ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relational dynamics and power relations which are enabled and fostered through such frameworks. The subject of the Social Model, or the norm to be actualised, was critiqued as reinforcing particular liberal ideals such as autonomy, self-determination, rationality, and independence. Moreover, the processes underpinning the creation of legal binaries such as capacitous/incapacitous and disabled/non-disabled offer important insights for critical disability studies and work which seeks to challenge these categorisations. The chapter outlines the importance of a relational and spatial critical lens for law in tandem with critical disability studies, in order to illuminate the processes through which well-recognised problematic conceptual boundaries in relation to disability come to be developed. Bringing these disciplines together in this way will offer important insights for other areas which engage with disability, highlighting the role of law within the conceptual frameworks with which they engage.
