Experimentalism and the Limits of Uploading: The EU and the UN Disability Convention
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While the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which was the first major international human rights treaty to be signed by the EU, has a notably experimentalist character, the participation of the EU does not seem to have been a strong determinant of these elements of the Convention. Instead, the experimentalist character of the CRPD seems to be explained largely by the prominent role played by disabled persons, disability NGOs, and national human rights institutions within the negotiation process. The EU appears to have treated the international negotiations and treaty-making process as a potential channel for ‘uploading’ its own preferred position, and its own disability-discrimination regime. Nevertheless, the EU has, since the coming into force of the CRPD, been quite active in ‘downloading’ this instrument, implementing the Convention and its provisions within EU law and policy.
Source Publication
Extending Experimentalist Governance?: The European Union and Transnational Regulation
Source Editors/Authors
Jonathan Zeitlin
Publication Date
2015
Recommended Citation
de Búrca, Gráinne, "Experimentalism and the Limits of Uploading: The EU and the UN Disability Convention" (2015). Faculty Chapters. 317.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/317
