Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Jessica Roberts (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Health Law
Time: 10:30a-12:00p TTH Location: 311
Course Outline: This 3 credit survey course examines the rights of people with disabilities in the American legal system. Topics covered include the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. We will also discuss the social meaning of disability and the American disability rights movement.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=30.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: Week One—Theoretical & Historical Contexts
January 16
Ramona L. Paetzold, Why Incorporate Disability Studies into Teaching Discrimination Law, 27 J. L. STUD. ED. 61 (2010)
Lennard J. Davis, Disability, Normality, and Power, in THE DISABILITY STUDIES READER 1-14 (5d ed. 2017)
Ani B. Satz, Overcoming Fragmentation in Disability & Health Law, 60 EMORY L.J. 277, 304-14 (2010)
War on the Weak (in class)
January 18
Guest Lecture: Lex Frieden, Professor, UT Health Science Center; Director, Independent Living Research Utilization & Southwest ADA Center
Final Exam Schedule: 5/3/2024 9-12
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Our casebook is Samuel Bagenstos, Disability Rights Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2021)
All course reading appears on Canvas. I will also post supplemental materials and reviews. You can log on through the Access UH website: https://accessuh.uh.edu/login.php.