Rob Wilks is an Associate Professor in Law at UWE Bristol, and teaches employment law. His work focuses on equality and sign language law



Research agenda

Deaf Legal Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field examining how law understands, constructs and affects deaf people and their communities. The aim is to develop its theoretical and methodological foundations and establish an international field of scholarship.

My monograph series examines the relationship between deaf people and law, challenging assumptions about equality, legal protection and inclusion across three interconnected volumes: The Deaf Legal Dilemma, The Deaf Legal Illusion and The Deaf Legal Exclusion.

With sign language law, I want to examine the effectiveness of sign language recognition laws internationally, including their implementation, impact and relationship with wider language and equality rights.

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