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Disability
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KGK Special Ed Law Blog
Return to School Roadmap, August 2021
By Kirsch-Goodwin, Kirsch
Thee United States Department of Education will be issuing guidance to schools notifying them that regardless of the COVID pandemic or how instructino is provided, students with disabilities must still…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Harpur Awarded Future Fellowship to Work on Workplace Disabilities
A huge congratulations to Paul Harpur (U. Queensland), who this week was awarded a four-year $1.1M Future Fellowship. His project is entitled Normalizing Ability Diversity through Career Transitions: Disability at…
Health Law Prof Blog
Reckoning with Race and Disability
Jasmine Harris (University of Pennsylvania), Reckoning with Race and Disability, 31 Yale L. J. Forum (2021)Our national reckoning with race and inequality must include disability. Race and disability have a complicated…
Bryant Legal Group News & Resources
Is It Possible to Work With Dementia? (And When Is It Time to Leave Your Job?)
By LexBlog
In 2011, legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt announced that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia. She continued to coach the Tennessee Volunteers for another season with support from her…
Special Needs Companies Blog
Episode 119: Disability and The Criminal Justice System with Attorney Jason Chan
Being stopped by or questioned by the police can be stressful for anyone but for those who are mentally ill or developmentally disabled, it can be quite traumatic. Often these…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
UCLA Professor’s Socio-Historical Account of Fatigue Touches on Workers’ Compensation Themes
UCLA public health professor Emily Abel has written a brief but wide-ranging social history of the phenomenon of fatigue. Abel, herself a breast cancer survivor who suffered from…
Pannone Corporate News and Opinion
What are the HR ramifications of long-COVID being recognised as a disability?
Pressure is clearly mounting on the Government to classify long-COVID as a disability. The aim is to provide thousands of employees with legal protection against any potential discrimination in the…
Law and the Workplace
Employee Disability and Cannabis Oil Protections Set to Take Effect in Virginia
By Guy Brenner, Shanice Z. Smith-Banks
Quick Hit: Two new laws in Virginia providing disability discrimination protections and protections for medicinal use of cannabis oil for employees go into effect July 1, 2021. Key Takeaway: Virginia,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Structured Silence: Mental Illness Disability and Disclosure in the Workplace
Emily Ahrend (University of New Mexico), Structured Silence: Mental Illness Disability and Disclosure in the Workplace, SSRN:Evasive, silenced, and contested, mental illness is an invisible form of disease that can…
Health Law Prof Blog
Study Paper on Inclusive Investing: Respecting the Rights of Vulnerable Investors through Supported Decision-Making
Canadian Centre for Elder Law, Study Paper on Inclusive Investing: Respecting the Rights of Vulnerable Investors through Supported Decision-Making, SSRN:Supported decision-making allows adults to pick who may assist them in…