[blindlaw] Registration Closes March 27th for the 2016 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

[Blake, Lou Ann]

Registration Closes March 27th!

for the

2016 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

Diversity in the Disability Rights Movement: Working Together to Achieve the Right to Live in the World

March 31 - April 1, 2016
at the
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

Don't miss this opportunity to hear 2016 keynote speaker U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson and leading disability rights advocates examine the status of diversity in the disability rights movement and explore ways to increase diversity so that all may achieve Dr. tenBroek's vision of equality of opportunity. Other speakers will include:

  *   Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
  *   Rabia Belt, Research Fellow, Stanford Law School
  *   Claudia Center, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
  *   Matthew W. Dietz, President and Litigation Director, Disability Independence Group, Inc.
  *   Jane Dunhamn, Director, National Black Disability Coalition
  *   Michelle Garcia, Community Development Organizer - Latinos, Access Living
  *   Regina Kline, Senior Counsel (Acting), Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  *   Jonathan Lazar, Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University
  *   David Lepofsky, Chair, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance
  *   Anil Lewis, Executive Director, National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
  *   Alison J. Lynch, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights New York
  *   Jonathan Martinis, Senior Director for Law and Policy, Burton Blatt Institute
  *   Marc Maurer, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind
  *   Alice Wong, Advisory Board Member, Asian and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California

You will also have the opportunity during the symposium to purchase the just published book "The Future of Disability Law: Essays from the 2015 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium," edited by David Ferleger. This book contains essays, written by many of the presenters from the 2015 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, that reflect on how far the disability rights movement has come since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and what we hope to achieve in the next 25 years.

For more information about the symposium, hotel accommodations, and symposium sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://nfb.org/law-symposium. Note: The deadline to reserve a room in the hotel block is 3:00 p.m., EST, February 29, 2016.

Registration fee: $175
Student registration fee: $25

You can register online by going to: https://nfb.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=60

You may also download from the symposium website a registration form to mail or fax.

For additional information, contact:

Lou Ann Blake, JD
Law Symposium Coordinator
Jernigan Institute
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2221
Email: lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>



Lou Ann Blake, J.D.
Deputy Executive Director
Jernigan Institute
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
    at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2221
Fax: (410) 659-5129
E-mail: lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>
Web site: www.nfb.org<http://www.nfb.org/>

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