[Nfbk] FW: [Chapter-presidents] National Federation of the Blind to Present Third Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

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National Federation of the Blind to Present
Third Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium



Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez and
Former Congressman Tony Coelho to be Keynote Speakers






Baltimore, Maryland (April 13, 2010): The National Federation of the Blind
(NFB) will present the third Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium on
April 15–16, 2010, at the NFB Jernigan Institute in Baltimore.  The
symposium, entitled “Equality, Difference, and The Right to Live in the
World” and named for NFB founder and pioneering legal scholar Dr. Jacobus
tenBroek (1911–1968), will gather public officials, legal scholars, and
disability rights advocates for a two-day seminar on the state of disability
law in the United States and the world, and will discuss how disability
rights may be advanced in the future.  Tom Perez, assistant attorney general
for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Tony
Coelho, former <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />California congressman and
current chairman of the board of the American Association of People with
Disabilities, will be the keynote speakers.
“Our first two Jacobus tenBroek symposiums were extraordinary events, and we
are looking forward to once again hosting leading players and thinkers in
the disability community,” said Dr. Marc Maurer, an attorney and President
of the National Federation of the Blind.   “Disability law is rapidly
changing at the national and international level, and this forum will
provide an opportunity for everyone to assess developments and plan
strategies in this dynamic and critically-important field.”



Other presenters at the 2010 symposium include the Honorable Richard Brown,
chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals; Mark Weber, Vincent DePaul
Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law; and Dan Brock,
director of the division of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School.



Dr. Jacobus tenBroek was a constitutional law scholar, a blind professor at
Berkeley, and an author of treatises on the Fourteenth Amendment and social
welfare.  Dr. tenBroek created the concept that civil rights should apply to
disabled Americans, and he published extensively on the application of the
law to those with disabilities.  His efforts to advance civil rights for the
blind and others with disabilities included drafting the model White Cane
Law, which has had a profound influence on the development of civil rights
laws for the disabled throughout the United States, and publishing
authoritative articles like “The Right to Live in the World: The Disabled in
the Law of Torts.”



The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Texas Journal on
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.



For more information about the National Federation of the Blind, please
visit www.nfb.org.






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About the National Federation of the Blind



With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the
largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the
United States.  The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy,
education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and
self-confidence.  It is the leading force in the blindness field today and
the voice of the nation's blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the
National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and
training center in the United States for the blind led by the blind.

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