UN CRPD: equal recognition before the law

Equal before the Bar

I never intended to take a special role on the team or to become the story, but that’s what happened. By the end of the day, I had found the suspect in the Global Tag Challenge (I. Rahwan, et al., “Global Manhunt Pushes the Limits of Social Mobilization,” pp. 68-75) and was subsequently accused of demonstrating why crowdsourcing doesn’t work. I had become interested in crowdsourcing when people...

The (Un)equal Tangents Problem

Given a point A outside of a closed strictly convex plane curve γ, there are two tangent segments from A to γ, the left and the right ones, looking from point A. Problem: Does there exist a curve γ such that one can walk around it so that, at all moments, the right tangent segment is smaller than the left one? In other words, does there exist a pair of simple closed curves, γ and Γ, the former ...

Impact of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN-CRPD) on mental health care research - a systematic review

BACKGROUND The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) aims at stimulating profound changes and social development in many areas of the society. We wanted to examine the impact of the convention on mental health care research up to now by a systematic review. METHODS We searched relevant electronic databases for empirical studies from the area of mental ...

Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets

Tom Regan's Seafaring Dog and (Un)Equal Inherent Worth

Tom Regan's seafaring dog that is justifiably thrown out of the lifeboat built for four to save the lives of four humans has been the topic of much discussion. Critics have argued in a variety of ways that this dog nips at Regan's achilles heel. Without reviewing previous discussions, with much of which I certainly agree, I wish to develop an unexplored approach to exposing the vulnerability of...