Ongoing Challenges of Disability Discrimination in Law, Politics and Society
Jasmine E. Harris
Jasmine E. Harris is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at the University of California—Davis School of Law. Professor Harris is an expert in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence. She is a law and equality scholar with a particular focus on disability. Professor Harris combines approaches in law and the humanities to better understand the role that perception, aesthetics, and emotions play in group subordination. By accounting for aesthetic preferences, she argues, we can better design antidiscrimination law to address structural biases and develop novel remedial pathways.
Ruth Colker
Ruth Colker is one of the leading scholars in the country in the areas of Constitutional Law and Disability Discrimination. She is the author of 16 books, two of which have won book prizes. She has also published more than 50 articles in law journals. 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.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). Her scholarship appears in the nation’s leading law reviews including the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal among others. Her opinion editorials and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and host of the podcast On the Issues with Michele Goodwin.
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at University of California, Irvine School of Law and UCI Center for Medical Humanities
