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Prof. Gerard Quinn

Professor Gerard Quinn
B.A. (NUI), LL.B. (NUI), B.L. (King's Inn), LL.M.(Harvard), S.J.D.(Harvard)

Tel.: 353 (0)91 524411, Ext. 3014
Temporary Office: Centre for Disability Law & Policy, Room 10, Westside Community Centre.
email: gerard.quinnnuigalway.ie

Gerard Quinn is the Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway School of Law.  Called to the Irish Bar in 1983, he holds a masters (LL.M.) and doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. 

His specialization is international and comparative disability law and policy.

He is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission and helps co-ordinate the work of National Human Rights Institutions worldwide on disability issues.  He led the delegation of Rehabilitation International (RI) during the UN Working Group that elaborated the basis for the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

He has worked in the European Commission (as a civil servant), and held a number of posts such as Director of Research for the Irish Government’s Law Reform Commission and Vice President of the European Committee of Social Rights (Council of Europe).  He sits on various advisory boards dealing with disability law and policy issues such as SOROS-OSI (Washington, DC), Disability Rights Fund (Boston, MA), European Foundation Centre Consortium on Disability(Brussels), European Coalition for Community Living (London), Interights (London).

Areas of Research & Postgraduate Supervision

• United Nations and disability & policy (especially the United National Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
• European Union and disability law & policy (especially discrimination issues).
• Council of Europe & disability law & policy.
• Comparative US and European approaches to disability law.
• Development aid and disability.
• eAccessibility.

Courses Taught

• Comparative Disability Law (LL.B.).
• Theories of Judicial activism (LL.M. in Public Law).
• Ph.D disability law & policy programme.

Publications

Recent

• Quinn G., Disability Discrimination Law in the European Union, in Meenan H, (Ed), Equality Law in an Enlarged European Union: Understanding the Article 13 Directives, Cambridge U Press 2007.
• Quinn, G. ’The European Social Charter and EU Anti-discrimination Law – Two Force Fields with one Purpose’ in The Protection of Social Rights in Europe:  Changes and Challenges, edited by Gráinne de Búrca, Bruno de Witte and Larissa Ogertschnig (Oxford University Press, 2006). 
• Quinn, G.  ’The Globalisation of Disability Law: An American Invention – A Worldwide Challenge’ in International Library of Essays on Rights, (Blanck P (Ed.), Ashgate, (2005). 
• Quinn, G., Degener, T.,(Eds), Human Rights and Disability: The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of Disability,, Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, (2002),184 pages (published in English, French, Chinese, Spanish & Russian).
• Quinn G., Degener, T., ’A Survey of International, Comparative and Regional Disability Law Reform, (with Degener T) in Breslin & Yee (Eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives, (Transnational, NY, 2002), p3-129.  Now published with a separate Japanese translation (2004).

Forthcoming

• Quinn, G., & Arnardottir O, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives, Brill, 2008.
• Quinn, G.,  Poverty, Invisibility and Disability: the Liberating Potential of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,   in Van Buren, G., (Ed), Freedom from Poverty, (UNESCO, 2008).
• Quinn, Degener, Stein, Begg, Byrnes & Lord (Eds), The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Cambridge University Press, 2009.  

Recent Conference Papers

• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’ Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - The Institutional Architecture for Change’, Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United National Headquarters, New York City, 31 October, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as an Engine of Law Reform’, Swedish Presidency of the Council of Europe Conference on Disability, 30 October, Strasbourg, 2008.
• Quinn, G., ’The Monitoring Provision of the Un Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’,  Conference on Legal Measures to Ratify and Implement the CRPD, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 24 October, Geneva, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’The Right to Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities’, European Coalition for Community Living, Drammen, Oslo, 12 September 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: Future Prospects for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, Rehabilitation International Global Conference, Quebec City, 25 August, 2008.
• Quinn, G., ’Social Justice and Rights – the case of Disability’, American Bar Association conference, New York City, 9 August, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – the link with Philanthropy’, European Foundation Centre, Istanbul, 28 May, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’The Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities viewed from the United States’, YAI Annual Conference, New York City, 2 May, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: Monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, Cardiff University, 18 April, 2008.
• Quinn, G., Keynote Address: ’The Role of Service Providers under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, European Association of Service Providers (EASPD) 14 February, 2008, Rome.
• Quinn, G. Keynote Address: ’Disabled Persons as Market Actors’: European Commission, European Day of Persons with Disabilities, Brussels 3 December 2007.
• Quinn, G, Chair and facilitator of EU Ministerial Meeting: European Ministerial Conference on eAccessibility, Lisbon, 1 December 2007.

 

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