The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a modern human rights treaty with innovative components. It impacts on disability studies as well as human rights law. Two innovations are scrutinized in this article: the model of disability and the equality and discrimination concepts of the CRPD. It is argued that the…
Laws Template
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About the Laws format
Laws is a peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI, covering Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Judicial and Constitutional Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 819 papers, which have received 7,192 citations.
| Publisher | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Numbered (MDPI) Numbered — [1], [2] in the text 1. Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. Laws 2023, 12, 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Migration, Refugees, and Integration Judicial and Constitutional Studies Human Rights and Development Migration, Health and Trauma |
| ISSN | 2075-471X |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.99 |
| h-index | 38 |
| i10-index | 195 |
| Article processing charge | $1,299 |
| Open access | Yes — indexed in DOAJ |
| Top institutions publishing here | The University of Melbourne |
| Journal website | www.mdpi.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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Most-cited papers in Laws
Through its rapid production methods that supply the latest catwalk styles almost instantaneously to the high street, the fast fashion model has revolutionized the fashion industry, while generating a significant carbon footprint and a host of social concerns. Yet, the law is either slow or ineffective in promoting sustainability in a world obsessed with image…
The fashion industry has to play an important role in the path towards sustainability and the circular economy. Indeed, the fashion industry is a sector with a high environmental impact; it involves a very long and complicated supply chain, which is associated with large consumption of water and energy, use of chemical substances, water and…
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) was the first legally binding instrument explicitly focused on how human rights apply to people with disability. Amongst their obligations, consistent with the social model of disability, the Convention requires signatory nations to recognise that “…persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an…
As the debate about the need to clarify the content of the human right to science intensifies, this article assesses opportunities for opening a scholarly and policy dialogue on fair and equitable benefit-sharing between international human rights and biodiversity lawyers. To that end, the article contrasts the emerging conceptualizations of the right to science in…