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An empowering dependency: exploring support for the exercise of legal capacity

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 18 (2016): Issue 1

By: Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Open Access

|Aug 2016

Abstract

The Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities specifies that people with disabilities have the right to enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others and an accompanying duty of states parties to provide access to support for exercising legal capacity. This article uses moral philosophy to ground a discussion of personhood and supported decision-making. It discusses the cognitive prosthesis model as a possible structure for supported decision-making and identifies the potential strengths and weaknesses of such a system. In particular, it examines the effect dependency relationships will have on supported decision-making. It concludes with four principles for safeguarding the relationship of supported decision-making.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2014.941926 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 77 - 92

Submitted on: Dec 2, 2013

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Accepted on: Mar 13, 2014

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Published on: Aug 1, 2016

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

legal capacity,

supported decision-making,

moral philosophy,

© 2016 Anna Arstein-Kerslake, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 18 (2016): Issue 1