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The Dialectics Of Wrongful Life And Wrongful Birth Claims In Israel: A Disability Critique, Sagit Mor Jan 2014

The Dialectics Of Wrongful Life And Wrongful Birth Claims In Israel: A Disability Critique, Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

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Invalid Testimony: Disability And Voice In The Criminal Procedure (Co-Authored With Osnat Ein-Dor) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor Jan 2014

Invalid Testimony: Disability And Voice In The Criminal Procedure (Co-Authored With Osnat Ein-Dor) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This Article discuses the sociolegal reality that people with developmental and mental disabilities experience in their interaction with the criminal justice system and the challenges that the criminal system faces when it comes to deal with a case which involves a disabled person. It maintains that the barriers that disabled people face in criminal proceedings do not exist only in pre-trial stages, but also during the trial itself, since courts, too, are impacted by exclusionary legal rules and by cognitive schemas that express negative stereotypes. In 2005 a new law was introduced in Israel: Investigation and Testimony Proceedings (Accommodations for …


From Absence To Presence: A Critique Of Intersex Surgeries (Co-Authored With Maayan Sudai And Or Shai) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor Jan 2013

From Absence To Presence: A Critique Of Intersex Surgeries (Co-Authored With Maayan Sudai And Or Shai) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This is the first Article in Israeli legal scholarship that addresses the rights of intersex persons, who were born with "a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seemto fit the typical definitions of female or male" (INSA). The common practice in most Western countries today is to operate intersex infants in order to assign them to one of the “conventional” sexes: either male or female. The Article lays the foundations for an intersex critique of law that supports the rights of intersex persons and lays out the ground for the critique of the current legal arrangement and the design of …


Relational Malpractice, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy Jan 2012

Relational Malpractice, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy

Sagit Mor

Legal scholarship in recent decades has devoted considerable attention to the "malpractice crisis." Surprisingly, however, the vast majority of this literature has overlooked a fundamental aspect of the problem: the deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship. So far, mainstream legal writing on malpractice has tended to frame the situation as either an insurance crisis or a litigation crisis. Although others have acknowledged that the current malpractice regime has negatively affected the doctor patient relationship, they have narrowly framed the scope of the problem, focusing on the aftermath of a medical error. We argue that contemporary doctor-patient interactions often resemble a battle …


Equal Rights For Disabled People In Employment Law – A Critical Assessment (Hebrew), Sagit Mor Jan 2012

Equal Rights For Disabled People In Employment Law – A Critical Assessment (Hebrew), Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This article presents a pioneering research project, which seeks to explore whether and to what extent the Equal Rights for People with Disability Law, 1998, had an impact on courts' rulings on matters related to disability employment discrimination. In particular, it seeks to examine (1) whether a consistent and instructive legal doctrine has evolved, one that reflects the principles that guided the framers of the legislation, and (2) whether the legal discourse on disability has changed. The article presents the emerging theory of disability legal studies and its unique and original contribution to legal scholarship. Disability legal studies seeks to …


Quality Of Healthcare And The Role Of Relationships: Bridging The Medico-Legal Divide, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy Jan 2012

Quality Of Healthcare And The Role Of Relationships: Bridging The Medico-Legal Divide, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy

Sagit Mor

This article focuses on an often overlooked barrier to efforts to enhance the quality of health care: the relationship crisis that currently exists between physicians and patients. This state of affairs has resulted from the divide between the medical and legal worlds. The medical arena has understandably tended to view the doctor-patient relationship as a purely medical issue, ignoring the law’s impact in generating and sustaining problematic relationship patterns. The legal world has yet to fully recognize this state of affairs, and the law’s role in its evolution and persistence. We offer a relational approach to healthcare law as a …


Disability And The Persistence Of Poverty: Reconstructing Disability Allowances, Sagit Mor Feb 2011

Disability And The Persistence Of Poverty: Reconstructing Disability Allowances, Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

Disability policy has always been deeply immersed in questions relating to the relationships between disability and poverty. Analysts have historically attempted to separate disability from poverty: these efforts began as early as the Poor Laws of eighteenth century England and, enhanced by the rise of the modern welfare state, they culminated in the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 20 years that followed. In this article, I argue that it is time to reexamine the nexus between disability and poverty and attend to their co-constitutive relationships. I suggest a reconstructive reading of disability allowances as a locus …


Relational Malpractice And The Transformation Of Healthcare Law, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy Jan 2011

Relational Malpractice And The Transformation Of Healthcare Law, Sagit Mor, Orna Rabinovich-Einy

Sagit Mor

Legal scholarship in recent decades has devoted considerable attention to the "malpractice crisis." However, the vast majority of this literature has overlooked the essence of the problem. Mainstream legal writing on malpractice has tended to frame the problem as either an insurance crisis or a litigation crisis. In this article, we offer an alternative understanding of the nature of the current malpractice predicament: the decline of the doctor-patient relationship. We highlight the fact that contemporary doctor-patient interactions resemble a battle zone: a majority of physicians view "every patient as a potential malpractice lawsuit," while patients complain that their physicians are …


Between Hope And Evil: Reframing Disability Allowances, Sagit Mor Feb 2009

Between Hope And Evil: Reframing Disability Allowances, Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

The paper identifies and traces the roots of a fundamental tension that underlies disability politics with regard to disability allowances: are cash benefits an archaic and outdated form of assistance to disabled people, or are they still a relevant mode of response to systematic marginalization and exclusion? Based on a field study of the Israeli disability community the paper shows that while disability rights advocates tend to reject disability allowances as fundamentally wrong and to support the transformation of society's social structures, welfare activists tend to view disability allowances as responding to the most pressing needs of poor disabled people. …


Between Charity, Welfare, And Warfare: A Disability Legal Studies Analysis Of Privilege And Neglect In Israeli Disability Policy, Sagit Mor Aug 2006

Between Charity, Welfare, And Warfare: A Disability Legal Studies Analysis Of Privilege And Neglect In Israeli Disability Policy, Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This article introduces a critical perspective, which I term Disability Legal Studies, a field of critical legal theory that employs disability critique, as developed by Disability Studies. I argue that contemporary writing on disability and the law tends to utilize disability critique in a mere instrumental fashion, mainly to support doctrinal analysis or reform proposals. What is needed, I suggest, is substantial research regarding the constitutive role of law in the production of disability. The article investigates the construction of disability in the field of social welfare, claiming that although welfare has indeed provided some relief to people with disabilities, …