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Prof. Gerard Quinn B.A.,LL.B.,LL.M.,S.J.D.
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Biography:
| 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 the Commonwealth Secretariat, SOROS-OSI (Washington, DC), Disability Rights Fund (Boston, MA), European Foundation Centre Consortium on Disability(Brussels), European Coalition for Community Living (London), Interights (London). In January 2012 President Michael D. Higgins appointed Professor Quinn to the Republic of Ireland’s Council of State. |
Books
| O’Mahony, C & Quinn, G (eds) (2013) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Comparative, Regional and Thematic Perspectives. Belgium: Intersentia. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2009) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives. : Nijhof, Brill. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| O’Mahony, C & Quinn, G (2012) '‘Disability and Human Rights: A New Field in the United Nations’' In: Krause, C & Scheinin, M (eds). International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook. Turku: Åbo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights. [Details] |
| Quinn, G & Arstein-Kerslake, A (2012) 'Restoring the Human in Human Rights: Personhood and doctronal innovation in the UN disability convention' In: Conor Gearty & Costas Douzinas (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2006) 'The Legal Status of the European Social Charter: Taking Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human Rights Seriously' In: The State of International Treaties and Human Rights. Strasbourg: Venice Commisson. [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2007) 'Dangerous Constitutional Moments: The Tactic of Legality in Nazi Germany and the Irish Free State Compared' In: Judges, Transition and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2009) 'Disability and Human Rights: a New Field in the United Nations' In: Krause, C; Scheinin, M (eds). International Protection of Human Rights: a Textbook' (Abo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights Turku/Abo Finland). [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2007) 'Disability Discrimination Law in the European Union' In: Meenan, H (eds). Equality Law in an 'Enlarged European Union: Understanding the Article 13 Directives '. Cambridge University Press. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2006) 'The European Social Charter and EU Anti-discrimination Law - Two Force Fields withone Purpose' In: De Búrca,G; De Witte,B; Ogertschnig,L (eds). The Protection of Social Rights in Europe: Changes and Challenges. Oxford University Press. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2006) 'The Legal Status of the European Social Charter: Taking Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human Rights Seriously' In: The State of International Treaties and Human Rights (Venice Commission Council of Europe, Strasbourg). [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2006) 'The Globalisation of Disability Law: An American Invention - A Worldwide Challenge' In: Blanck,P (eds). International Library of Essays on Rights. Ashgate. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2002) 'Human Rights and Disability: The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of Disability' In: Quinn,G; Degener,T (eds). Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations, Geneva. [Details] |
| Quinn,G: Degener,T. (2002) 'A Survey of International Comparative and Regional Disability Law Reform' In: Breslin; Yee (eds). Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives. Transnational, NY. [Details] |
| Quinn, G, Quinlivan, S. (2000) 'Disability Discrimination: The Need to Amend the Employment Equality Act' In: Light of the EU Framework Directive on Employment In Costello, C., Barry, E. Equality in Diversity: The New Equality Directives, (Irish Centre for European Law, 2003). Dublin: Irish Centre for European Law. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2000) 'The Draft EU Charter on Human Rights, Issues and Perspectives' In: House of Lords. [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (1998) 'The Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities under EU Law' In: Alston,P (eds). The EU and Human Rights'. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Quinn, G., Waddington, L. & Flynn, E., (Eds) (Ed.). (2012) European Yearbookk of Disability Law, Voume 3 (2012). Belgium: Intersentia. [Details] |
| Quinn, G. & Waddington, L., (Eds) (Ed.). (2010) European Yearbook on Disability Law, Volume 2 (2009). Belgium: Intersentia. [Details] |
| Quinn, G. & Waddington, L., (Eds) (Ed.). (2009) European Yearbook of Disability Law. Belgium: Intersentia. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Quinn, G,Flynn, E (2012) 'Transatlantic Borrowings: The Past and Future of EU Non-Discrimination Law and Policy on the Ground of Disability'. American Journal Of Comparative Law, 60 :23-48. [DOI] [Details] |
| Quinn,G. (2009) 'The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Towards a New International Politics of Disability'. Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, 16 :33-53. [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2009) 'Bringing the UN Convention on rights for persons with disabilities to life in Ireland'. British Journal Of Learning Disabilities, 37 :245-249. [DOI] [Details] |
Other Journals
| Quinn, G. (2012) 'Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Seriously: The Past & Future of EU Structural Funds' Equal Rights Reiew 9 . [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Quinn, G. (2007) How European Disability Evolved - Lessons for China Address at Opening of Renmin Law School, Centre on Disability Law and Policy Beijing, China, [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The CRPD - how it can drive change and the role of the Conference of State Parties United Nations, First Session of the Conference of State Parties under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities UN Headquarters, New York City, [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2009) The Importance of National Monitoring Mechanisms under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Address to the New Zealand Parliment Wellington, New Zealand, [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2009) The future of European Legal Capacity Law & Policy European Foundation Centre, Consortium of Philanthropies on Human Rights and Disabilities Brussels, [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2010) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Implications for persons with Intellectual Disabilities Jo Mills Memorial Lecture, 10th World Down Syndrome Congress [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2010) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Towards a New Unified Field Theory of Disability Law Socity of India, Pandit Memorial Lecture Pune, India, [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2012) Toward a New US/EU Dialogue on Disability US International Council on Disability (USICD) [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2007) Keynote Address: ’Disabled Persons as Market Actors’ European Commission, European Day of Persons with Disabilities [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2007) Chair and facilitator of EU Ministerial Meeting European Ministerial Conference on eAccessibility [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) Keynote Address: ’The Role of Service Providers under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ European Association of Service Providers (EASPD) [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - the link with Philanthropy European Foundation Centre, Istanbul [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) 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 [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) Keynote Address: Monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Cardiff University [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) Social Justice and Rights - the case of Disability American Bar Association conference, New York City [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) Keynote Address: Future Prospects for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitieS Rehabilitation International Global Conference [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) The Right to Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities European Coalition for Community Living, Drammen, Oslo [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) 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 [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2008) 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 [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2009) Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - The Institutional Architecture for Change Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, NFB Headquarters Baltimore, Maryland [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2009) Peter Wall Institute Exploratory Workshop, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Rethinking Personhood - New Directions in Legal Capacity, Law and Policy [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2010) Personhood & Legal Capacity Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift of Article 12 CRPD HPOD Conference, Harvard Law School [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2010) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - what role for Philanthropy? International Human Rights Funders Group, San Francisco [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2010) Towards a new Model of Supported Decision making for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Loyola Law School of Los Angeles Conference on disability law [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2011) Indepenedent Living and the UN Disability Convention Seminar for Israeli Disability NGOs [Details] |
| Quinn, G (2011) before the Irish Senate - Committee on Public Consultation, hearing on a UN Convention the Rights of Older People Hearing of the Irish Senate [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2012) The Evolution of a Comonwealth Strategy on Disability - Refelections on Key Reform Challenges Commonwealth Conference on Disability, London [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2011) Thinking Strategically about Disability Litigation Interights Seminar [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2011) Some Reflections on the Impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Supporting Citizenship - The Future of Services for Persons with Disabilites in Ireland; The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2011) Taking Personhood Seriously: Legal Capacity Law Reform and the UN Disability Convention Newfoundland and Labrador Association for Community Living Symposium [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2011) Personhood and Disability University of British Columbia, Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2010) Monitoring: Article 33 of the UN Disability Convention European Commission Work Forum [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as an Engine of Law Reform Protecting and Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Europe’, Council of Europe [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The CRPD - how it can drive change and the role of the Conference of States Parties United Nations, First Session of the Conference of States Parties under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8 [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2007) The UN Convention on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a Trigger for Worldwide Law Reform German EU Presidency Ministerial Conference on ‘Empowering Persons with Disabilities [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2007) Human Rights and Intellectual Disability - a Matter for All International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSD), 2nd South American Regional Conference [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2004) Reflection Paper on the future of EU non-discrimination law and policy European Commission Conference on Article 13 Directives, Prague, 'Walking the Talk - Equal Rights in an Enlarged Union' [Details] |
Published Reports
| Quinn, G & Doyle, S (2012) Getting a Life: Living Independently and being included in the Community. United Nations, Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights European Office. [Details] |
Conference Paper
| Quinn, G. (2008) The Role of Service Providers under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. European Association of Service Providers (EASPD). Rome, Italy: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) Monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Cardiff University Wales. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) 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, USA: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) 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. Geneva, Switzerland: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The Right to Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities. European Coalition for Community Living. Drammen, Oslo, Norway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) 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. Strasbourg, France: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) Social Justice and Rights - the case of Disability. American Bar Association conference. New York City, NY, USA: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - the link with Philanthropy. European Foundation Centre. Istanbul, Turkey: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) Future Prospects for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Rehabilitation International Global Conference. Quebec City, Canada: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2008) The Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities viewed from the United States. YAI Annual Conference. New York City, NY, USA: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2007) European Ministerial Conference on eAccessibility . Lisbon, Portugal: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Quinn, G. (2007) Disabled Persons as Market Actors. European Commission, European Day of Persons with Disabilities. Brussels, Belgium: Conference Paper [Details] |
Media
| O'Connell, D, Quinn, G. (1995) Symbolic day for European law should prompt review of Irish rights. Nadia Bernaz, Le droit international et la peine de mort, Paris: La documentation française. Media [Details] |
Non Published Reports
| Quinn, G & Doyle, S (2012) Getting a Life - Living Independently and Being Included in the Community A Legal Study of the Current Use and Future Potential of the EU Structural Funds to Contribute to the Achievement of Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Regional Office for Europe), Brussels. Non Published Reports [Details] |
| Quinn, G, Degener, T, Quinlivan, S. (2002) Human Rights and Disability, The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of Disability. Non Published Reports [Details] |
Teaching Interests
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