Professor of procedure & civil rights putting the reasonable back into accommodations. Gal from Kalamazoo/Toronto/Rome.
Syracuse, NY
Joined December 2009
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My latest paper, Disability Without Documentation, is available on SSRN. It examines reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and how the interactive process requires medical documentation to prove disability. I argue against this practice. A thread. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Wynne’s Impact on Disability Rights in Higher Ed: An Interview with Katherine Macfarlane americanbar.org/groups/diver…
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Professor @KatAMacfarlane, Dir. of the College of Law’s Disability Law and Policy Program, spoke with @ABAesq Committee on Disability Rights about her article, “The Higher Education Accommodation Mistake,” recently published in the Georgetown Law Review. americanbar.org/groups/diver…
Tentatively back on here to share that
The Higher Education Accommodation Mistake is out @GeorgetownLJ. It argues that courts apply a statutorily indefensible deference to higher ed reas accommodation denials based on the fundamental alteration defense.
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As good a time as any to remind folks--I'm on the entry level law professor job market this cycle. My job talk paper titled "The Unconstitutionality of Trans Healthcare Restrictions" is available via SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
I spot @SUCollegeofLaw 2L Kaitlin Sommer front and center. Kaitlin repped us at this year’s conference! She has a tremendous background in government service and advocacy and is a rising star.
We had an incredible time this past weekend at our Leadership Academy Intensive at Harvard!
And there's more to come: our next Intensive is on March 21-22 at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL.
Apply now: buff.ly/3XYMuiK
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Hot off the presses from the @IowaLawReview, my article Innovating Accessible Health Care! It deals with disability rights, health care, and innovation police. Read it here: ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-110….
Presentations in Disability Law today examined how illiteracy might be covered by the ADA, how sanism influences guardianship, the (missing) law of ESAs, accommodations available to incarcerated people, and an examination of inaccessible jury boxes here in Syracuse courtrooms.
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AMAZING NEWS:
A bill passed in NYC today.
Tenants no longer have to pay brokers’ fees when the landlord hires the broker (the landlord will pay it). This is monumental. Some of those brokers were charging up to $20k!
Today in Disability Law presentations focused on the paralympics’ documentation standards, voter suppression, what animates disability resentment, Syracuse bus system access barriers, and how to respond to direct threat claims lobbed at service animals. Another wonderful day.
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For our next #MemberMonday, meet Secretary @JordanRBerger (she/her)!
Jordan is a disabled lawyer based in Seattle, Washington. She is a co-founder for both @NatDLSA and NDLPA. As a 2020 graduate of NYU Law, Jordan was part of the first group taking the remote (1/3)
My grandparents. CRAF pilot, British Wren. Met at the end of WWII. She lived in Canada for the rest of her life.
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Pedro Zamora died 30 years ago today. I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile, and I had hoped/assumed it would be a little more “celebratory.”
Despite losing him, I was assuming that we were entering a time of greater hope.
