Oliver Lewis

Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers 執業大律師

Oliver Lewis is barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London, practising public law with a focus on disability rights, including litigation in the Court of Protection, the Coroners Court and mental health tribunals and international human rights law. He has a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, where he is a member of the Centre for Disability Studies and teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate disability law classes and a module entitled ‘Global human rights advocacy’. Before returning to legal practice in the UK in 2017 he was Executive Director of Validity (formerly the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre MDAC), an international NGO that uses law to advance rights of people with mental health issues or intellectual disabilities worldwide. In this role he oversaw strategic litigation at the European Court of Human Rights and advocacy before UN treaty bodies. His PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands, was on legal capacity and international human rights law. Oliver has published widely on the intersection of disability, mental health and human rights, including the 2007 book “Mental disability and the European Convention on Human Rights” with Peter Bartlett and Oliver Thorold. His email address is o.lewis@doughtystreet.co.uk and he tweets from @DrOliverLewis.

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​Lewis 博士是一位法律實踐經驗豐富的律師，他在倫敦Doughty Street Chambers（律師事務所）執業，專注身心受障者權利，參與保護法院、死因裁判法庭和精神健康法庭、國際人權法等訴訟。他是利茲大學客席教授，教導「法律與社會公義」，也是該大學殘疾人研究中心的成員，教授有關殘疾法律的課程。回到英國執業之前，Lewis教授是匈牙利精神受障者倡導中心（MDAC）的執行總監，有十五年在東歐各國推動精神健康領域上制度轉型的經驗，且在東歐多國取得廢除成人監護的法律改革成果。擔任該組織執行總監期間，他負責監督歐洲人權法院的策略訴訟，對聯合國各項人權公約進行游說。他在荷蘭萊頓（Leiden）大學獲得博士學位，專注研究法律能力和國際人權法。Lewis教授在殘疾、心理健康和人權領域上發表廣泛文章，包括2007年出版，與Peter Bartlett 和Oliver Thorold合著的《精神受障與歐洲人權公約》。電郵：o.lewis@doughtystreet.co.uk，Twitter賬號@DrOliverLewis

Sharon Primor

Legal Counsel at The Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities 以色列殘疾人權利中心（Bizchut）的法律顧問

Sharon Primor is the Legal Counsel at Bizchut, The Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities. She specializes in the human rights of people with different kinds of disabilities, and promotes their rights to equality, inclusion, autonomy and due process. Her most recent area of expertise relates to human rights violations in psychiatric hospitals. Primor spearheaded the civil societies’ campaign of 2016 to abolish restraints and seclusions for psychiatric hospitals in Israel.

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Primor女士是以色列殘疾人權利中心（Bizchut）的法律顧問。她專門研究不同特色身心受障者的人權，並促進他們享有平等、包容、自治和正當程序的權利。她最近的專業領域涉及精神病院的侵犯人權行為。 Primor帶領民間社會2016年的運動，廢除以色列精神病醫院的限制和隔離。

Michael Bach

Managing Director, IRIS – Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society  融合與社會發展與研究所（IRIS）常務董事

For the past thirty years Michael Bach has undertaken research and development in Canada and internationally on ways to advance the full inclusion and human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities. For fifteen years he directed the Canadian Association for Community Living, the national advocacy association for people labelled with an intellectual disability and their families. His publications cover disability theory, policy and practice in a range of areas including the right to equality in legal capacity, inclusive education, the right to work, and development of community-based supports.  He has recently completed an Open Society Foundations Fellowship, which continued his international comparative research on the right to equality in legal capacity for people with significant intellectual disabilities.

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過去三十年，Bach 博士致力於加拿大和國際上發展並開發，關於促進殘疾人全面社會共融與實踐權利的社會發展研究。而最近十五年，Bach 博士領導加拿大社區生活協會（一個國家層面為被標籤為智障人士的人及其家人提供服務及倡導的協會）進行研究及發展工作。他的出版物涵蓋了一系列領域的殘疾理論，政策和實踐，包括法律能力平等權、全納（共融）教育、工作權和社區支援發展等。他最近完成了一個開放社會基金會的獎學金項目，該獎學金支持他繼續就有重大智障人士的法律能力平等權利議題，進行全面的國際比較研究。