'Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights' Book Launch

Edited by Michael Bach and Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, 'Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights' comprises chapters by key legal scholars and practitioners in the field of legal capacity, disability and human rights from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa. The book aims to explore the historical evolution, theoretical constructs and institutional features of legal capacity within comparative legal systems and determine the legal and social contours it is taking in current legal reforms.

Professor Shazia Choudhry, Professor in the Faculty of Law and Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham, will introduce the event. Commentary will be provided by Professor Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, the book’s co-editor and Visiting Fellow at Exeter College; Professor Jonathan Herring, DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College and Professor of Law; and Dr Heloise Robinson, Singer Fellow in Law at Exeter College.