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Developing Deaf Legal Theory (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Wilks, R. (2022, November). Developing Deaf Legal Theory. Presented at University of Birmingham, Language and Law Seminars, Birmingham

This is Rob Wilks' first lecture on Deaf Legal Theory in which he presents a summary of Bryan and Emery's (2014) seminal chapter, attempts to develop a model through which Deaf Legal Theory can be applied, and applies it to four different areas of la... Read More about Developing Deaf Legal Theory.

Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh (2022)
Report
Wilks, R., & O'Neill, R. (2022). Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh

Having conducted a review of the impact of the Scottish national BSL plan on deaf education, in particular its issues, failures and successes, during Phase 1 of this project, the purpose of this report was to ascertain whether there is an appetite at... Read More about Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh.

Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators (2022)
Book Chapter
Wilks, R. (2022). Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators. In C. Stone, R. Adam, R. Müller de Quadros, & C. Rathmann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting (249-266). Oxford: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003019664-21

The aim of this chapter is to contextualise the role of sign language interpreters and translators within a Deaf jurisprudence framework. Several critical issues and topics are discussed: the disparity between the Deaf identity and the laws that prov... Read More about Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators.