Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context

Mary Donnelly is Professor of Law at University College Cork, Ireland. Rosie Harding is Professor of Law and Society at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK.Ezgi Tascioglu is Lecturer at Keele Law School, UK.

• 1. Situating the Right to Enjoy Legal CapacityRosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK), Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland and Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK)PART ICHARTING THE CONCEPTUAL CONTOURS OF CAPACITY LAW2. Support Relationships in Law: Framing, Fictions and the Responsive StateMary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland)3. The Problem of Influence: Autonomy, Legal Capacity and the Risk of Theoretical IncoherenceAmanda Keeling (University of Leeds, UK)4. The Significance of Strong Evaluation and Narrativity in Supporting Capacity Camillia Kong (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)5. Functional Capacity Assessments by Healthcare Professionals: Problems and Mitigating StrategiesShaun O’Keeffe (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)6. Charting a Path to Non-coercive Mental Healthcare: The Rhizomatic Nature of Universal Legal Capacity andthe Support ParadigmSuzanne Doyle Guilloud (University of Bristol, UK)PART IIREFORMING CAPACITY LAW: MAKING, SHAPING AND INTERPRETING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS7. The (Contested) Role of the Academy in Activist Movements for Legal Capacity Reform: A Personal ReflectionEilionór Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)8. Enabling Supported Decision-Making in India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Learnings from a Low-Resource Country SettingSoumitra Pathare (ILS Law College, India) and Arjun Kapoor (ILS Law College, India)9. Reflections on the Reform of Spanish Civil Legislation on Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities Patricia Cuenca Gómez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)10. Adapting or Discarding the Status Quo? Supporting the Exercise of Legal Capacity in Scottish Law and PracticeJill Stavert (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)11. Performing Disability Rights: State Reporting and Turkey's (Non)Engagement with the CRPDEzgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK)PART IIISUPPORTING LEGAL CAPACITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE: BALANCING EMPOWERMENT AND SAFEGUARDS12. Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: Self-Determination in the Theory and Practice of Guardianship Law in FinlandAnna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)13. Autonomy, Capacity and Vulnerability: Making Decisions on Social Services for Persons with Dementia in SwedenTitti Mattsson (Lund University, Sweden)14. Law’s Legitimacy and Social Work Support in Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse Jaime Lindsey (University of Essex, UK)15. Putting the Pieces Together: Article 12, “Safeguarding” and the Right to Legal Capacity Margaret Isabel Hall (Simon Fraser University, Canada)16. Supporting Everyday Legal Capacity: Navigating the Complexities of Putting Rights into PracticeRosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK)

Necessary reading for those taking stock of the first wave of scholarship and activism, and working how best to move forward to enhancing the right to the enjoyment of legal capacity on an equal basis.