Part II The law: International human rights law and disability
Section II Other international and regional human rights instruments and disability
Further reading for Part II
What follows is a very limited list of some of the best publications on the UN CRPD.
These are general publications and do not go into specific fields (like education).
The literature with respect to the latter is now voluminous.
General resource
A useful archive of resources on UN CRPD is hosted by the Harvard Project on
Disability, available at: www.hpod.org/resources/human-rights.
Significant publications pre-Convention
• M. Saulle, Disabled Persons and International Organizations (Rome, 1981)
• T. Degener and Y. Koster-Dreese (eds.), Human Rights & Disabled Persons: Essays and
Relevant Human Rights Instruments (Nijhoff, 1995)
• M. Breslin and S. Yee, Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives
(Transnational, 2002)
• T. Degener and G. Quinn, Human Rights and Disability: The Current Use and Future Potential of
the United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the context of Disability
(OHCHR, Geneva, 2002)
Significant publications post-Convention
• M. Schulze and M. Sabbatello, Human Rights and Disability Advocacy (University of
Pennsylvania Press (2014)
• M. Stein and E. Emens, Disability & Equality Law (Ashgate, 2013)
• M. Birtha, ‘Nothing about CRPD Monitoring without us: A Case Study on the involvement of the
disability movement in policy-making in Zambia’, Vol. 1, African Yearbook on Disability (2013)
• J. Anderson and J. Philips, Disability and Universal Human Rights: Legal, Ethical and
Conceptual Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(University of Utrecht, 2012)
• E. Flynn, From Rhetoric to Action: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• M. Schulze, A Handbook on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Understanding the
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Handicap International, 2010)
• K. Kumpuvuori and M. Scheinin (eds.), United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Abo Academy Press, 2010)
• S. Tromel, ‘A personal perspective on the drafting history of the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, Vol. 1, European Yearbook of Disability Law (2009)
• R. Colker, When is Separate Unequal: A Disability Perspective (Cambridge 2009)
• O. Arnardottir and G. Quinn, The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Nijhoff, 2009)
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