The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ilias Bantekas FCI Arb is Professor of International Law at Brunel and Northwestern (HBKU) Universities and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) of the University of London. He acts as consultant to various inter-governmental organizations, such as UNDP, UN special procedures, the Council of Europe, and the EU. He also advises state entities, law firms, and NGOs in most fields of international law, human rights, international development law, and arbitration, and is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international disputes. Key books include International Human Rights Law and Practice (CUP,2nd ed, 2016), International Law Concentrate (OUP, 3rd ed, 2017), Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (OUP 2018), and The International Criminal Court and Africa (OUP 2017).
Michael Ashley Stein holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge Universit. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School for over a decade, Stein holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights, and a visiting professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam. Stein was previously Professor (and Cabell Professor) at William & Mary Law School, and also taught at New York University and Stanford Law schools. An internationally recognised expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled peoples' organizations around the world, actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, advises a number of UN bodies and national human rights institutions, and has brought landmark litigation.
Dimitris Anastasiou is Associate Professor of Special Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds B.S. degrees in psychology, sociology, and elementary education, an M.Sc. in special education and school psychology, and a Ph.D. in both special education and school psychology. His publications and scholarly interests include philosophical approaches to disability, disability rights, educational and disability policy, comparative special education, co-teaching, cultural issues with implications for educational policy, and educational interventions in reading and writing. Anastasiou has served as co-editor of the Journal of International Special Needs Education (JISNE), and as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. He is currently associate editor of the JISNE.

Dimitris Anastasiou, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

Sarah Arduin, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Ilias Bantekas, Brunel University, UK, and Northwestern (HBKU) University, Pritzker School of Law

Francisco Bariffi, Human Rights Centre, National University of Mar de Plata, Argentina

Jerome Bickenbach, Swiss Paraplegic Research, Switzerland

Andrea Broderick, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Ena Chandha, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

Pok Yin Stephenson Chow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jacob Katz Cogan, College of Law, University of Cincinnati, USA

Helen Combrinck, Faculty of Law, North-West University, South Africa

Jessica Lynn Corsi, Brunel University London, UK

Kevin Cremin, Disability and Aging Rights at Mobilization for Justice and Columbia Law School, USA

Federico Ferretti, Brunel University London, UK

János Fiala-Butora, Legal Studies Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Harvard Law School Project on Disability, USA

EilionDoir Flynn, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway

Anthony G Giannoumis, Department of Computer Science at Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway and Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, USA

Kris Gledhill, AUT Law School, New Zealand

Michael Gregory, Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

Katherine Guernsey, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the US Department of State

Ayelet Gur, School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Aart Hendriks, Leiden Law School, Netherlands

Yoshikazu Ikehara, Tokyo Advocacy Law Office, Japan

Emily Kakoullis, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK

Arlene Kanter, Syracuse University, USA

Stavroula Karapapa, School of Law, University of Reading, UK

James M Kauffman, University of Virginia, USA

Amanda Keeling, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK

Agnieszka Kitkowska, Karlstad University, Sweden

Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Thailand

Molly K Land, University of Connecticut School of Law and Human Rights Institute, USA

Anna Lawson, University of Leeds, UK

Janet Lord, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, USA

Konstantinos D Magliveras, University of the Aegean, Greece

Maria Mikhaylova, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway

Stephanie Motz, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Lawrence M Mute, School of Law of the University of Nairobi, Kenya

Roxanne Mykitiuk, Osgoode Hall Law School York University, Canada

Anna Nilsson, Lund University, Faculty of Law, Sweden

Smitha Nizar, Alliance School of Law, Bangalore, India

Jehoshaphat Njau, University of Pretoria Disability Rights Project, South Africa

Mads Pedersen, Supreme Court of Denmark

Facundo ChDavez Penillas, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland

Michael L Perlin, New York Law School, USA

Eleni Polymenopoulou, Brunel University, UK

Arie Rimmerman, University of Haifa, Israel

Francesco Seatzu, University of Cagliari, Italy

Lucy Series, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK

Dimitrios Skempes, Swiss Paraplegic Research, Switzerland

Tina Stavrinaki, Racist Violence Recording Network, Greece

Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School, Director of the Harvard Program on Disability, USA

DEva Szeli, Arizona State University, USA

Mary Pat Treuthart, Gonzaga University, USA

Stefan TrD"omel, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Eliza Varney, Keele University, UK

Penelope Weller, Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia