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Supporting everyday legal capacity:navigating the complexities of putting rights into practice
No full textCare and Relationality:Supported decision-making under the UN CRPD
No full textIn this chapter I explore the concept of relationality and the relevance of it for law relating to care. My focus is on mental capacity law and the problem of ‘best interests’, which the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have stated is not an appropriate standard for making decisions on behalf of people with cognitive disabilities. The chapter seeks to explore the conceptual links between care, relationality and supported decision-making by people with cognitive impairments that affect their decision-making abilities. It draws on two recent cases to show how supported decision-making under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which took effect in 2008, can work with the (best interests oriented) legislative scheme of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA). I argue that where best interests is re-interpreted to follow the will and preferences of the individual, through operationalising a relational approach to the legal subject, the seeming incompatibility between the CRPD and the MCA can be addressed in a way which takes a more accurate view of how decisions are made
Editorial Introduction: Recognizing and Celebrating Same-sex Relationships: Beyond the Normative Debate
No full textSupporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Ed. Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Tascioglu)
No full textThis collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice. Traditionally, decisions for persons found to lack capacity are made by others, generally without reference to the person, and this applies especially to those with cognitive and psycho-social disabilities. This book examines the difficulties in establishing effective and deliverable supported decision-making, concluding that approaches to capacity need to be informed by a grounded understanding of how it operates in 'real life' contexts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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