Although we all know that NALSWD is the best of them all, there are other disability-and-the-law conferences out there. One, which merits some attention, is the Berkeley Law Disability Law Symposium.Registration ends March 8th. You can more about this worthy event below:
Re-branding Disability Law: The Intersection of Disability, Gender, Race
and Class (http://
The format will be a Thursday late afternoon keynote address and panel
discussion, beginning at 4 pm, followed by plenary panels all day Friday,
with a lunchtime keynote.
Keynotes:
Sam Bagenstos : “Olmstead, Class, and Race”
Carrie Griffin Basas: “HIV Stigma/Sex(uality) Stigma”
Other speakers include: Claudia Center, Zanita Fenton, Bill Lann Lee, Dale
Margolin, Jennifer Mathis, Arlene Mayerson, Kelly McAnnany, JoNel Newman,
José Padilla, Shawna Parks, Paula Pearlman, Elizabeth Pendo, Anita
Silvers, Michael Waterstone and Mark Weber.
Sponsors include: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Boalt
Disability Law Society, Center for the Study of Law and Society,
Disability Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, Arts and
Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, Berkeley Journal of Gender,
Law and Justice, Human Rights Interdisciplinary Program, Legal Studies
Program and DREDF (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund).
The symposium will be preceded by informal workshops open to the public,
on Thursday afternoon, with presentations by “junior” scholars and
lawyers. There will be receptions Thursday (Boalt
Hall) and Friday (Ed Roberts Campus) following the program.
More information at http://
Also, don’t forget about the tenBroek law symposium, the details of which were published earlier on this blog.
