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Associate Professor in Law @MelbLawSchool and @NUIGLaw @IrishCentreHR, interested in Disability Rights, Legal Capacity Rights, Gender Justice, and Personhood.

Joined January 2010
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
Details now up for the 2025 Research Conference of the Disability, Law and Society Network of Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand in Sydney, co-organised by @chrismaylea @DrLindaSteele @annaarstein and myself. 10-12 December 2025. 🔗 law.unimelb.edu.au/accountab…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
"Legal Capacity & Gender" @annaarstein on current interpretations of the right to #legalcapacity, theories of #personhood from critical feminist, disability and queer theory; incl. a chapter on legal capacity for women, disabled women and gender minorities bit.ly/36d51hG
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
Marrying scholarship around consent/refusal to the lived experience people have will create synergies that should shed new light #VOICESconf
My new study on the right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making is out! Read it here: ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disabili…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
Disability & Sexual Expression: From the personal to the political a rights framework-Jax Brown #socialequity16
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Replying to @ymaker
Carer payment policy a double-edged sword?#disability #support #care #policy implications @ymaker #socialequity16 – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Maker: In parliamentary debates about carer income, care referred to as a 'burden' w/ dramatic costs, ie charity & tragedy #socialequity16
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
Rights give you the space for natural and organic relationships. #socialequity16
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43% of persons with a physical disability experience symptoms of mental health #socialequity16
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
Segregation and exclusion has come under the guise of care and protection of pwd : Prof Kayess #socialequity16