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Legal capacity: a necessary reflection in the light of the Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disability

Authors

  • Álvaro Benavides López Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile

Abstract

The Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disability establishes a far-reaching change of paradigm in the regulation of the legal capacity that consists in the recognition of capacity of exercise of persons with disability and in the change from the system of substitution to the system of support in decision-making. This article aims to present the regulation of the legal capacity in the Chilean law system and the impact that this rights-based approach causes. Finally, it invites to reflect upon some issues that may be significant for the full application of the article 12 of the Convention in our country.

Keywords:

disability, convention, legal capacity, human rights, support models, substitution model

Author Biography

Álvaro Benavides López, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile

Abogado, Doctor en Derechos Humanos, Máster en Estudios avanzados en Derechos Humanos, “Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas”, por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España. Especialista en Derecho Constitucional y Ciencias Políticas, por el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, España. Profesor asociado de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Constitucional de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile. Miembro de la Red de Expertos Iberoamericanos de la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad. Abogado del Programa de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio del Interior, Chile.