Please join us for this year's Wayne Law Review Symposium gathering legal scholars from across the country to explore the powerful and complex dynamics between law and disability. Symposium contributors will present on disability-centered topics including affirmative action, corporal punishment in schools, intellectual and developmental disabilities, fair housing, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

8:30 am - 9:15 am: Breakfast

9:15 am - 9:30 am: Opening Remarks

9:30 am - 11:30 am: Panel 1

• Jasmine E. Harris, Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law
• Topic: The Dignity of Service
• Michael Stein, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
• Topic: Tell It to Me Plainly: Towards Recognizing a Federal Right to Readily Understandable Information about Their Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Ani B. Satz, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law 
• Topic: forthcoming
• Jami Anderson, Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School 
• Topic: Dangerous and Disorderly: Public School Corporal Punishment of Children with Disabilities

 11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Panel 2

• Ruth Colker, Distinguished University Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
• Topic: The Disability Silo
• Jamelia Morgan, Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• Topic: Theory on operationalizing disability justice in law
• Kate Caldwell, Director of Research and Policy at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Center for Racial and Disability Justice 
• Topic: Theory on operationalizing disability justice in law

 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Panel 3

• Cheryl L. Anderson, Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School
• Topic: “Handicap” under the Fair Housing Act Amendments: Do the FHAA, the ADA, and the Rehabilitation Act Still Share a Universal Definition?
• Samuel R. Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School
• Topic: A disability law perspective on the Grants Pass case
• Mark C. Weber, Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law
• Topic: The Special Education Bar
• Danielle M. Shelton, Professor of Law at Drake University Law School 
• Topic: Disability, Originalism, and Constitutional Advocacy in State Courts

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm: Closing Remarks

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