Implementing International Disability Law in the European Union

This book investigates the implementation of disability rights and duties in the European Union, aiming to understand its functioning and explore ways forward through a critical analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) within the context of international regulation.

Auteur

Ottavio Quirico is a senior researcher in the Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia in Italy and a professor in the School of Law at the University of New England in Australia and the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University. He is also a member of the Research Centre on Transnational Legal Relations at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil, an alumnus of the European University Institute in Florence and a member of the Doctoral Committee of the University of Pavia in Italy. Inter alia, he has been a Marie Curie fellow at University Pantheon-Assas in France and has acted as a consultant to the United Nations.