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A Service-Learning Project: Disability, Access And Health Care, Elizabeth Pendo
A Service-Learning Project: Disability, Access And Health Care, Elizabeth Pendo
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Last summer, I was thinking about a public service project for my disability discrimination law course. I teach the course in fall, and try to incorporate a project each year. Integrating a public service project into a traditional doctrinal course fits within the trend toward expanding teaching techniques beyond the case method in order to better prepare students for the practice of law., It was also inspired in part by the Carnegie Foundation's 2007 report, "Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law," as a way to foster "civic professionalism," and to "[link] the interests of legal educators with the …
Taking It To The Streets: A Public Right-Of-Way Project For Disability Law, Elizabeth Pendo
Taking It To The Streets: A Public Right-Of-Way Project For Disability Law, Elizabeth Pendo
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I teach a course in Disability Discrimination Law, which is designed as a civil rights course focused on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When the ADA was passed in 1990, it was celebrated by many as one of the most significant civil-rights victories of this century. The ADA was enacted to "provide clear, strong, consistent, [and] enforceable standards [for] addressing discrimination against individuals with disabilities" and prohibits discrimination in employment, public services and transportation, privatelyowned places of public accommodations, and telecommunications. Although the ADA is not the first federal law addressing disability, its passage made clear that the continued …
Mainstreaming Civil Rights In The Law School Curriculum: Criminal Law And Procedure, Tamara F. Lawson
Mainstreaming Civil Rights In The Law School Curriculum: Criminal Law And Procedure, Tamara F. Lawson
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