New Frontiers In Anti-Discrimination Law: International Human Rights Law on Persons With Disabilities

Description: 

Theresia Degener, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, will present on the Committee’s jurisprudence on the right to be protected against discrimination and the right to equality, and will put this jurisprudence in a broader context of human rights and disability. In particular, the focus will be on the draft General Comment No 6 on Art. 5 CRPD (equality and nondiscrimination). Degener is professor of law and disability studies at Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany and director of the Bochum Center of Disability Studies. Currently she is Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She co-authored (with Gerard Quinn) “Human rights and disability: The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability” (2002), the background study to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Date and Location

Date: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Dean's Seminar Room, 215B Boalt Hall, School of Law, UC Berkeley
Address 1: 
215 Bancroft Way
City: 
Berkeley
State: 
CA
Zip Code: 
94720