The Need for a Disability Rights Tribunal in Asia and the Pacific

This panel will discuss the need for a disability rights tribunal in Asia and the Pacific, the only area of the world in which there is no interregional human rights court or commission, and where the absence of such a court or commission has been a major impediment in the movement to enforce disability rights in that area. This absence has grown even more important since the ratification of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Panelists:

• Maya Sabatello, Director of the Disability Rights in Society Program at Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights; lecturer on human rights and co-author of Human Rights and Disability Advocacy (U. of Pennsylvania Press 2013)
• Michael Stein, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; co-director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability; Professor, William & Mary Law School
• Eva Szeli, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University; former director of European Operations for Mental Disability Rights International; co-author of International Human Rights Law and Comparative Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2016); Adjunct Professor, New York Law School

Moderator:

• Professor Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School, Director, International Mental Disability Law Reform Project.

This event is sponsored by the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School and the American Society of International Law's Disability Rights Interest Group and International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group.