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Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2007

Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein

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A Quick Overview Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2007

A Quick Overview Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael Ashley Stein

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Disability Human Rights, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2007

Disability Human Rights, Michael Ashley Stein

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Responding to the absence of an international treaty expressly protecting people with disabilities, the United Nations General Assembly will soon adopt a disability-based human rights convention. This Article examines the theoretical implications of adding disability to the existing canon of human rights, both for individuals with disabilities and for other under-protected people. It develops a "disability human rights paradigm" by combining components of the social model of disability, the human right to development, and Martha Nussbaum's version of the capabilities approach, but filters them through a disability rights perspective to preserve that which provides for individual flourishing and modifying that …


Beyond Disability Civil Rights, Michael Ashley Stein, Penelope J.S. Stein Jan 2007

Beyond Disability Civil Rights, Michael Ashley Stein, Penelope J.S. Stein

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Reasonable Burdens: Resolving The Conflict Between Disabled Employees And Their Coworkers, Nicole B. Porter Jan 2007

Reasonable Burdens: Resolving The Conflict Between Disabled Employees And Their Coworkers, Nicole B. Porter

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This Article addresses one of the most difficult issues under the reasonable accommodation provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): how to resolve the conflict that arises when accommodating a disabled employee negatively affects or interferes with the rights of other employees. Several scholars and the Supreme Court (in U.S. Airways, Inc. v. Barnett) have weighed in on this debate, but their analyses fall short of the ultimate goal of this Article--to achieve equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities without unnecessarily interfering with the rights of other employees. In order to achieve that goal, this Article proposes a …