Legal Victories, Lived Defeats: Disability Justice After the ‘Courtroom Revolution’

Co-Author: Dr. Vijay K. Tiwari, Assistant Professor, NUJS Kolkata

This piece critiques the limits of courtroom-led disability justice, challenging the over-reliance on judicial interventions in a political climate shaped by Schmittian states of exception and friend-enemy binaries. While legal reforms like reasonable accommodation suggest progress, they often reinforce able-bodied norms, treating disability as a managed exception. Through a close reading of liberal legal rhetoric, the piece reveals how the law sustains a logic of containment and conditional inclusion.

Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not reflect the opinion or stand of the University.