{"id":2107,"date":"2022-03-16T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:41:42","slug":"special-event-global-disability-cause-lawyering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2022\/03\/16\/special-event-global-disability-cause-lawyering\/","title":{"rendered":"Special event:  Global Disability Cause Lawyering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global Disability Cause Lawyering: \u00a0Perspectives from Leading Lawyers in the Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adopted by the United Nations in 2006, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has inspired a new generation of lawyers to assist clients with disabilities seeking remedies for human rights violations before local, national, and international bodies.\u00a0While many of these lawyers narrowly advocate for their individual clients\u2019 rights, others endeavor more strategically to bring cases that will advance systemic CRPD implementation for the broader disability community.<br \/>\nStrategic litigation, or cause lawyering, to advance the human rights of various groups based on their identities (e.g., race), or on thematic issues cutting across populations (e.g., economic, social and cultural rights), has been extensively studied. However, the complex dynamics and considerations that inform disability-specific cause lawyers remain almost unexplored.\u00a0This event will present a window into these dynamics by describing the efforts of litigants around the world to advance protections of persons with disabilities\u2019 rights in international and local fora.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Welcome and Setting the Stage<br \/>\n<\/strong>David B. Wilkins, Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession<br \/>\n<strong>Global Disability Cause Lawyering<br \/>\n<\/strong>Michael Ashley Stein, Co-founder and Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability<br \/>\n<strong>Perspectives from Leading Lawyers in the Movement (and Q&amp;A)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Mar\u00eda Soledad Cisternas Reyes, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility<br \/>\nJanos Fiala, Lecturer, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway<br \/>\nSanjay Jain, Principal, ILS Law College, Pune, India<br \/>\nElizabeth Kamundia, Assistant Director, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 24<\/strong>\u00a0at 10 a.m. | Online;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/harvard.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_A4BD8VcHQx2AycyTjoywOQ\">register here<\/a><br \/>\nLive closed captioning will be provided throughout the event.<br \/>\nSponsored by the Center on the Legal Profession, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and International Legal Studies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Disability Cause Lawyering: \u00a0Perspectives from Leading Lawyers in the Movement Adopted by the United Nations in 2006, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has inspired a new generation of lawyers to assist clients with disabilities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2022\/03\/16\/special-event-global-disability-cause-lawyering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}