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Regulating Fake Assistance Animals: A Comparative Review Of Disability Law In Australia And The United States, Paul Harpur, Simon Bronitt, Peter Billings, Martie-Louise Verreynne, Nancy Pachana Jan 2018

Regulating Fake Assistance Animals: A Comparative Review Of Disability Law In Australia And The United States, Paul Harpur, Simon Bronitt, Peter Billings, Martie-Louise Verreynne, Nancy Pachana

Animal Law Review

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [CRPD] provides that persons with a disability have the right to be accompanied by an assistance animal to provide living accommodations in the navigation of routine daily activities. The CRPD imposes upon states an obligation to identify and to eliminate obstacles and barriers to accessibility (Art 9), as well as to take effective measures to ensure personal mobility with the greatest possible independence (Art 20). This extends to recognising the rights of persons with disabilities to be accompanied by assistance animals. In jurisdictions like Australia and the United States, …


Puppies, Ponies, Pigs, And Parrots: Policies, Practices, And Procedures In Pubs, Pads, Planes And Professions: Where We Live, Work, And Play, And How We Get There: Animal Accommodations In Public Places, Housing, Employment, And Transportation, Laura Rothstein Jan 2018

Puppies, Ponies, Pigs, And Parrots: Policies, Practices, And Procedures In Pubs, Pads, Planes And Professions: Where We Live, Work, And Play, And How We Get There: Animal Accommodations In Public Places, Housing, Employment, And Transportation, Laura Rothstein

Animal Law Review

This Article addresses how disability discrimination policy clarifies when animals might be allowed as accommodations in various settings. It provides the basic statutory and regulatory framework for these settings, additional administrative agency guidance, and some judicial interpretations of these requirements in various settings. Major settings where animals might be an accommodation are addressed separately, with particular focus on (1) higher education institutions because those settings have the potential of incorporating several different types of settings and (2) health care settings because of the particular concerns about health and safety.


Animals As Living Accommodations, Ani B. Satz Jan 2018

Animals As Living Accommodations, Ani B. Satz

Animal Law Review

This is the first symposium published in a law journal about using nonhuman animals as “living accommodations” for individuals with disabilities. The symposium features the work of both invited participants and speakers chosen from a call for papers issued by The Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Section on Animal Law for the AALS 2017 Annual Meeting, which was held in San Francisco, California, in January 2017. This program was co-sponsored by the Sections on Disability Law and Law and Mental Disability.


Some Tenants Have Tails: When Housing Providers Must Permit Animals To Reside In "No-Pet" Properties, Tara A. Waterlander Jan 2012

Some Tenants Have Tails: When Housing Providers Must Permit Animals To Reside In "No-Pet" Properties, Tara A. Waterlander

Animal Law Review

Living with a disability can make finding a home a difficult task. Discrimination against the use of a service or assistive animal in lease agreements is a hurdle to finding a home for persons with disabilities. This discrimination is particularly pronounced when the individual suffers from a mental or emotional disability, because these disabilities are “invisible.” Because these disabilities are invisible, landlords are often reluctant to make reasonable accommodations in lease agreements to further the use of service and assistive animals in the treatment of mental illnesses or other disabilities, as required by the Fair Housing Act. This Article considers …