Introduction: The Lasting Legacies of Institutionalisation: Questioning Laws Roles in the Emancipation of People with Disabilities Claire Spivakovsky, Linda Steele and Penelope Weller Part One Power Dynamics that Shape the Conditions and Possibilities of People With Disabilities Within and Beyond Sites of Physical Confinement 1. Navigating Mental Health Tribunals as a Mad-identified Layperson: An Autoethnographical Account of Liminality Liz Brosnan 2. The Will to Empower in Contemporary Mental Health Practice Penelope Weller 3. The Biopolitics of Disability in Late Francoism and the Spanish Democratic Transition (195981) Salvador Cayuela Sanchez 4. Disability Law in Spain: Moving Forward Towards Full Citizenship and Inclusion? Eduardo Diaz Velazquez 5 Accommodation in the Academy: Working with Episodic Disabilities and Living In Between Roxanne Mykitiuk 6. Disabling Solitary: An Anti-Carceral Critique of Canadas Solitary Confinement Litigation Sheila Wildeman Part Two Complicated Alliances: The Confluence of Ableist, Sanist, Gendered, Classed and Racialised Logics in Law, Policy and Practice 7. Excavating Hostility and Rationalising Violence through Anti-immigrant Confluent Discourses of Racial Threat, Risk, Burden and Lack Ameil Joseph 8. DisabilityIndigenous Gendered Relations in SettlerColonial Australia: Continuities, Trajectories and Enmeshments Karen Soldatic 9. Disability, Gender and Institutions: An Examination of Australian Cases Involving Personality Disorders Isabel Karpin and Karen OConnell 10. Reconciling Cognitive Disability and Corrosive Social Disadvantage: Identity, Transgression and Debility Leanne Dowse 11. Fixated Persons Units: A Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) Analysis Fleur Beaupert and Shelley Bielefeld Part Three Institutionalisation and Human Rights: The Role of the CRPD in the Emancipation of People with Disabilities 12. A Matter of Engagement: Analysing the Submissions to the CRPD Committee on General Comment #1 Peter Barlett 13. Making Sense of Cheshire West Lucy Series 14. The Production of Dependent Individuals Within the Application of Spanish Law 39/2006 on Personal Autonomy and Dependent Carein Andalusia, Basque Country and Madrid Melania Moscoso Perez and R Lucas Platero 15. To Use or Not to Use Physical Restraints in Paediatric Psychiatric Care: Should Health Professionals as Guarantors Use Coercive Measures to Protect from Potential Harm? Elvira Pertega Andia 16. Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? Jill Stavert 17. Diffabled Peoples Access to Indonesias Criminal Justice System Dio Ashar Wicaksana