Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights

Contributors

Contributors Ruth Colker, J.D. holds the Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law at the Ohio State University College of Law. She has written extensively on the Americans with Disabilities Act and is coauthor of a leading casebook on disability law. Recent publications include Winning and Losing under the ADA, ADA Title III: A Fragile Compromise, The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Windfall for Defendants, The Law of Disability Discrimination , 3d ed. (with Bonnie P. Tucker), and American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism: The Worker, the Family, and the State . Lennard J. Davis, Ph.D. is Professor of English and Professor of Disability Studies and Human Development at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Professor Davis has written extensively in both deaf studies and disability studies, and is the editor of the Disability Studies Reader. Other recent publications include My Sense of Silence: Memoir of a Childhood with Deafness, and Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. He has also edited a collection of his parents’ correspondence, entitled, “Shall I Say a Kiss?”: Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936–1938. His newest book is Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism , and Other Dif‹cult Positions. Matthew Diller, J.D. is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Professor Diller has written extensively in the areas of disability policy , focusing on the intersection of disability issues with public bene‹ts policy . His recent publications include Dissonant Disability Policies: The Tensions between the Americans with Disabilities Act and Federal Disability Bene‹t Programs; Entitlement and Exclusion: The Role of Disability in the Social Welfare System and The Revolution in Welfare Administration: Rules, Discretion, and Entrepreneurial Government. Harlan Hahn, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California and has written extensively on disability policy. Major disability-related publications include Disabled Policy: America’s Programs for the Handicapped, The Politics of Physical Differences: Disability and Dis395 crimination, The Issue of Equality: European Perceptions of Employment for Disabled Persons; and Disability and Rehabilitation Policy. Linda Hamilton Krieger, J.D. is a former civil rights lawyer and is now Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and Codirector of the Center for the Study of Law and the Workplace. Her research interests center on antidiscrimination law and social cognition theory. Recent publications include Civil Rights Perestroika: Intergroup Relations after Af‹rmative Action and The Content of Our Categories: A Cognitive Bias Approach to Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity. Vicki A. Laden, J.D. is a former public health policy researcher and Human Genome Project Fellow. She is now a lawyer in Oakland, California, where her practice centers on labor and employment law. Wendy E. Parmet, J.D. is a disability rights lawyer and Professor of Law at the Northeastern University School of Law. Professor Parmet represented plaintiff Sidney Abbott in the 1998 Supreme Court case of Bragdon v. Abbott, and she writes extensively on disability law. Recent publications include Positively Disabled: The Relationship between the De‹nition of Disability and Rights under the ADA (with Patricia Illingworth) and Individual Rights and Class Discrimination: The Fallacy of an Individualized Analysis of Disability. Stephen L. Percy, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His major research interests include disability policy and implementation, urban politics, and urban service delivery. Professor Percy’s recent publications include Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy: The Politics of Implementation; Challenges and Dilemmas in Implementing the ADA: Lessons and Achievements in the First Decade; and Disability Policy in the United States: Policy Evolution in an Intergovernmental System. Marta Russell is an independent journalist who focuses on the socioeconomic dimensions of disability. She is the author of Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. She has published in the Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Disability and Society, Monthly Review, and The Review of Radical Economics. Her commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Austin Statesman, and many other newspapers. She writes a monthly column for 2Net. 396 Contributors Kay Schriner, Ph.D. is on the faculty of the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas. Professor Schriner was the founding editor of the Journal of Disability Policy Studies, was a presidential appointee to the President ’s Committee on the Employment of People...