This volume is a systematic commentary on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and includes analysis of its Optional Protocol. It provides an authoritative discussion on the CRPD and will be the definitive resource tool for use in litigation and policy formation at the domestic and international levels.

• 1: Janet Lord: Preamble


• 2: Emily Kakoullis and Yoshikazu Ikehara: Article 1: Purpose


• 3: Anna Nilsson: Article 2: Definitions


• 4: Sarah Arduin: Article 3: General Principles


• 5: Andrea Broderick: Article 4: General Obligations


• 6: Jessica Lynn Corsi: Article 5: Equality and Non-Discrimination


• 7: Roxanne Mykitiuk and Ena Chadha: Article 6: Women with Disabilities


• 8: Ilias Bantekas: Article 7: Children with Disabilities


• 9: Francisco Bariffi: Article 8: Awareness-raising


• 10: Anna Lawson: Article 9: Accessibility


• 11: Smitha Nizar: Chapter 10: Right to Life


• 12: Stephanie Motz: Article 11: Situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies


• 13: Lucy Series and Anna Nilsson: Article 12: Equal Recognition before the Law


• 14: Eilionor Flynn: Article 13: Access to Justice


• 15: Michael Perlin and Eva Szeli: Article 14: Liberty and Security of Person


• 16: Phil Fennell: Article 15: Protection against torture and cruel or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment


• 17: Amanda Keeling: Article 16: Freedom from Exploitation, Violence and Abuse


• 18: Francesco Seatzu: Chapter 17: Protecting the Integrity of the Person


• 19: Lawrence Mute: Chapter 18: Liberty of Movement and Nationality


• 20: Janos Fiala-Butora, Arie Rimmerman and Ayelet Gur: Article 19: Living independently and being included in the community


• 21: Aart Hendriks and Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri: Article 20: Personal Mobility


• 22: Eliza Varney: Article 21: Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information


• 23: Molly Land , Anthony Giannoumis, Aga Kitkowska, and Maria Mikhaylova: Article 22: Respect for Privacy


• 24: Janos Fiala-Butora: Article 23: Respect for home and the family


• 25: Dimitris Anastasiou, Michael Gregory and James M Kauffman: Article 24: Education


• 26: Penelope Weller: Article 25: Health


• 27: Jerome Bickenbach and Dimitrios Skempes: Article 26: Habilitation and Rehabilitation


• 28: Ilias Bantekas, Facundo Pennilas and Stefan Trömel: Article 27: Work and Employment


• 29: Kevin Cremin: Article 28: Adequate standard of living and social protection


• 30: Ilze Grobelaar Du Plessis and Jehoshaphat Njau: Article 29: Participation in Political and Public Life


• 31: Ilias Bantekas, Chow Pok Yin Stephenson, Stavroula Karapapa and Eleni Polymenopoulou: Article 30: Participation in Cultural Life, Recreation, Leisure and Sport


• 32: Mads Pedersen and Federico Ferretti: Article 31: Statistics and Data Collection


• 33: Janet Lord and Michael Ashley Stein: Article 32: International Cooperation


• 34: Valentin Aichele: Article 33: National Implementation and Monitoring


• 35: Katherine Guernsey: Article 34: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


• 36: Arlene Kanter: Article 35: Reports by State Parties


• 37: Helene Combrinck: Article 36: Considerations of Reports


• 38: Kris Gledhill: Article 37: Cooperation between States Parties and the Committee


• 38: Ilias Bantekas: Article 38: Relationship of the Committee with Other Bodies


• 40: Mary Pat Treuthart: Article 39: Report of the Committee


• 41: Ilias Bantekas: Article 40: Conference of States Parties


• 42: Ilias Bantekas: Article 41: [Secretary-General as Depositary]


• 43: Ilias Bantekas: Article 42: Signature


• 44: Ilias Bantekas: Article 43: Consent to be Bound


• 45: Jacob Katz Cogan: Article 44: Regional Integration Organizations


• 46: Ilias Bantekas: Article 45: Entry into Force


• 47: Ilias Bantekas: Article 46: Reservations


• 48: Konstantinos Magliveras: Article 47: Amendments


• 49: Ilias Bantekas: Article 48: Denunciation


• 50: Eliza Varney: Article 49: Accessible Format


• 51: Ilias Bantekas: Article 50: Authentic Texts


• 52: Tina Stavrinaki: Optional Protocol to the 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.