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Schedule of Events


Time
Event

8:00 - 9:00  

Registration and Continental Breakfast

900 - 9:15   Dean's Welcome
  Nell Jessup Newton, Chancellor and Dean

University of California, Hastings College of the Law

9:30 - 10:45 Opening Remarks
  "The State of the Americans with Disabilities Act and California Law Today"

Linda D. Kilb, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Berkeley, CA; Adjunct Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law

10:45-11:00 

Break (Refreshments provided)

11:00- 12:15 Breakout Sessions I
 

Affirmative Obligations: Accommodation in the Workplace
Moderator: Michelle Travis, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law;
Claudia Center, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, CA;
Professor Michael Stein, William & Mary School of Law.

Shirking Civic Duty? Limited Access to the Polls and Courts
Moderator: Professor Paul Grossman, Ph.D, Institute on Disability, San Francisco State University;
Eve Hill, Executive Director, Disability Rights Legal Center, Los Angeles, California; Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School;
Dara Schur, Protection & Advocacy, Inc., Oakland, CA;

Professor Michael Waterstone, Loyola Law School.

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch and Keynote
  "Strategies and Etiquette: How to Effectively Communicate with People with Disabilities"

Eve Hill, Executive Director, Disability Rights Legal Center, Los Angeles, California; Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School

2:15 - 3:30
Breakout Sessions II
  Class Action Litigation
Moderator: Kasey Corbit, Fellow, Disability Rights Advocates; Adjunct Professor, U.C. Hastings College of the Law;
Professor Samuel Bagenstos, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law;
Laurence Paradis, Executive Director, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA;
Guy Wallace, Schneider & Wallace, San Francisco, CA;

Disability and Education
Moderator: Paul Grossman, Adjunct, U.C. Hastings College of the Law;
Professor Wendy Hensel, Georgia State University College of Law;
Roger Heller, Disability Rights Advocates, Berkeley, CA;

Stephen Rosenbaum, Protection & Advocacy, Oakland, CA; Adjunct Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law and Stanford Law School

3:30 - 5:00
Meet and Greet Networking Reception


   

   

 

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