** Americans With Disabilities Act talk Jan. 29 is canceled **

A lecture by Dr. Michael Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 29 at the UT College of Law has been canceled. 

The event, “The Americans With Disabilities Act at 25: Looking in by Looking out,” will be rescheduled.
 

This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Where it stands now will be discussed Thursday, Jan. 29, at noon in the Law Center McQuade Law Auditorium.

Dr. Michael Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, will give a talk titled “The Americans With Disabilities Act at 25: Looking in by Looking out.”

The landmark civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation and all places that are open to the general public.

Stein will survey the act’s 25-year legacy of promoting equal opportunity for people with disabilities and address what needs to be done. In doing so, he will draw on his work on disability rights in three dozen countries.

An internationally recognized expert on disability law and policy, Stein helped draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, he works with disabled persons organizations around the world, consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, advises a number of UN bodies, and has brought landmark litigation and written extensively on disability rights.

Stein has received numerous awards for his work and was appointed by President Obama to the United States Holocaust Council.

A longtime visiting professor of law at Harvard, Stein also has taught at New York University, Stanford and William & Mary law schools.

He is a graduate of New York University and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Cambridge University.

Stein’s free, public talk is sponsored by the UT College of Law.

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