Prof. dr. L.B. Waddington (Professor in European Disability Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room B0.002b
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3883253
E-mail: lisa.waddington@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Lisa Waddington holds the European Disability Forum Chair in European Disability Law. Shecompleted her studies in Law and Politics (first class honours / cum laude) at the University of Birmingham (1989) and received her Doctorate of Law in 1993 from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for her dissertation: ‘More Disabled Than Others. The Employment of Disabled People within the European Community: An Analysis of Existing Measures and Proposals for Reform’. She also worked as a researcher at the University of Georgetown, Washington D.C. in 1992 and as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 2000.
Lisa Waddington’s principal area of interest lies in European disability law and European equality law. In 2000, she received an ASPASIA award from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Between 2004 and 2007 she coordinated a large EU research and education project on European non-discrimination law. She also coordinated the involvement of Maastricht University in the FP7 EuRADE project (European Research Agendas expanding Disability Equality) and the ongoing Marie Curie Intial Training Network DREAM (Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets).
Lisa Waddington is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law and a member of both the Ius Commune Research School and the Human Rights Research School. Between 1993 and 2004 she was the editor of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. She is currently a board member of a number of Networks and organizations, including the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-discrimination Field and the Academic Network of European Disability experts.
Selected representative publications
Lisa Waddington and Gerard Quinn (eds), European Yearbook of Disability Law (published annually), Intersentia.
D. Schiek, D., L. Waddington, and M. Bell (eds), Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law (Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe), 2007, Hart Publishing
Lisa Waddington, From Rome to Nice in a Wheelchair, The Development of a European Disability Policy, 2006, Europa Law Publishing.
