{"id":490,"date":"2025-11-21T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weframeproject.eu\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=490"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:32:46","slug":"vulnerable-capacity-notes-on-a-quiet-legal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/weframeproject.eu\/it\/resource\/vulnerable-capacity-notes-on-a-quiet-legal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Capacity.\u00a0Notes on a Quiet Legal Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vulnerability turn has contributed to the concept of vulnerability becoming an established part of the legal lexicon. By adopting a legal-philosophical perspective, this paper will explore what might be considered the most interesting theoretical outcome of the vulnerability paradigm: the concept of universal legal capacity, enshrined in Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The reasoning will focus on two main areas. First, the theoretical background of this reflection will be clarified, by investigating the main arguments of the current debate on vulnerability. Such a reflection will provide the necessary background to explore the relationship between autonomy and vulnerability. The second part of this paper specifically aims to analyse the content and legal implications of Article 12 CRPD. The exegesis of Article 12 will attempt to show that said Article is theoretically founded on the paradigm of vulnerability. Following that, a \u2018reality test\u2019 will give the opportunity to discuss some of the main positions that are present in the existing literature on the topic, with particular attention to the relationship between support and substitution. The expression vulnerable capacity has been used in order to emphasise the complex analysis required to adequately address the issue of capacity from a theoretical perspective. It will be argued that legal capacity can be considered vulnerable because it characterises a (universally) vulnerable subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A study by Maria Giulia Bernardini, published in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law &#8211; Revue internationale de S\u00e9miotique juridique, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11196-022-09950-1#Abs1\">Volume 36, pages 1415\u20131442, (2023)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":492,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"resource-category":[12],"resource-tag":[33,26,35,34],"class_list":["post-490","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-category-curated","resource-tag-disability","resource-tag-law","resource-tag-rights","resource-tag-vulnerability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vulnerable Capacity.\u00a0Notes on a Quiet Legal Revolution - WeFrame<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weframeproject.eu\/it\/resource\/vulnerable-capacity-notes-on-a-quiet-legal-revolution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vulnerable Capacity.\u00a0Notes on a Quiet Legal Revolution - WeFrame\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The vulnerability turn has contributed to the concept of vulnerability becoming an established part of the legal lexicon. 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