Associate Professor in Law @MelbLawSchool and @NUIGLaw @IrishCentreHR, interested in Disability Rights, Legal Capacity Rights, Gender Justice, and Personhood.
Joined January 2010
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
18 Jul 2025
Details now up for the 2025 Research Conference of the Disability, Law and Society Network of Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand in Sydney, co-organised by @chrismaylea @DrLindaSteele @annaarstein and myself. 10-12 December 2025.
🔗 law.unimelb.edu.au/accountab…
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4 May 2022
I spoke on Galway Talks this morning on Galway Bay FM about the recently leaked US Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v Wade. galwaybayfm.ie/podcasts/galw… @GalwayTalks
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1 Apr 2022
On Wed April 6th we are launching the #QueerHumanRightsSeminarSeries at the Irish Centre for Human Rights! Attorneys Lucas Cameron-Vaughn and Casey Bryant will speak about 'Queer Human Rights in Practice'. All welcome, please register at bit.ly/3DsE1Kn
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
26 Jan 2021
"Legal Capacity & Gender" @annaarstein on current interpretations of the right to #legalcapacity, theories of #personhood from critical feminist, disability and queer theory; incl. a chapter on legal capacity for women, disabled women and gender minorities bit.ly/36d51hG
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24 May 2020
I wrote this short piece for Pursuit, the University of Melbourne's online content platform - I wanted to shed a little light on how COVID-19 is creating barriers for people with disability - "Breaking down COVID-19 barriers for people with disability" pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
22 Apr 2020
A new blog post from Senior Research Associate @ymaker – Care, Support and #COVID19 socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/…
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7 Apr 2020
Wonderful experience being interviewed by @JaneRichardsHK for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast about my 2017 book, Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities (Cambridge University Press). newbooksnetwork.com/anna-ars…
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26 Feb 2016
Activists, academics, people with lived experience and others explore self-determination rights #VOICESconf
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
26 Feb 2016
Marrying scholarship around consent/refusal to the lived experience people have will create synergies that should shed new light #VOICESconf
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26 Feb 2016
Happy to be at the first conference of the VOICES Project! @ercvoices x.com/sarahlennon08/status/7…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
18 Feb 2016
My new study on the right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making is out! Read it here: ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disabili…
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
20 Feb 2016
New research: positive assumptions re ability of ppl with #disabilities to make own decisions absolutely essential. x.com/JoWat/status/700675742…
@SueBalandin #Supporteddecisionmaking & people with severe cognitive disability @deakin_DI @bmcsherr @SueBalandin mdpi.com/2075-471X/5/1/6
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9 Feb 2016
What Making a Murderer tells us about disability and disadvantage in criminal law theconversation.com/what-mak… @LIDSLaTrobe @3DN_UNSW @JoWat
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
4 Feb 2016
Disability & Sexual Expression: From the personal to the political a rights framework-Jax Brown #socialequity16
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
5 Feb 2016
Carer payment policy a double-edged sword?#disability #support #care #policy implications @ymaker #socialequity16
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake retweeted
5 Feb 2016
Maker: In parliamentary debates about carer income, care referred to as a 'burden' w/ dramatic costs, ie charity & tragedy #socialequity16
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5 Feb 2016
Amazing presentation by Tass Holmes (UoM) on Mental Health Healing Through Complementary Medicine #socialequity16
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4 Feb 2016
Jurys represent a microcosm of society and we all have a right to participate - Ron McCallum #socialequity16
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4 Feb 2016
The General Comment on Article 12 CRPD is a step forward in a process toward change. - Ron McCallum #socialequity16 @eilionoirflynn
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