Australian Guardianship and Administration Council (AGAC) presents the 2nd World Congress on Adult Guardianship, Guardianship and the United Nations Disabilities Convention: Australian and International Perspectives, Oct. 15-16, 2012, in Melbourne. Abstracts are due Feb. 29, 2012.
Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates mw
Berkeley Law is hosting a Disability Law Symposium at Boalt Hall, March 22-23, 2012. They are currently seeking presentation proposals. The focus should be on the intersection of disability and other civil rights constructs such as gender, sexuality, class, race, class, ethnicity and religion. Presentations should be grounded in law (rights, discrimination, equity) or and/or public policy. Their goal is to “re-brand” the field of Disability Rights to encourage students to think of this (1)as a subset of the broader civil rights movement and (2) as part of the larger disability-related disciplines at the University.
The BerkeleyLaw Journal of Gender, Law & Justice has agreed to publish suitable symposium papers. Please submit a 2-3 paragraph abstract by email to srosenbaum[at]law.berkeley.edu no later than November 16, 2011 and indicate whether you would like to submit a paper for publication.
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Stetson Law School will be hosting the 2011 Special Needs Trusts: The National Conference on October 19 - 21, 2011. The Conference will provide an in-depth review and discussion on both basic and advanced levels of the major issues presented in the creation, administration, and monitoring of special needs trusts. mf
Temple Law School and the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review host Aging in the US: The Next Civil Rights Movement? Oct. 22, 2011.
In this Symposium, we explore elder law and aging policy from a civil rights perspective and begin the important task of rethinking equality across the lifespan. Over twenty leading scholars and advocates will engage cutting edge public policy issues regarding health care, guardianships, caregiving, institutionalized elders, and the special needs of minority populations. The goal of the Symposium is to move the national conversation surrounding aging beyond the traditional elder law topics of estate planning, benefit eligibility, and health care financing and ask whether elder rights should be the next civil rights movement.
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Emory Law School hosts a conference on tax policy from a critical perspective Sept. 16-17, 2011. “Critical perspectives on tax policy for this workshop will be limited to a focus on at least one of the following topics: race or ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender or gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or disability.” Abstracts were due June 30, 2011. More information available on TaxProf Blog. mw
Chapman University’s College of Educational Studies and School of Law invite proposals for the first Emerging Scholars Conference at Chapman University. The conference will take place September 23-24, 2011. The theme is Exploring Difference: Disability and Diversity in Education, Law, and Society. Proposals are due by April 15, 2011. Jump to full post
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) will host the fourth Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, Bridging the Gap Between the Disability Rights Movement and Other Civil Rights Movements, on April 14-15, 2011, at the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute in Baltimore. The symposium will seek solutions to address the misconception that disability rights is not a civil rights issue.
The International AIDS Society holds the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) (”Rights Here, Right Now) in Vienna July 18-23, 2010. Details about the Policy, Law, Human Rights and Political Science track are here.
Abstracts are due Feb. 10, 2010. (There is a window for “late breaker” abstract submission April 20 - May 20, 2010.) mw
Michael Perlin (New York Law School), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Future of Institutional Mental Disability Law in the United States: The Dawn of A New Era.
This paper is not publicly available.
The National Federation of the Blind hosts the Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, April 17, 2009, in Baltimore. The 2009 symposium, New Perspectives on Disability Law: Advancing the Right to Live in the World, will examine the new perspectives on disability law both in the United States, brought about by the election of a new administration and the signing of the ADA Amendments Act, and internationally, as a result of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
THE LONG ROAD HOME: PERSPECTIVES ON OLMSTEAD TEN YEARS LATER
The Georgia State University College of Law will hold a one-day symposium on Friday, October 23, 2009, to mark the tenth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s integration mandate in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), a landmark decision considered by some to be the disability law parallel to Brown v. Board of Education. The call for papers deadline is March 20, 2009. Jump to full post
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.
The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), The President and Immigration Law
Olga Semukhina (Marquette), Criminal Procedure in Modern Russia: The Path of Reforms
Jeannette Cox (Dayton Law), Looking Forward: The Amended Americans with Disabilities Act
The Georgia State University Law Review invites submissions for a special theme issue addressing current topics in disability law. The Review will consider any submission that broadly relates to legal issues confronting people with disabilities but is particularly interested in submissions that touch on the Americans with Disabilities Act or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.Articles should be limited to 35,000 words, including footnotes. Longer submissions will be considered but a strong preference will be given to shorter essays. Depending on article length, the Law Review anticipates that three to six articles will be selected and published in a single volume.The target date for publication is January 2009. The deadline for article submission is August 15th, 2008.Complimentary copies of this volume will be mailed to all members of the Disability Law Section of the AALS.
E-mail submissions to ahall31 [at] student.gsu.edu
Hardcopy submissions should be sent to:
Georgia State University College of Law
Attention: Law Review
140 Decatur Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law Policy and the Center for Health Law Studies presented the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium, Disability, Reproduction and Parenting, April 4, 2008.
Thanks: Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.
The University of Washington School of Law, in partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the University of Washington Disability Studies Program, and the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington School of Law, presents Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia, April 24-25, 2008. Registration deadline is April 10.
Topics of discussion will include the UN Convention on Disability Rights and how they impact domestic norms; disability citizenship and integration into society; international disability lawyering and advocacy; disability law after conflict; integrating people with disabilities into developing economies; global health, human rights and disability; and the funder community’s perspective on the future of disability human rights. There are confirmed speakers from eight countries and throughout the United States.The goal of the symposium is to explore the issue of disability rights in both a legal and human rights context within Asia. An examination of the Asian experience with these issues provides an opportunity to explore their application in a broad and diverse setting of different historical and legal contexts, environments, economies and forms of government.
The symposium is intended to reach an audience of academics, scholars, policy makers, human rights professionals, lawyers, advocates, foundations, and business leaders. The panel presentations will include time for audience discussion.Following the symposium, on Saturday, April 26th, there will be an optional advocacy meeting that will be open to symposium attendees, speakers and the public to discuss strategies to support ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
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