Alex Green Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
His biography of Dr. Walter E. Fernald tells a tale of innovation, discrimination, and recantation that resonates today.
Professor William Alford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
American Association of Law Schools recognizes HPOD Chair
Self-Advocacy Is about Belonging
Moving beyond “living in” the community
Persons with Disabilities’ Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Reflections on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (in Spanish and in English)
Major Changes to U.S. Disability Law and Policy Continue
Anticipating the likely consequences for the disability community of the largest-ever cuts to Medicaid
Promoting the Dignity of Persons with Disabilities throughout the World
HPOD’s Founders Reflect on over 20 Years of Scholarship and Advocacy
Accountability for Mass Institutionalization of Persons with Disabilities
Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions demands apology from Governor, among other critical reforms
What to Know and Do about Ongoing Changes to U.S. Disability Law and Policy
In recent months, sweeping changes to federal laws and policies in the United States have impacted persons with disabilities, their families, and their allies. Additional consequential changes are likely to come, threatening hard-fought disability rights gains promoting community inclusion, health care, public education, and basic human dignity. What to Know Already, the White House has canceled diversity […]
Making Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ Voices Heard before United Nations Treaty Bodies
Opportunities to enhance self-advocates’ role in shadow reporting
Ensuring Older Persons’ Human Rights
UN Human Rights Council sets the stage for expanding the international human rights legal framework
Anne Fracht Receives Career Achievement Award
In recognition of her decades-long advocacy and leadership on behalf of persons with intellectual disabilities
Wading into the Mainstream
Building disability rights bridges across institutional silos to strengthen the global sustaining peace agenda
Persons with Disabilities and the Slave Trade
Professors Michael Stein and Janet Lord discuss opportunities for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to address critical gaps
Voting and Disability Rights
Safeguarding persons with disabilities’ right to full and effective political participation
Describing Disability Climate Justice at the G7 Ministerial Meeting
Professor Michael Stein urges G7 leaders to take disability-inclusive climate action
Immigrants with Disabilities
Enabling international legal protections
Announcing HPOD’s 2024-25 Annual Fellows and Visiting Scholar
Projects will tackle climate justice, institutionalization, self-advocacy, legal capacity, and violence against women
Education for All
The Dominican Republic’s pioneering inclusive education policy
Visibilizing Intellectual Disability in the Classroom
How HPOD is working to create opportunities for Harvard University students to learn from persons with intellectual disabilities
Inclusive Accountability
The current state of international criminal law and disability
In Memory of Sir Robert Martin
How self-advocates can contribute to international human rights governance
Disability-Inclusive Climate Action, Research and Development
Global Disability Climate Justice Working Group urges researchers and policymakers to meet the moment
Dr. Cui Fengming Honored by the Charles River Center
Recognizing over a decade of disability rights advocacy and scholarship
Towards Effective Human Rights Protections for Older Persons
Building on UNITAR’s Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing 2023 roundtables
Promoting Disability-Inclusive Climate Action through Litigation
HPOD and allies urge Inter-American Court on Human Rights to take notice of evolving international standards
Experiences of Group Home Residents with Intellectual Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Self-advocate researchers shine a light on under-explored story
Professor Michael Ashley Stein Honored by US International Council on Disability
The Dole-Harkin Award recognizes Professor Stein’s unique contributions to international disability rights
Private Citizens’ Role in Enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act
HPOD’s Professor Stein previews oral arguments in Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer before the U.S. Supreme Court
Announcing HPOD’s 2023-24 Annual Fellows
Projects will tackle intersections with race, criminal law, institutionalization, health care, and global peace and security
Youth with Disabilities in Action
Spreading the word about alternatives to guardianship
Professor Michael Ashley Stein Honored by Harvard University
Receives inaugural Excellence in Accessibility and Inclusion Faculty Award
HPOD Fellow Alex Green Receives Marie Feltin Award
Boston Center for Independent Living’s Annual Honor for Excellence in Advocacy and Service
Anne Fracht Appointed to Special Commission on State Institutions
Person with disability-led body will reckon with Massachusetts’ legacy of institutionalization
Disability & Sexual Violence
Women with disabilities global struggle for their right to intimacy
The Right to Marry
Barriers to intimacy for persons with disabilities
Honoring Judy Heumann
Founding mother of the U.S. disability rights movement
Towards Disability-Inclusive Climate Resilience
What researchers can do to close the disability climate change equity gap
War Crime and No Punishment?
Gaps in International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Persons with Disabilities
Right to Education for Students with Disabilities
The Limits of Litigation
Disability and Climate Change
Call for Digital Symposium Submissions
COVID-19 Experiences of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Group Homes
Self-Advocate Researchers’ Reflections
The Right to Be Involved in Politics
What Self-Advocates Should Know
Self-Determination & Voting
Self-Advocates, Get Out There and Make Your Voices Heard!
