Description

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This book investigates the implementation of disability rights and duties in the European Union, aiming to understand its functioning and explore ways forward through a critical analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) within the context of international regulation.

About the Author

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Ottavio Quirico is a senior researcher in the Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia in Italy and a professor in the School of Law at the University of New England in Australia and the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University. He is also a member of the Research Centre on Transnational Legal Relations at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil, an alumnus of the European University Institute in Florence and a member of the Doctoral Committee of the University of Pavia in Italy. Inter alia, he has been a Marie Curie fellow at University Pantheon-Assas in France and has acted as a consultant to the United Nations.