In April, the Harvard Law School Library hosted a panel discussion on “The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary,” co-edited by Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein and Jacqueline Bhabha. Part of the Oxford University Press series of Commentaries on International Law, the treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Panelists included:
Ilias Bantekas, professor of International Law and Arbitration at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and senior fellow at the School of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) University of London.
Michael Ashley Stein ’88, visiting professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, as well as extraordinary professor, University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights.
Jacqueline Bhabha, professor of the practice of health and human rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law, Harvard Law School; and adjunct lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. She is the director of research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.
Gerald L. Neuman is J. Sinclair Armstrong professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School.
Ruth Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center.
The discussion was moderated by William P. Alford ’77 who is vice dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies; Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen professor of law; director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program; and chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.
This talk was co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.