[Nfbv-announce] FW: National Federation of the Blind to Present Second Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium

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Subject: National Federation of the Blind to Present Second Jacobus tenBroek
Disability Law Symposium

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CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of the Blind

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330

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cdanielsen at nfb.org

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

Kareem Dale, President Obama's Special Assistant for Disability Policy, 
to Address Gathering and Field Questions

Baltimore, Maryland (April 15, 2009): The National Federation of the Blind
(NFB) will present the second Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium on
April 17, 2009, at the NFB Jernigan Institute in Baltimore.  The symposium,
entitled "New Perspectives on Disability Law: Advancing 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 full-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.  Kareem Dale, special
assistant for disability policy to United States President Barack Obama,
will make a presentation to the gathering.  Mr. Dale will speak on the Obama
administration's policies on disability issues for approximately thirty
minutes followed by a forty-five minute question and answer session.  

"Our first Jacobus tenBroek symposium was a stunning success, 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 2009 symposium include Professor Gerard Quinn,
National University of Ireland, Galway; Assistant Attorney General Maura
Healey, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Professor Samuel Bagenstos, UCLA
School of Law; and Professor Peter Blanck, Burton Blatt Institute at
Syracuse University.

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."

For more information about the National Federation of the Blind, please
visit www.nfb.org <http://www.nfb.org/> .  

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