Theresia Degener

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Theresia Degener (born April 10, 1961 in Altenberge ) is a German lawyer and professor for law and disability studies at the Evangelical University of Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum . She is an activist of the German disability movement . In 1981 she played a key role in the implementation of the cripple tribunal , and in the years after 2001 as an independent lawyer and representative of Germany in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities .

Life

Theresia Degener studied in Frankfurt am Main and at the Boalt Hall / UC Berkeley and did her doctorate with Michael Stolleis on a care law topic.

From 1993 to 1994 she was project manager at the “ Dutch Disability Council”, Utrecht , and from 1993 to 1995 legal counsel for the self-determined life Germany association (ISL) in Kassel . From 1989 to 1996 she represented the non-governmental organization Disabled Peoples' International at the UN Human Rights Commission . From 1993 to 1995 she was legal policy spokesperson for the ISL, and from 1997 to 1999 she was also the legal advisor to the European Community's European Disability Forum . In addition, she is a member of the forum for disabled lawyers and of the network of disabled women and girls in the Article 3 network . From 1999 to 2000 she was a visiting professor and Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Law , one of the 14 schools at the University of California, Berkeley . From 2005 to 2010 she was visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Western Capes, South Africa. She has been visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Maastricht since 2013. In the 14th legislative period of the German Bundestag , she was also an expert on the Enquête Commission on Law and Ethics in Modern Medicine .

Theresia Degener researches international human rights and disability, the special discrimination against women with disabilities and the sexual abuse of the disabled. She is also one of the key researchers working to establish disability studies in Germany. She describes the German special school system as " apartheid " and criticizes the fact that one comes out of the special school more disabled than one goes into it. In contrast, Degener assumes that most handicapped children can be “ included for free ”.

Theresia Degener is married and has two sons.

honors and awards

For her commitment to the human rights convention for the disabled , she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on October 4, 2005 by the then Federal President Horst Köhler .

Publications

  • Quinn, Gerard / Degener, Th. (2002) Human rights and disability: The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability, OHCHR, United Nations, New York and Geneva (UN Sales No: E. 02.XIV.6)
  • Degener, Theresia / Dern Susanne / Dieball, Heike / Frings, Dorothee / Oberlies, Dagmar / Zinsmeister, Julia (2008): Anti-Discrimination Law: Manual for Teaching and Counseling Practice: With Solution Examples for Typical Case Constellations, Frankfurt a. M .: Fachhochschulverlag.
  • Degener, Theresia / Diehl, Elke (Ed.) (2015) Handbook of the Convention on the Rights of the Disabled. Participation as a human right - inclusion as a social task. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Volume 1506.
  • Degener, Theresia (2017) Basics of inclusion from an international law perspective according to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-BRK) In: Institute for Educational Law and Research in Education / German Institute for International Educational Research (Ed.) On the way to an inclusive school. Organization of school and educational development –4. German School Rights Day, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 11–24
  • Theresia Degener (2018) Supported Equal Freedom: On the Innovation Potential of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In: S. Baer, ​​U. Sacksofsky (Hrsg.) Autonomy in Law - Measured according to gender theory. Nomos: Baden-Baden pp. 61–70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Prosinger: badische-zeitung.de: Theresa Degenershausen, pioneer Disability Rights: Radical normal . Badische Zeitung , December 15, 2014
  2. ↑ reha-recht.de: Forum for disabled lawyers (FbJJ) ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reha-recht.de
  3. ↑ netzwerk-artikel-3.de
personal data
SURNAME Degener, Theresia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenberge