[New-york-news] Join us Monday for NYPL Law Day!

[Chancey Fleet]

Law Day 2017: Equal Protection and Disability Access at Andrew Heiskell
Monday, May 1, 2017, 3 - 4 p.m.
PROGRAM LOCATIONS:
Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
Law Day is held on May 1st every year to celebrate the rule of law and to
cultivate a deeper understanding of the role that the law plays in our
democracy and in our lives. Each year, organizations around the country
host a variety of activities to engage communities around a legal theme.
This year, The New York Public Library will host a series of conversations,
activities, and workshops around the 2017 theme:  The Fourteenth Amendment:
Transforming American Democracy.
Please join Leslie Salzman, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of
Clinical Legal Education, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, at the Andrew
Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library for an information session on the
topic of equal protection and disability.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the law.
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Leslie Salzman is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal
Education, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY. For the last 25
years, Leslie Salzman has been teaching in Cardozo’s civil litigation
clinic, Bet Tzedek Legal Services.  She co-directs that clinic and also
serves as the law school’s Director of Clinical Legal Education.  The civil
litigation clinic represents low-income individuals, most of whom are
elderly or have disabilities, in individual and class action litigation
primarily in the areas of elder and disability rights and benefits, and
housing and consumer law.  Her class action litigation includes: Pfeffer v.
New York City Department of Finance (E.D.N.Y.); Rodriguez v. City of New
York (2d Cir.; SDNY); Mayer v. Wing (S.D.N.Y.); and Medicare Beneficiaries
Defense Fund v. Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (E.D.N.Y.). She also teaches
disability law at Cardozo and has lectured and written on issues relating
to guardianship. See Rethinking Guardianship (Again):  Substituted Decision
Making as a Violation of the Integration Mandate of Title II of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, 81 University of Colorado Law Review 157
(2010); Guardianship for Persons with Mental Illness—A Legal and
Appropriate Alternative?, 4 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y 279 (special
issue, 2011).
Prof. Salzman is a court-approved mediator and has taught mediation at
Cardozo Law School and in several programs outside the United States. For
the last several years, she has also been mediating civil rights cases in
the Southern District of New York.  Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty,
Prof. Salzman was an attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest,
where she specialized in litigation concerning the rights of individuals
with physical and mental disabilities. After her graduation from New York
University School of Law, she served as pro se law clerk in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Chancey S. Fleet
Assistive Technology Coordinator
Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
(212) 621-0627
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