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Promoting Social Change In Asia And The Pacific: The Need For A Disability Rights Tribunal To Give Life To The Un Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin
Promoting Social Change In Asia And The Pacific: The Need For A Disability Rights Tribunal To Give Life To The Un Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin
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There is no question that the existence of regional human rights courts and commissions has been an essential element in the enforcement of international human rights in those regions of the world where such tribunals exist. In the specific area of mental disability law, there is now a remarkably robust body of case law from the European Court on Human Rights, some significant and transformative decisions from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and at least one major case from the African Commission onHuman Rights.
In Asia and the Pacific region, however, there is no such body. Many reasons have …
Introduction [Comments], Andrew Scherer
I Might Need A Good Lawyer, Could Be Your Funeral, My Trial: Global Clinical Legal Education And The Right To Counsel In Civil Commitment Cases, Michael L. Perlin
I Might Need A Good Lawyer, Could Be Your Funeral, My Trial: Global Clinical Legal Education And The Right To Counsel In Civil Commitment Cases, Michael L. Perlin
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The quality of counsel assigned to represent individuals facing involuntary civil commitment to psychiatric hospitals is, in most American jurisdictions, mediocre or worse. In many other nations, it is non-existent, or so minimal as to offer only the illusion of legal safeguards. (Perhaps) remarkably, there has been virtually no mention of this latter scandal in the legal literature. Also, there has been little attention paid to this development by the clinical education movement (domestically and globally).
A variety of interrelated factors, however, may shed some light on this scandal, and may, encouragingly, lead to social change in the future:
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Gideon's Shelter: The Need To Reorganize A Right To Counsel For Indigent Defendants In Eviction Proceedings, Andrew Scherer
Gideon's Shelter: The Need To Reorganize A Right To Counsel For Indigent Defendants In Eviction Proceedings, Andrew Scherer
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Appointed Counsel For The Indigent Civil Defendant: A Constitutional Right Without A Judicial Remedy., Michael Botein
Appointed Counsel For The Indigent Civil Defendant: A Constitutional Right Without A Judicial Remedy., Michael Botein
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