Courses 2024 - 2025

LAW H 530 Disability Law and Policy

Credits: 3-4, Max 4

The course will explore a wide range of policies and law, including employment and public accommodation under the ADA, special education rights under the IDEA, guardianship, and substitute decision making, deinstitutionalization and conditions of confinement and treatment, housing and homelessness, and international disability rights and policy. Students will study a combination of case law, statutes, policy-based articles, current events, and modern disability literature to consider how disability is defined, which rights exist for people with disabilities, and areas for future progress.