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Do Unions Promote Rights For People With Disabilities?, Lilach Lurie
Do Unions Promote Rights For People With Disabilities?, Lilach Lurie
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
Scholars and international organizations emphasize the role of unions in promoting disability rights. Nonetheless, previous studies showed that unions may underrepresent people with disabilities. The current research aims to contribute to this debate through an empirical examination of collective agreements in Israel. The research shows that although collective agreements in Israel promote disability insurance and job security for people with disabilities, they do not promote accommodations or employability security for workers with disabilities. Moreover, the research shows that coordination between unions and disability organizations is essential to promote the rights of workers with disabilities. Lastly, the research emphasizes the importance …
Why The 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Worked: A Case Study Of Law And Social Movement Mobilization, Christopher W. Schmidt
Why The 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Worked: A Case Study Of Law And Social Movement Mobilization, Christopher W. Schmidt
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
Inefficient Inequality, Shi-Ling Hsu
Inefficient Inequality, Shi-Ling Hsu
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
For the past several decades, much American lawmaking has been animated by a concern for economic efficiency. At the same time, broad concerns over wealth and income inequality have roiled American politics, and still loom over lawmakers. It can be reasonably argued that a tension exists between efficiency and equality, but that argument has had too much purchase over the past few decades of lawmaking. What has been overlooked is that inequality itself can be allocatively inefficient when it gives rise to collectively inefficient behavior. Worse still, some lawmaking only masquerades as being efficiency-promoting; upon closer inspection, some of this …
Syria - Another Drawback For R2p?: An Analysis Of R2p'S Failure To Change International Law On Humanitarian Intervention, Muditha Halliyade Dr.
Syria - Another Drawback For R2p?: An Analysis Of R2p'S Failure To Change International Law On Humanitarian Intervention, Muditha Halliyade Dr.
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
No abstract provided.
Autism Charter Schools: Legally Vulnerable Or Viable?, Janet R. Decker, Keshia Seitz, Bruce Kulwicki
Autism Charter Schools: Legally Vulnerable Or Viable?, Janet R. Decker, Keshia Seitz, Bruce Kulwicki
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
Perhaps due to the dramatic increase in children diagnosed with autism, a new type of charter school has emerged that is designed to specifically serve students with autism. If these autism charter schools illegally segregate students with autism from typically developing peers, they are vulnerable to legal challenges. In this Article, we identified many constitutional and statutory violations that could exist at autism charter schools; however, our review of the litigation found that autism charter schools have not been challenged for these legal violations. Instead, we found only one charter school case alleging segregation based on ability level and eight …