Investigating Claims of Ill-Treatment by Persons with Disabilities
The European Court of Human Rights Delivers Partial Victory to Roma Girl with Intellectual Disability
Disability-Inclusive Climate Action
Lessons from the Historic 2022 Flooding in Bangladesh
Supported Decision-Making Is about Us
Why self-advocates need to lead supported decision-making efforts in Massachusetts and beyond
Self-Advocate Perspectives on COVID-19 Research
What self-advocates have to say about research on COVID-19 and persons with intellectual disabilities
Innovations in Inclusive Early Childhood Education
COSP CRPD 2022 side event
Self-Advocates in Research
What “nothing about us without us” means for the research community
Transfer of Rights under the IDEA
What the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act says and the importance of alternatives to guardianship for youth with disabilities
Disability, Human Rights, and Climate Justice
The urgent need for disability-inclusive climate action
Mobilizing DPOs in Bangladesh
How a 2013 law has created advocacy avenues for disabled people’s organizations
Disability and Armed Conflict in Colombia
The need for inclusive disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration processes
Fall 2021 Semester in Review
HPOD’s Events, Advocacy, Capacity-Building, and Research Activities
Universal Deaf Access Event Recording
How to Reshape Cultural, Academic, Architectonic, and Virtual Spaces
Disability Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
The need to prosecute egregious and systemic human rights violations against persons with disabilities
Respecting Autonomy in Health Care, Research, and All Areas of Life
What persons with disabilities want and how to make it happen
Broadening Our Understanding of Disability Rights
From legal compliance to respecting dignity
Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legal Capacity
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) continues to play a substantial role globally in shaping mental health policy making, clinical practice, and beyond. Article 12, along with its interpretive General Comment 1, enshrine a right to equal recognition before the law for all people, including those with psychosocial disabilities. […]
Youth with Disabilities in Zimbabwe
Barriers to sexual and reproductive health
Disability and Diversity in Medical Education
The need to prevent ableism and discrimination in medical school admissions
Pressing for Disability Rights
NCDJ and HPOD Links
Climate Change and the Right to Health of People with Disabilities
Lancet piece urges greater disability inclusion in climate change mitigation and adaption measures
Expanding Accessibility across Sectors
The overlapping roles of governments, businesses, and universities
COP26 Climate Change Summit Inaccessible to Wheelchair Users
What it says about the intersection of disability rights and climate change
Disability Bias in Health Care
Unearthing the influence of bias on health care policies and clinical decision-making
Mobilizing for the Rights of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities in India
Lessons from the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy’s work during the COVID-19 pandemic
Special Education Policies During COVID-19
Lessons from a Survey of United States School Districts
The Discordant Singer
How Peter Singer’s Treatment of Global Poverty and Disability Is Inconsistent and Why It Matters
50 for 50
HPOD Founding Director Bill Alford honored.
El acceso y uso de la propia lengua como derecho humano inalienable
Access to and use of one’s own language as an inalienable human right – In Spanish and in English
Do Polio Eradication Efforts Overlook the 20 Million People Living with It?
Why the battle against polio cannot be won through eradication alone
Harvard Law Today: Investigating mask mandate bans
Executive Director Michael Stein says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings
Reckoning with the History of Institutions for Persons with Disabilities in Massachusetts
Many of the origins of disability rights policy in America began in the Massachusetts legislature. There, in 1843 and 1846, Dorothea Dix and Samuel Gridley Howe launched major efforts to improve living conditions for people with mental, intellectual, and cognitive disabilities. More than 175 years later, disability advocates are now calling for legislators to pass […]
How to Strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act after 30 Years
Promoting Supported Decision-Making for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Guachalá Chimbo v. Ecuador
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Vindicates Persons with Disabilities’ Right to Receive Health on the Basis of Informed Consent
Disclosing and Treating Invisible Disabilities
Disclosure, ethics, and bias
Harvard Law School Project on Disability provides legal support during pandemic
Harvard Law Today
Thanks ADA!
A video by Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered
Founders of Harvard Law School Project on Disability Honored by the President of Ecuador
From Harvard Law Today
Successes And Shortcomings: 30 Years Of The Americans With Disabilities Act
Exec Director Michael Stein speaks to GBH’s Under the Radar
After 2020 Election, Disability Communities Are Hopeful for Change
HPOD’s Senior Associate Ari Ne’eman joins WNYC’s The Takeaway to discuss the hopes for change post-election.
Beyond Rights: Intersectional Disabled Movements & Disability Justice for Our Future
with Lydia X. Z. Brown
HPOD Co-founder and chair Professor William Alford reaches milestone
After nearly two decades as vice dean for HLS Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Alford has now passed the torch to Mark Wu, the Henry L. Stimson Professor at HLS and a leading scholar of trade and economic law.
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30
HPOD Executive Director Michael Stein says people with disabilities still face “malign neglect”
Launch of “Can They Do That?
A monthly webinar series for self-advocates
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 3
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 1
An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China
Volume 2
The New Disability-Inclusive Development
From the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Self-advocacy is about making your voice heard! Part 4
A series of videos on self-advocacy
Self-advocacy is about making your voice heard! Part 3
A series of videos on self-advocacy
Self-advocacy is about making your voice heard! Part 2
A series of videos on self-advocacy
Self-advocacy is about making your voice heard! Part 1
A series of videos on self-advocacy
Mental Health in Africa
Event Recap
Michelle Kwan, Melissa Reilly and the importance of inclusion in athletics
Harvard Law School hosts Olympians
Ari Ne’eman speaks at HPOD
A chapter from his forthcoming book on the history of disability in America
Alford receives the Li Buyun Law Prize
The award recognizes Alford’s outstanding contributions to Chinese legal research, disability rights and educational exchange
Professor Kim Samuel speaks about her work at HPOD
Social inclusion and the human right to belong
In “Learning from the Past to Appreciate the Present,” Alford draws from Confucius and Contemporary China
Alford delivers Cohen chair lecture