Forty Years of Disability Policy in Legal Education and the Legal Profession: What Has Changed and What Are the New Issues?
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2014
University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2015-07
133 Pages Posted: 25 May 2014 Last revised: 3 Mar 2015
Date Written: May 23, 2014
Abstract
This Article examines the history of disability discrimination law, its impact on higher education and legal education, and its eventual impact on the legal profession. It discusses how the ADA, as enacted in 1990, substantially broadened protection for people with disabilities and suggests that having the earlier Rehabilitation Act apply only to a narrow sector of society may have been good for disability rights generally, and for legal education and the legal profession in particular.
Keywords: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, disability discrimination, higher education, legal education
JEL Classification: K00, K4, K39
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