Michael Stein (JD ‘88), Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, on some recent work

“The Harvard Law School Project on Disability continues to work across the globe to implement disability human rights and develop disability civil society in collaboration with local partners. We have been providing human rights training, developing family support networks to assist children with disabilities enter school, assisting in legislation drafting, building disability law capacity in foreign universities, and bringing litigation in numerous countries, including Bangladesh, China, the Philippines and South Africa. Our reports on violence against women with disabilities in Bangladesh will be utilized by the United Nations and the US State Department in official reports. We also were involved in winning two significant cases, a European Court of Human Rights decision overturning Hungary’s blanket prohibition on voting by mentally disabled persons, and a South African High Court ruling upholding the right of children with intellectual disabilities to public education.”