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Berkeley Law's Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects, David Oppenheimer, Susan Schechter, Shalini Swaroop, Trish Keady May 2013

Berkeley Law's Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects, David Oppenheimer, Susan Schechter, Shalini Swaroop, Trish Keady

Journal of Legal Education

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Gun Control, Mental Illness, And Black Trans And Lesbian Survival, Gabriel Arkles Dec 2012

Gun Control, Mental Illness, And Black Trans And Lesbian Survival, Gabriel Arkles

Gabriel Arkles

Those concerned with racial, gender, sexual, economic, or disability justice should be concerned about the direction and focus of national conversations in the wake of Newtown. Controversies over gun control and mental health treatment have a profound impact on those marginalized based on race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. Gun control laws endanger trans people of color and queer women of color, as well as those labeled mentally ill, by failing to reduce interpersonal violence while increasing the violence of the criminal legal system. Instead of increasing incarceration of people in marginalized communities who choose to carry guns, we should …


Interest-Convergence And The Disability Paradox: An Account Of The Racial Disparities In Disability Determinations Under The Ssa And Idea, Jana R. Dicosmo, Robert L. Hayman, Jordan G. Mickman Dec 2012

Interest-Convergence And The Disability Paradox: An Account Of The Racial Disparities In Disability Determinations Under The Ssa And Idea, Jana R. Dicosmo, Robert L. Hayman, Jordan G. Mickman

Robert L. Hayman

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The Rights Of Disabled Students, Derek W. Black, Robert A. Garda Jr., John E. Taylor, Emily Gold Waldman Dec 2012

The Rights Of Disabled Students, Derek W. Black, Robert A. Garda Jr., John E. Taylor, Emily Gold Waldman

Robert A. Garda

Education Law: Equality, Fairness, and Reform situates case law in the broader education world by including edited versions of federal policy guidance, seminal law review articles, social science studies, and policy reports. It offers comprehensive coverage of education law while also focusing specifically on equality and civil rights issues. It includes individual chapters on each major area of inequality: race, poverty, gender, disability, homelessness, and language status. Those chapters are followed by a structured approach to the complex first amendment questions, dividing the first amendment into three different chapters and addressing, in order, freedom of expression and thought, religion in …