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Disability and Ability: The Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Courtesy of Dr. Peter Blanck

Peter Blanck Date: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Time: 1:00 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

U.S. society and the laws that protect the rights of the disabled will be the focus of a November 20 webchat. The United States has made historical leaps and bounds in securing the rights of those with disabilities with the 16-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act. Join Peter Blanck of the Burton Blatt Institue to discuss trends in disability rights and policy.

Guest Biography:

Peter Blanck has written over 125 articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act and related laws, received grants to study disability law and policy, argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress. His work has received national and international attention. He is a board member of the National Organization on Disability and of Disability Rights Advocates (DRA). His recent writings include a treatise and casebook on disability civil rights law and policy.

Blanck is a professor at Syracuse University and chair of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. He also is a former member of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, a senior fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program, a former fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a Mary Switzer Scholar.