Disability and Equality Law

Elizabeth F. Emens is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, USA and Michael Ashley Stein is Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, USA.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Definition and Models: Defining impairment and disability: issues at stake, Mike Oliver; Philosophical issues in the definition and social response to disability, David Wasserman; What I learned, Simi Linton; Critiquing the social model, Tom Shakespeare; The mountain, Eli Clare; Does disability status matter?, Mark Kelman. Part II Theories of Equality and Inclusion: Disability equality: a challenge to the existing anti-discrimination paradigm?, Sandra Fredman; Critical race theory, feminism, and disability: reflections on social justice and personal identity, Adrienne Asch; Anti-subordination above all: a disability perspective, Ruth Colker; Agency and disability, Anita Silvers; The landscape of discrimination today, Susan Stefan; Mental disability law in a comparative law context, Michael L. Perlin; Deaf matters: compulsory hearing and ability trouble, Kristen Harmon. Part III Accommodation and Access: When it is reasonable for Europeans to be confused: understanding when a disability accommodation is 'reasonable' from a comparative perspective, Lisa Waddington; Challenging disabling barriers to information and communication technology in the information society: a United Kingdom perspective, Anna Lawson; Antidiscrimination and accommodation, Christine Jolls; Utilitarianism and distribution to the disabled, Mark S. Stein; Disability studies and the future of identity politics, Tobin Siebers. Part IV Life and Death: Disability, life, death, and choice, Samuel R. Bagenstos; Somewhere a mockingbird, Deborah Kent; Reimagining retardation, transforming community, Allison C. Carey; Introduction, Tom Shakespeare; Was I ever wrong, Michael Bérubé; Name index.