[EL] Call for Papers: Could We Pass the ADA Today? Disability Rights in an Age of Partisan Polarization

[Franita Tolson]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the attached call for papers from the AALS Disability Law
Section's program for the 2018 annual meeting.  The Election Law Section is
excited to co-sponsor this program, and hope that many of you will consider
submitting an abstract.  The description is as follows:


*Could We Pass the ADA Today? Disability Rights in an Age of Partisan
Polarization*





            Disability rights advocates have long been willing to cross the
aisle.  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 stands out as a
model of bipartisan law-making.  Reagan appointees in the National Council
on Disability helped draft the legislation.  A Republican senator and a
Democratic congressman first sponsored the bill.  It passed the
Democratic-controlled Senate and House of Representatives by high
margins—78 to 8 and 377 to 28 respectively—before being signed into law by
a Republican president.



            Early signs seem to indicate that this degree of bipartisan
support for disability rights may be eroding in the Trump era.  Proposed
legislation like the American Health Care Act (“TrumpCare”) and the ADA
Education and Reform Act of 2017 threaten to roll back the legal
protections for people with disabilities.  Has America’s longstanding
history of bipartisan disability rights finally come to an end?  This panel
will explore whether the ADA could pass in the current polarized political
climate.  It also looks to the future asking how we might build consensus
across parties to further not only disability rights but also civil rights
generally.



            We encourage academics from a broad range of backgrounds
including disability law, election law, political theory, legislation, and
civil rights law to submit proposals for consideration.  Please email your
abstract to Jessica L. Roberts at jrobert6 at central.uh.edu by Friday, August
25.





-- 
Franita Tolson
Professor of Law
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Email: ftolson at law.usc.edu <ftolson at law.fsu.edu>
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