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Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Associate Professor
Law
Legal capacity
equal recognition before the law
non-discrimination
consent
law
social sciences
government & law
rehabilitation
16 peace, justice and strong institutions
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake

 
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Law
 
Primary Interest
Social Justice
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Projects

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Thanks a bundle: making telecommunications services more accessible for people with decision-making impairments

2017 - 2019
Completed
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THRIVING COMMUNITIES: BETTER SUPPORT FOR CONSUMERS WITH DECISION-MAKING IMPAIRMENTS

2017 - 2018
Completed
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Unfitness to plead and indefinite detention of persons with cognitive impairments: addressing the legal barriers and creating appropriate alternative supports in the community

2015 - 2018
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Workshop for the Disability Human Rights Network (DHRN)

2015 - 2016
Completed

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Project Types

2

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

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Realising economic and social rights for children with communication and swallowing disability: Sustainable Development Goals 1, 8 and 10

Stephanie Weir, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Tricia Eadie, Keith McVilly

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

PURPOSE: This commentary describes the economic disempowerment of children with communication and/or swallowing disability and out..

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Relational Personhood: A new conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Erin O'Donnell, Joanne Watson, Rosemary Kayess

Journal article  |  2021  |  Griffith Law Review

People with disability have demanded the recognition of full legal personhood in order to realise their rights and to overcome dom..

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Supported Decision-Making in Criminal Proceedings: A Sociolegal Empirical Study

Piers Gooding, Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Disability Policy Studies

This article outlines a project in which supported decision-making (SDM) and broader support to exercise legal capacity were provi..

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Right to Legal Capacity: Debates and Legal Argument

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Legal Capacity & Gender: Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Book  |  2021

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Vulnerability Created by Legal Capacity Denials

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Introducing a Human Rights-based Disability Research Methodology

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Yvette Maker, Eilionoir Flynn, Olympia Ward, Ruby Bell, Theresia Degener

Journal article  |  2020  |  HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW

Research has the potential to be a powerful tool for the realisation of the rights of disabled people. However, antiquated researc..

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Right to legal capacity in therapeutic jurisprudence: Insights from critical disability theory and the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Jennifer Black

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY

This article addresses whether autonomy is being adequately protected within therapeutic jurisprudence models. It first outlines t..

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Enhancing Access and Support for Water Customers with Cognitive Disabilities: A Guide for Water Businesses

Yvette Maker, Alex Callahan, Bernadette McSherry, Jeannie Paterson, Lisa Brophy, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Report  |  2020

This document is designed to assist water businesses to maximise accessibility and support for customers in a manner that is consi..

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Implementing a Participatory Human Rights-Based Research Methodology: The Unfitness to Plead Project

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Piers Gooding, Sarah Mercer, Marlena Raymond, Bernadette McSherry

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Human Rights Practice

This article describes a novel action-research methodology that combines aspects of participatory methods and emancipatory princip..

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Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
Other Law and Legal Studies
Law in Context
International and Comparative Law
Community Services
Legal Systems
Policy and Administration
Health Services and Systems
Public Law
Gender Studies

News

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Breaking down COVID-19 barriers for people with disability

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Commonly, people with disability are thought of as inherently vulnerable. They aren’t. People with disability are strong, resourceful and r..

May 21, 2020
pursuit Article
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Unfit to plead: Imprisoned without conviction

Piers Gooding, Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

In 2001, nineteen-year-old Marlon Noble was charged with sexual offences against two young girls. If convicted, he would likely have served..

September 4, 2017
pursuit Article
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Restoring voice to people with cognitive disability

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Recently the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) ordered a Bendigo woman with schizophrenia to undergo 12 courses of electro..

August 17, 2017
pursuit Article
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Disability-based disadvantage – a life sentence?

Louis Andrews, Piers Gooding, Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

A new research project is investigating support systems that may help prevent disability-based disadvantage and discrimination in the crimi..

March 31, 2016
pursuit Article
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What Making a Murderer tells us about disability and disadvantage in criminal law

Piers Gooding, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Bernadette McSherry, Louis Andrews

This article contains spoilers. The most shocking moments of the true crime documentary Making a Murderer don’t involve its convicted-e..

February 9, 2016
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Researching disability

Bernadette McSherry, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Many people with disabilities face external barriers that prevent them participating fully in society. These barriers may stem from the phy..

February 2, 2016
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2012

Award for Law in Service of Human Needs

Popper Jones, CUNY School of Law
2011

MCF - Marie Curie Fellowship

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Law

Member

Law and Society Association

Member

Australian Disability Access to Justice Consortium

Founder And Chair

Disability Human Rights Research Network

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy, Law

National University of Ireland

Juris Doctorate, Law

City University of New York

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology

San Diego State University

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International Linkages

National University of Ireland

Ireland

Bochum University of Applied Sciences

Germany