights Law -- 3.1 Universal Sameness: 1950s-1970s -- 3.2 Specifi c Diff erence: 1970s-1990s -- 3.3 Multidimensional Disadvantage: Current Trends -- 4 Conclusions -- 4. From Invisibility to Indivisibility: The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Ida Elisabeth Koch) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Integral Convention? -- 3 All Rights have Costs -- 4 The Justiciability of Indivisible Rights -- 5 Conclusion -- PART II THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT.

5. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and European Disability Law: A Catalyst for Cohesion? (Anna Lawson) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Policy Background -- 3 Inclusion -- 4 Reasonable Accommodation -- 5 Material Scope -- 6 Conclusion -- 6. Breaking New Ground: The Implications of Ratifi cation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the European Community (Lisa Waddington) -- 1 The Interrelationship between EC and International Law -- 2 The UN Convention and the Obligations it Imposes -- 3 The Competences of the EC - Overlaps with the Convention -- 3.1 The EC Competence to Negotiate and Sign the Convention -- 3.2 EC Competences to Adopt Legislation Specifi cally referring to Persons with Disabilities - Existing Instruments -- 3.2.1 Discrimination -- 3.2.2 The Internal Market -- 3.2.3 Transport -- 3.2.4 Employment -- 3.2.5 EC Funding -- 3.3 Further Possible EC Competences Falling within the scope of the Convention -- 4 Implications of the Convention for EC Law -- 4.1 Non-Discrimination and Equality -- 4.1.1 The Convention -- 4.1.2 Existing Instruments -- 4.1.3 New Instruments -- 4.2 Other Fields - The Internal Market, Transport and Beyond -- 4.2.1 The Convention -- 4.2.2 Existing Instruments -- 4.2.3 New Instruments -- 4.3 Monitoring the implementation of the Convention and the Involvement of Civil Society -- 5 Conclusion -- 7. The Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (Davío Pór Björgvinsson) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Legal Framework -- 3 Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Case Law of the Court -- 3.1 Defi nition of Disability -- 3.2 Article 3 - Prohibition of Torture and Degrading or Inhuman Treatment or Punishment -- 3.2.1 Conditions of Detention or Imprisonment -- 3.2.2 Expulsion and Deportation of Aliens.

3.3 Article 5 - Right to Liberty and Security -- 3.4 Article 8 - Right to Respect for Private and Family Life -- 3.5 Other Rights -- 3.5.1 Article 6 - Right to a Fair Trial -- 3.5.2 Article 10 - Freedom of Expression -- 3.5.3 Article 14 and Protocol 12 - Non-discrimination -- 3.5.4 Article 1 of Protocol 1 - Protection of Property -- 3.5.5 Article 2 of Protocol 1 - Right to Education -- 4 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. Extracting Protection for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from Human Rights Frameworks: Established Limits and New Possibilities (Colm O'Cinneide) -- 1 Introduction: What Makes the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Special? -- 2 The Limits of the 'Mainstream' Civil and Political Rights Frameworks -- 3 The Marginalisation of Disability within National and International Human Rights Frameworks -- 4 The Relationship between Canadian Substantive Equality Approaches and Disability Rights -- 5 The Marginalisation of Disability Within the ECHR Jurisprudence -- 6 The Potential for Extracting Greater Rights Protection for Persons with Disabilities from the ECHR -- 7 Giving Substance to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Applying 'Minimum Core' and 'Progressive Realisation' Analysis in the Context of Disability -- 8 Protecting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice - The Experience of the European Committee on Social Rights -- 9 The Emergence of a Coherent Disability Rights Jurisprudence -- 10 Conclusion -- PART III BRINGING THE TREATY HOME -- 9. General Themes Relevant to the Implementation of the UN Disability Convention into Domestic Law: Who is Responsible for the Implementation and how should it be Performed? (Holger Kallehauge) -- 1 Initial Measures -- 2 The First Substantive Issues -- 3 Specifi c Obligations of the Convention -- 4 Mapping the Country.

5 The Substantive Implementation -- 6 Progressive Realisation -- 7 Reasonable Accommodation -- 8 A Global Index for the Convention -- 9 National Implementation and Monitoring -- 10 Conclusion -- 10. Resisting the 'Temptation of Elegance': Can the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Socialise States to Right Behaviour? (Gerard Quinn) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Identifying 'Democratic Failure' and the Curative Potential of the Convention -- 3 Why Monitor - A Catalyst for 'Persuasion' and 'Socialisation' -- 4 The Need to Police Reservations that Defl ect the Process of Change -- 5 Innovative Monitoring Proposals on the Table -- 6 The Implementation and Monitoring Process under the Convention - Some Innovations -- 7 Conclusions - Prospects for 'Persuasion' and 'Socialisation' -- 11. The Implementation of the UN Convention and the Development of Economical and Social Rights as Human Rights (Brynhildur G. Flóvenz) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The CRPD's Approach to the Classifi cation of Human Rights -- 3 The Preparatory Phase of the CRPD -- 4 The Eff ect of the Classifi cation on the Implementation -- 5 The Enjoyment of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities without Discrimination in the Judgments of the Supreme Court of Iceland -- 6 Conclusion -- 12. The UN Convention in Nordic Domestic Law - Lessons Learned from other Treaties (Ragnhildur Helgadóttir) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lessons from Other Conventions and from Theory -- 2.1 The Application of U.N. Human Rights Conventions in Domestic Courts -- 2.2 Principles Stated by the Courts and Theory -- 2.3 Statements of Governments Concerning Unincorporated Treaties -- 3 Factors from Theory that may Infl uence how much Attention the Courts pay to International Obligations -- 4 Factors regarding the CRPD, that may Infl uence how the Convention will fare in Domestic Courts -- 5 Conclusions.

Notes on Contributors -- Index.