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What The Lawyer Well-Being Movement Could Learn From The Americans With Disabilities Act, Alex B. Long Nov 2021

What The Lawyer Well-Being Movement Could Learn From The Americans With Disabilities Act, Alex B. Long

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In 2017, the ABA National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being published The Path to Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, a report that contained numerous recommendations concerning how the legal profession can better address the alarming rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse within the legal profession. Since the publication of the report, there have been numerous ethics opinions, bar journal reports, and articles dealing with one issue in particular: the ethical duty on the part of law firm partners and management to supervise or to otherwise take action with respect to another lawyer who may be experiencing depression, anxiety, …


Review Of Alaska Mental Health Statutes, Sara Gordon, Melissa Piasecki, Gil Kahn, Dawn Nielsen Jan 2016

Review Of Alaska Mental Health Statutes, Sara Gordon, Melissa Piasecki, Gil Kahn, Dawn Nielsen

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This report identifies key statutory provisions that we recommend be amended, a description of our findings based on interviews with stakeholders, legislative history of the Alaska statutes, reviews of national best practices and, where applicable, information about emerging areas in national mental health law for Alaska to consider in creating new law. Our recommendations are based in large part on significant advances in law and medicine in the understanding and treatment of mental illness that have occurred in the years since Alaska last made significant and substantive reforms to its criminal and civil mental health statutes. It is important to …


Finding New Inspiration In The Adaaa, Alex B. Long Jan 2015

Finding New Inspiration In The Adaaa, Alex B. Long

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The Marrakesh Puzzle, Marketa Trimble Jan 2014

The Marrakesh Puzzle, Marketa Trimble

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This article analyzes the puzzle created by the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty in its provisions concerning the cross-border exchange of copies of copyrighted works made for use by persons who are “blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled” (copies known as “accessible format copies”). The analysis should assist executive and legislative experts as they seek optimal methods for implementing the Treaty. The article provides an overview of the Treaty, notes its unique features, and examines in detail its provisions on the cross-border exchange of accessible format copies. The article discusses three possible sources for implementation tools – choice of law rules, …


The Ohio State University Dispute Resolution In Special Education Symposium Panel, Dean Rivkin Jan 2014

The Ohio State University Dispute Resolution In Special Education Symposium Panel, Dean Rivkin

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Is There An Unreasonable Accommodation? Is There A Due Hardship?, Alex B. Long Jan 2010

Is There An Unreasonable Accommodation? Is There A Due Hardship?, Alex B. Long

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Bibliography Of Law Review Articles On Disability Law, Ann Puckett Jan 2007

Bibliography Of Law Review Articles On Disability Law, Ann Puckett

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Bibliography of law review articles discussing legal issues pertaining to disabilities, originally presented as a continuously updated online database.


State Anti-Discrimination Law As A Model For Amending The Americans With Disabilities Act, Alex B. Long Apr 2004

State Anti-Discrimination Law As A Model For Amending The Americans With Disabilities Act, Alex B. Long

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The Ada's Reasonable Accommodation Requirement And Innocent Third Parties, Alex B. Long Oct 2003

The Ada's Reasonable Accommodation Requirement And Innocent Third Parties, Alex B. Long

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A Good Walk Spoiled: Casey Martin And The Ada's Reasonable Accommodation Requirement In Competitive Settings, Alex B. Long Jan 1998

A Good Walk Spoiled: Casey Martin And The Ada's Reasonable Accommodation Requirement In Competitive Settings, Alex B. Long

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Civil Disabilities: The Forgotten Punishment, Dean Rivkin Jun 1971

Civil Disabilities: The Forgotten Punishment, Dean Rivkin

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