Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Associate Professor in Law @MelbLawSchool and @NUIGLaw @IrishCentreHR, interested in Disability Rights, Legal Capacity Rights, Gender Justice, and Personhood.

[Piers Gooding @P_Gooding]

Details now up for the 2025 Research Conference of the Disability, Law and Society Network of Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand in Sydney, co-organised by @chrismaylea @DrLindaSteele @annaarstein and myself. 10-12 December 2025.
🔗 https://t.co/Jd0neTfWUG

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

I spoke on Galway Talks this morning on Galway Bay FM about the recently leaked US Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v Wade. https://t.co/cnmQ5bTmSh @GalwayTalks

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

On Wed April 6th we are launching the #QueerHumanRightsSeminarSeries at the Irish Centre for Human Rights! Attorneys Lucas Cameron-Vaughn and Casey Bryant will speak about 'Queer Human Rights in Practice'. All welcome, please register at https://t.co/0X2E6e1PBz

[SpringerLaw @SpringerLaw]

"Legal Capacity & Gender" @annaarstein on current interpretations of the right to #legalcapacity, theories of #personhood from critical feminist, disability and queer theory; incl. a chapter on legal capacity for women, disabled women and gender minorities https://t.co/vq1qPwBSSe

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

I wrote this short piece for Pursuit, the University of Melbourne's online content platform - I wanted to shed a little light on how COVID-19 is creating barriers for people with disability - "Breaking down COVID-19 barriers for people with disability" https://t.co/Toe5RqswcS

[Melbourne Social Equity Institute @MSEI_UniMelb]

A new blog post from Senior Research Associate @ymaker – Care, Support and #COVID19 https://t.co/aCI0xjhhCB

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

Wonderful experience being interviewed by @JaneRichardsHK for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast about my 2017 book, Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities (Cambridge University Press). https://t.co/6B4PXkHPff

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

@P_Gooding @NUIGCDLP @RosemaryKayess @eilionoirflynn Great picture. Great summer school. Great people! I hope we all get to sing folk songs together again soon :)

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

Activists, academics, people with lived experience and others explore self-determination rights #VOICESconf

[ERC VOICES @ercvoices]

Marrying scholarship around consent/refusal to the lived experience people have will create synergies that should shed new light #VOICESconf

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

Happy to be at the first conference of the VOICES Project! @ercvoices https://t.co/slhlA0SUqW

[UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn @SR_Disability]

My new study on the right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making is out! Read it here: https://t.co/q1fJOYUKqf

[Bernadette McSherry @bmcsherr]

New research: positive assumptions re ability of ppl with #disabilities to make own decisions absolutely essential. https://t.co/giol5WuOqv

[Jo Watson @JoWat]

Important article @bmcsherr @P_Gooding @annaarstein thank you https://t.co/9JQcu7540K

[Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo @McNhlapo]

Disability & Sexual Expression: From the personal to the political a rights framework-Jax Brown #socialequity16

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

We have failed if we do not bring everyone along - Katharine Annear #socialequity16

[Kelly Hutchinson 💡+👩🏽‍💻=⭐️ @kelhutchinson]

Carer payment policy a double-edged sword?#disability #support #care #policy implications @ymaker #socialequity16

[Piers Gooding @P_Gooding]

Maker: In parliamentary debates about carer income, care referred to as a 'burden' w/ dramatic costs, ie charity & tragedy #socialequity16

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

Amazing presentation by Tass Holmes (UoM) on Mental Health Healing Through Complementary Medicine #socialequity16

[Anna Arstein-Kerslake @annaarstein]

Jurys represent a microcosm of society and we all have a right to participate - Ron McCallum #socialequity16