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This book comprises chapters by key legal scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa. It examines the evolution, theoretical constructs and institutional features of legal capacity, as well as the specific ways in which evolving principles, rights and standards derived from disability law and human rights are impacting and transforming the law. The book also explores emerging and persistent legal questions, as well as the challenges in conceiving, designing and implementing more comprehensive reforms in legal capacity regimes.

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NICOLÁ S ESPEJO-YAKSIC is Researcher at the Centre for Constitutional Studies of the Supreme Court Justice, Mexico, Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford, Guest Lecturer in Law at the University of Leiden and Corresponding Member of the Cambridge Family Law Centre at the University of Cambridge. He is also Chair of the International Network on Constitutional Family Law (INCFL) and has served as advisor for the United Nations. He has researched and published in the fields of children's rights in theory and practice, international human rights, family law, disability and compara MICHAEL BACH is Managing Director of the Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS), Adjunct Professor at the School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University and was a Fellow at the Open Society Foundations, during which he conducted research on key concepts on which this collection is based, and convened with many of the authors. He has a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto and has undertaken legal and policy research on disability rights, as well as published numerous professional papers, articles and books in this area

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