[blindlaw] Eve Hill and Marc Maurer to Keynote at the 2017 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

[Blake, Lou Ann]

Hear Keynotes Eve Hill and Marc Maurer

at the

2017 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

Disability Justice and the Supreme Court:
The Constitution and the Right to Live in the World

March 30-March 31, 2017
at the
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

Join keynote speakers Eve Hill and Marc Maurer, and other leading disability and civil rights advocates from throughout the United States to examine the application of the United States Constitution by the Supreme Court to persons with disabilities and explore strategies to raise the level of judicial scrutiny so that all may achieve Dr. tenBroek's vision of equality of opportunity. The 2017 Jacobus tenBroek Disability law Symposium will consist of plenary sessions and workshops facilitated by distinguished law professors, practitioners, and advocates who will discuss topics such as barriers to job application accessibility and potential legal remedies; effective strategies for achieving digital accessibility and communication access; criminalization of disability; and the development of a strategy to raise the level of judicial scrutiny set by Cleburne and Garrett.
Presenters will include:


*       Samuel Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

*       Ruth Colker, Distinguished University Professor and Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University

*       Robert Dinerstein, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

*       Leslie Francis, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law

*       Daniel F. Goldstein, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP

*       Jasmine E. Harris, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law

*       Eve Hill, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP

*       Marc Maurer, Director of Legal Policy, National Federation of the Blind

*       Arlene B. Mayerson, Directing Attorney, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund

*       Kimberly Mutcherson, Vice Dean, Camden Law School East, Rutgers University

*       Mark E. Olive, Principal, Mark E. Olive Law Office

*       Robert M. Sanger, Senior Partner, Sanger Swysen & Dunkle

*       Rebecca Vallas, Managing Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress

  *   Michael Waterstone, Dean, Loyola Law School

*       Silvia Yee, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund



Documentation for CLE credits will be provided. The 2017 symposium has been preapproved for CLE by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board.

Registration fee: $175 (nonrefundable)
Student registration fee: $25 (nonrefundable)

For more information about the symposium, hotel accommodations, and symposium sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://nfb.org/law-symposium.

You can register online by going to: Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium Online Registration. <https://nfb.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&action=preview&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
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
Email: lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>




Lou Ann Blake, J.D.
Deputy Executive Director, Jernigan Institute
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 659-9314, extension 2221| lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>


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