This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-
determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National
University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of
the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the stories of people with
disabilities are combined with responses from scholars, activists and practitioners,
addressing four key areas: criminal responsibility, contracts, consent to sex, and consent to …

This edited collection is the culmination of the 'VOICES'(Voices of Individuals Collectively
Exploring Self-Determination) project, a three-year undertaking led by Professor Eilionóir
Flynn of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI, Galway, Ireland) that explored and
sought to change the law regarding legal capacity, and the right to equal recognition before
the law, for people with disabilities (broadly defined as the right to make decisions with legal
consequences, and to have these decisions respected in law; as enshrined in Article 12 of …