The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law

Moving Beyond Binaries

Beverley Clough (Law Department at the University of Leeds)

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social law; Medical & healthcare law

Series: Social Justice

This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism; empowerment/protection; carer/cared-for; disabled/non-disabled; public/private. Whilst on one level the book demonstrates the pervasive reach of laws questioning individuals mental capacity, within and beyond the medical context which it is most commonly associated with, at a deeper and perhaps more important level it challenges the underlying norms and assumptions underpinning the very idea of mental capacity, and reflects outwards on the transformative potential of these realisations for other areas of law. In doing so, whilst the book offers lessons for mental capacity law scholarship in terms of reform efforts at both domestic and internationals levels, it also offers ways to develop our understandings of a range of linked legal, policy and theoretical concepts. In so doing, it offers new critical vantage points for both legal critique and conceptual change beyond mental capacity law.

The book will be of interest to researchers in mental capacity law, disability law and socio-legal studies as well as critical geographers and disability studies scholars.

By: Beverley Clough (Law Department at the University of Leeds)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781032115771
ISBN 10: 1032115777
Series: Social Justice
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The Conceptual Terrain: Spatial Dynamics and Law 2. Spatial Dynamics and Disability: Interrogating the Terrain of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 3. Capacity/Incapacity: A Dynamic Disability Critique 4. Care/Disability - Challenging the Divide Through Relationality 5. State/Individual: Situating the State 6. Freedom/Deprivation of Liberty: The Logics of Liberty in Mental Capacity Law 7. Public/Private: Dichotomies of Powerlessness in the Court of Protection Conclusion

Beverley Clough is based in the Law Department at the University of Leeds.