Introduction to special edition: 'the convention on the rights of persons with disability: next generation thinking'

Abstract

This is the introduction to 'The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: Next Generation Thinking', a special edition of the Human Rights Law Review. It is now almost twenty years since the CRPD was passed by the UN General Assembly, and a great deal of interpretive work has occurred since that time. Initial euphoria has given way to the hard intellectual graft of trying to interpret the Convention in a way that ensures the ongoing agency and autonomy of people with disabilities, while developing practical solutions and directions that will make real differences in the lives those people. The special edition is a contribution to those broader discussions, and this introduction gives a flavour of the papers in the collection.