Ruth Colker

When Is Separate Unequal?

A Disability Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780521886185
• ISBN-10: 052188618X
• Artikelnr.: 25427675

Autorenporträt

Professor Colker is one of the leading scholars in the country in the areas of constitutional law and disability discrimination. She is the author of eight books, two of which have won book prizes. She has also published more than 50 articles in law journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Journal, Pennsylvania Law Review, University of Virginia Law Review, and University of Michigan Law Review. She has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio to comment on disability and constitutional law topics. Before joining the faculty at Ohio State, Professor Colker taught at Tulane University, the University of Toronto, the University of Pittsburgh, and in the women's studies graduate program at George Washington University. She also spent four years working as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, where she received two awards for outstanding performance. Professor Colker was also a recipient of the University's Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2001, the University's Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award in 2002 and the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 2003. She is a 1978 graduate of Harvard University and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Anti-subordination above all: a disability perspective
3. The mythic 43 million Americans with disabilities at the workplace
4. K-12 education
5. Higher education and testing accommodations
6. Voting
7. Reflections on race: the limits of formal equality.