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Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Researcher at University of Melbourne
Publications - 48
Citations - 891
Anna Arstein-Kerslake is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities & Human rights. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 47 publications receiving 803 citations. Previous affiliations of Anna Arstein-Kerslake include National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Legislating Personhood: Realising the Right to Support in Exercising Legal Capacity
TL;DR: In this article, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has been used to argue for a conception of personhood that is divorced from cognition and a corresponding recognition of legal capacity as a universal attribute that all persons possess.
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Legislating personhood: Realising the right to support in exercising legal capacity
TL;DR: In this paper, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has been used to argue for a conception of personhood that is divorced from cognition and a corresponding recognition of legal capacity as a universal attribute that all persons possess.
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The General Comment on Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a roadmap for equality before the law
TL;DR: The General Comment No. 1 on the right to equal recognition before the law adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) as mentioned in this paper deals with the contentious right to legal capacity in Article 12.
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Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of decision-making and the ways in which it is currently denied to people with cognitive disability and provide a roadmap to achieving such equality.
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The Support Model of Legal Capacity: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a plausible legal framework within which to ground a support model of legal capacity and fully replace regimes of substituted decision-making and claim that such a system of support will ultimately benefit all individuals, not just persons with disabilities.