Gerard Quinn is a professor of law at the

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and at the Wallenberg Institute in the

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, Ireland, and Director of the university's Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the School of Law. He was appointed to the

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by the

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in 2012. He is a graduate of University College, Galway. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1983. He was awarded a masters (LLM) and doctorate in law (SJD) from Harvard Law School. He is a global authority on international and comparative disability law and policy. In October, 2020, Quinn was appointed by the

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as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Following Quinn's appointment, his ideas on the importance of disability law and policy have been disseminated by Open Society Foundations, the European Network on Independent Living, and elsewhere.

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