Michael Ashley Stein

Spring Term 2013

Visiting Professor of Law

Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

Research Interests

• Bioethics
• Disability Law & Policy
• Employment Discrimination
• Human Rights

Education

• New York University B.A. 1985, Politics
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1988
• Cambridge University (Gonville & Caius College) M.A. (Hon.) 1995
• Cambridge University (Gonville & Caius College) Ph.D. 1998

Appointments

• Professor of Law, College of William & Mary School of Law
• Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Stein will teach the reading group The Human Rights Frontier: Disability Rights in Comparative and International Perspectives in the Spring Term 2013.

Biographical Statement

Michael Stein holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, as well as Cabell Professor at William & Mary Law School, he has taught at Harvard, New York University, and Stanford law schools. An internationally acclaimed expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled persons organizations around the world, actively consults with international governments on their disability laws and policies, and advises a number of United Nations bodies.

Representative Publications

• Stein, Michael Ashley. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2013).
  
• Stein, Michael Ashley, Michael Evan Waterstone & David B. Wilkins. "Cause Lawyering for People with Disabilities," 123 Harvard Law Review 1658 (2010) (reviewing Samuel R. Bagenstos, Yale University Press, Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement (2009)).
  
• Stein, Michael Ashley. "Disability and the Social Contract," 74 The University of Chicago Law Review 1615 (2007).
  
• Stein, Michael Ashley. "Disability Human Rights," 95 California Law Review 75 (2007).