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Subject: [SDS Members] "Disability Legal Studies" call for papers
Date: 2018/02/05 14:20
 From: Katharina Heyer <heyer at hawaii.edu>
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Dear Colleagues:

We are excited to announce a mini symposium on disability legal studies
in the _Law & Society Review_. Abstracts are due March 15. Please see
below.

LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW CALL FOR PAPERS:

“DISABILITY LEGAL STUDIES”

The _Law and Society Review_ is inviting articles for a mini symposium
on disability legal studies, an emerging area of research on the role of
law in the social construction of disability.

Within sociolegal studies disability is emerging as an important site of
analysis of legal categories, social movements, and rights. The
symposium is to draw attention to creative intersections between these
modes of inquiry. We are looking for articles that push this
intersection in new directions and that expand or challenge the
possibilities and limits of sociolegal theory.

This symposium invites critical interrogations of disability and the law
that reflect sociolegal methods and approaches. We hope to generate
articles that place disability at the center of analysis of contemporary
legal issue, such as immigration, education rights, police violence,
incarceration, or reproductive rights. Other potential topics include
access and accommodations, institutionalization, guardianship, voting
rights, ableism in employment, criminal justice, , disability and the
welfare state, and access to justice. We invite articles that generate
more complex understanding of legal concepts, such as normalcy,
competence, rationality, autonomy, productivity, and citizenship, as
well as comparative studies of disability rights movements and human
rights discourse, and for studies that employ intersectional analysis.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Please submit a 1000-word abstract by March 15, 2018.

If selected, the full article will be due August 1, 2018

PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS:

Katharina Heyer heyer at hawaii.edu

Sagit Mor smor at univ.haifa.ac.il

Cofounders and co-coordinators of the Law & Society Association’s CRN
on disability legal studies

ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS:

KATHARINA HEYER is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research focus is on the
sociolegal inquiry into rights and social movements, disability law, and
comparative legal cultures. Her book _Rights Enabled: The Disability
Revolution_ (Univ. Michigan Press, 2015) traces the journey of
disability rights from the United States to Japan, Germany and the
United Nations and examines the ways disability rights models become
transformed through national and international instruments. Her current
research focuses on the politics of rights and autonomy over vulnerable
bodies in contemporary debates surrounding assisted dying, prenatal
testing, and abortion rights.

SAGIT MOR is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Law and Health LL.M.
Program at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Israel. She was the
co-coordinator of the Jerusalem based Van Leer study group on Disability
Studies, an Israel Institute fellow at the University of Washington’s
Law, Societies, and Justice program and a recipient of the Ed Roberts
postdoctoral fellow in disability studies at UC Berkeley. She has
published on issues of law and social change, disability employment
discrimination, wrongful life lawsuits, and access to justice, and is
the co-editor of  _Disability Studies: A Reader_ (in Hebrew).
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