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Olivier Giraud

Olivier Giraud is a research director at the CNRS. He was co-director of Lise (2013-2018), a research centre he joined in 2011 after having been a researcher at CURAPP, CEE and the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin). A specialist in comparative public policy, he works in particular on gender regimes in France and Germany, public policies for the care of the elderly at the European level, as well as on the issues of care at the local and global levels.

In addition, Olivier Giraud has participated in the ANR ZOGRIS and the ANR Marianne 2. He coordinated with Barbara Rist the research project (2016-2019): “Remuneration and status of care-givers: Life course, family transactions and types of use of support systems” (CNSA funding).

Rosemary Kayess

Rosemary Kayess is a leading human rights lawyer from Australia. She has demonstrated extensive leadership in the field of disability research and disability rights. She has contributed greatly to human rights and discrimination law both nationally and internationally.

In 1995, she became chairperson of the Australian Centre for Disability Law. She was appointed as a designated expert to the Australian Government delegation which contributed to the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2018, Kayess was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, becoming vice-chair in 2019. In the same year, Rosemary was awarded the Human Rights Medal by the Australian Human Rights Commission. She has recently been elected Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2021.

She is currently teaching as a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law (UNSW, Australia).

Among her most important publications, in 2008 she co-wrote with P. J. French the groundbreaking article : “Out of Darkness into Light? Introducing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” (Human Rights Law Review).

Eva Feder Kittay

Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at Stony Brook University, New York. Kittay’s research focuses on feminist philosophy and ethics, social and political theory, and disability studies. She is internationally recognized as one of the most prominent contributors to the ethics of care, starting with her Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Routledge, 1999).

With her works on care and disability, especially cognitive disability, and their significance for philosophical and political thought, Kittay opened new perspectives in contemporary moral philosophy as well as in disability studies. Among several publications, she edited with Licia Carlson Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2010); with Ellen K. Feder, The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002); and with Anita Silvers and Susan Wendell a Special Issue of Hypatia on Feminism and Disability (I, Vol. 16, No. 4 Fall 2001 – II, Vol. 17, No. 1 Winter 2002).

Kittay’s most recent book, Learning from My Daughter. The Value and Care of Disabled Minds (Oxford University Press, 2019), provides a discussion both theoretical and personal of cognitive disability, which questions the centrality traditionally attributed to normalcy as part of a good life, and critically interrogates the conception of the personhood of disabled people which lie within discussions on bioethical matters such as prenatal testing.

Paul Lemmens

Paul Lemmens is Full Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and former Belgian judge at the European Court of Human Rights (2012-2021). Currently, he serves back as Councillor in the Belgian Council of State. His numerous writings focus on the European Convention on Human Rights and the scope of fundamental rights, such as the right to equality, freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial.

In relation to the Alter 2022 Conference theme, his participation in the drafting of a Belgian report on mental health and fundamental rights (2009) and a separate opinion in the case of Caamaño Valle v. Spain (judgment of May 11, 2021) concerning the right to vote of persons with mental disorders are noteworthy.

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