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Introductory Remarks by Michael L. Perlin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael L. Perlin*
Affiliation:
New York Law School, Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates, and the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013, 212-431-2183, [email protected], [email protected]).

Abstract

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Type
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Treatment of Institutionalized Forensic Patients
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 See generally, Perlin, Michael L. & Szeli, Eva, Mental Health Law and Human Rights: Evolution and Contemporary Challenges, in Mental Health and Human Rights: Vision, Praxis, and Courage 98 (Dudley, Michael et al. eds., 2012)Google Scholar.

2 See Michael L.Perlin, International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law: When the Silenced Are Heard (2011).

3 See generally, Perlin, Michael L. & Schriver, Meredith R., “You That Hide Behind Walls”: The Relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention Against Torture and the Treatment of Institutionalized Forensic Patients, in Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health-Care Settings: A Compilation 195 (American University Center on Humanitarian Law ed., 2013)Google Scholar; Michael L. Perlin & Alison J. Lynch, “The Distant Ships of Liberty”: Why Criminology Needs to Take Seriously International Human Rights Laws that Apply to Persons with Disabilities, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2692109.

4 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, G.A. Res. 61/106, U.N. Doc. A/RES/61/106, arts. 3, 15-17, 22 (Dec. 13, 2006).

5 Lord, Janet, Shared Understanding or Consensus-Masked Disagreement? The Anti-Torture Framework in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?, 33 Loy. L. A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 27 (2010)Google Scholar.