Matthew S Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4987117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew S Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School , Cambridge, MA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7261-4149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has positively impacted the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Overall, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments in favour of persons with disabilities and is moving towards a disability-sensitive interpretation of facts. However, in specific areas such as legal capacity, inclusive education, voting, and involuntary treatment, the ECtHR has sharply distanced itself from…
How Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Are Fighting for Decision-Making Rights
Paternalistic attitudes about what is in the interests of a person with an intellectual disability have long led to abuses, and are embedded in the guardianship laws still in place in most countries. Self-advocates, who identify as people with intellectual or other disabilities and are committed to demanding their rights and educating others about them, are calling for a new approach. They have found support for reforms in the Convention on the R…
Lessons from United States school district policies and approaches to special education during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many school districts in countries around the world transitioning rapidly to partial or complete remote learning. These disruptions affected all children’s education, but students with disabilities (SWDs) were particularly at-risk because of the challenges of providing accessible support and services through remote teaching programmes. We examine the experience of SWDs in 24 United States school districts of inst…
Connecting the Right of Collective Legal Capacity by Indigenous Peoples with the Right of Individual Legal Capacity by Persons with Disabilities
This Article explores the juridical implications of indigenous peoples’ right to legal capacity in the Inter-American system for cases involving the same right of persons with disabilities within that system and beyond. It explicates the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR) three-factor test in Saramaka People v Suriname and analogizes its reasoning with rationales underpinning the right to legal capacity under the United Nations Conven…
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has positively impacted the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Overall, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments in favour of persons with disabilities and is moving towards a disability-sensitive interpretation of facts. However, in specific areas such as legal capacity, inclusive education, voting, and involuntary treatment, the ECtHR has sharply distanced itself from…
Connecting the Right of Collective Legal Capacity by Indigenous Peoples with the Right of Individual Legal Capacity by Persons with Disabilities
This Article explores the juridical implications of indigenous peoples’ right to legal capacity in the Inter-American system for cases involving the same right of persons with disabilities within that system and beyond. It explicates the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR) three-factor test in Saramaka People v Suriname and analogizes its reasoning with rationales underpinning the right to legal capacity under the United Nations Conven…
How Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Are Fighting for Decision-Making Rights
Paternalistic attitudes about what is in the interests of a person with an intellectual disability have long led to abuses, and are embedded in the guardianship laws still in place in most countries. Self-advocates, who identify as people with intellectual or other disabilities and are committed to demanding their rights and educating others about them, are calling for a new approach. They have found support for reforms in the Convention on the R…
Lessons from United States school district policies and approaches to special education during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many school districts in countries around the world transitioning rapidly to partial or complete remote learning. These disruptions affected all children’s education, but students with disabilities (SWDs) were particularly at-risk because of the challenges of providing accessible support and services through remote teaching programmes. We examine the experience of SWDs in 24 United States school districts of inst…
Disability human rights standards before the European Court of Human Rights—false convergence and methodologically-driven divergence
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has positively impacted the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Overall, the ECtHR has delivered significant judgments in favour of persons with disabilities and is moving towards a disability-sensitive interpretation of facts. However, in specific areas such as legal capacity, inclusive education, voting, and involuntary treatment, the ECtHR has sharply distanced itself from…
Political science (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Convention (2 works) · Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2 works) · Discrimination and Equality Law (2 works) · Human Rights and Development (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)