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Christina Payne-Tsoupros – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2020
This article explores how a disability justice framework would provide greater access to law school and therefore the legal profession for disabled students of color; specifically, disabled Black, Indigenous, and Latinx students. Using DisCrit principles formulated by Subini Annamma, David Connor, and Beth Ferri (2013), this article provides…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Students with Disabilities, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Youngblood, Norman E.; Tirumala, Lakshmi N.; Galvez, Robert Anthony – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
Electronic media accessibility has come a long way since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 2010, the Communication and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) mandated closed captioning many online videos and called for making video blind accessible through audio descriptions. The Department of Justice (DOJ) ruled Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Information Technology, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Paetzold, Ramona L. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2010
Those who teach employment discrimination law, particularly as a separate course or part of a course on employment law, are used to covering a broad range of legal models and issues pertaining to the protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The disparate treatment, disparate impact, and hostile environment models of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Employment Problems
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Schmitz, Suzanne J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Although Sir William Blackstone would not have known if he had been lecturing to students with learning disabilities, today's law professors are. Law schools are legally required to accommodate students with learning disabilities unless the requested accommodation would alter the fundamental nature of the program. Courts give great deference to…
Descriptors: Law Students, Learning Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Law Schools
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Coleman, Phyllis G.; Jarvis, Robert M. – Journal of College and University Law, 1997
Because certain disabilities cause students to need additional time to complete course work, law schools typically allow enrollment in fewer credit hours, which requires additional time for program completion. Tuition adjustment is considered as a possible solution to this problem, and it is concluded law schools may have to adjust tuition…
Descriptors: College Administration, Disabilities, Higher Education, Law Schools
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Simon, Jo Anne – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article discusses the court case of a woman with learning disabilities who applied to take the New York State Bar Examination and was denied testing accommodations. The issues in the case are examined, including the refusal of the New York State Board of Law Examiners to provide adequate accommodations. (CR)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation
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Tucker, Bonnie Poitras; Smith, Joseph F., Jr. – Journal of Legal Education, 1996
The obligations of law schools, under federal law, to accommodate faculty with disabilities are examined. Employment provisions of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the definition of a disabled individual are reviewed, and real and hypothetical scenarios in hiring and employing law teachers are…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Definitions