scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTION TO EXPLORING LAW, DISABILITY, AND THE CHALLENGE OF EQUALITY IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: PAPERS FROM THE BERKELEY SYMPOSIUM

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laverne Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Berkeley Symposium ◽  
The University

It brings me great pleasure to write this Introduction to Exploring Law, Disability, and the Challenge of Equality in Canada and the United States. This special collection of articles in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice [WYAJ] stems from a symposium of the same name held at the Berkeley Law School at the University of California on 5 December 2014. Writing this introduction allows me to bring together my identities as a law and disability scholar, the principal organizer and convener of the Berkeley Symposium, and editor-in-chief of the WYAJ.In these roles, I have had the opportunity to engage with this set of articles and their authors in a distinct way – from the early versions of these articles through to the final peer-reviewed publications. The Berkeley Symposium is the first conference, of which we are aware, to bring together scholars and experts from both Canada and the United States to present research and exchange ideas on equality issues affecting persons with disabilities in both countries.1 Each academic was invited to write about an equality issue of their choice that is of contemporary concern to persons with disabilities, and to focus on Canada, the United States,or both, at their  option. The result is a set of articles that is simultaneously introspective and comparative.

An Interregional Comparative Study of Headache Clinic Populations

Cephalalgia ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
JE Mendizabal ◽  
JF Rothrock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
Headache Clinic ◽  
The University

We present a comparative study between headache clinic populations from 2 inherently different regions of the United States. Using standardized methods, 1 of us (JFR) prospectively evaluated 578 new patients attending the headache clinic at the University of California in San Diego. In a similar manner, we subsequently evaluated 115 new patients presenting to the headache clinic at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. We found few differences between the 2 populations. These differences more likely reflect regional variations in healthcare delivery or methodologic artifact than intrinsic dissimilarities.

Disability

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Norden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The University

The study of moving-image representations of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a young and vibrant subset of cinema and media studies, itself a relatively youthful field. The vast majority of books and articles on the subject were published in the 1990s or later and reflect a growing awareness of—indeed, hinge on the concept of—disability as a social construct. The research into film and disability is inextricably connected to the development of another interdisciplinary field of inquiry: disability studies, which emerged from the disability rights activism of the 1960s and 1970s and a desire to address concerns about ableist prejudice, discrimination, and indifference. Inspired to some extent by the developing fields of women’s studies and various minority studies (e.g., African American, Native American, queer), disability studies was hindered in its growth by the decades-long dominance of a certain way of thinking about disability called the medical model: the widespread, retrograde belief that disability is primarily a pathological problem to be overcome, not a socially constructed identity factor. With the establishment of the Society for Disability Studies in 1982, the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, and other key developments, however, the field matured significantly. University-level courses and scholarly journals dedicated to disability studies slowly but steadily increased across the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries during this time. The field reached a milestone in 1993 when the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez hosted the first scholarly conference devoted to disability studies in the arts and humanities, and it arrived at another in 1998 when the University of Illinois at Chicago established the first PhD program in disability studies in the United States. The earliest studies that examined the construction of disability in moving-image media were quantitative in nature and published in old-line medical-model journals. They were largely the output of a particularly industrious scholar named E. Keith Byrd. Alone or, more often, in collaboration with a colleague, Byrd published a series of such studies during the late 1970s and 1980s. Bearing such titles as “Feature Films and Disability” and “Disability in Full-Length Feature Films” and appearing in such journals as Journal of Rehabilitation, International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, and Rehabilitation Literature, Byrd’s articles tended to be brief, numbers-heavy, and laced with less-than-telling insights. (Among the observations in one such study were “that the film industry does utilize a variety of disabilities in its dramatizations” and “that disability is not totally ignored by the film industry.”) His efforts marked a start, however, and the following studies pick up where Byrd’s work leaves off.

Affirmative Action for the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Sterba
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Affirmative Action Program ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Action Program ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

Diversity instead of race-based affirmative action developed in the United States from the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision in 1978 to the present. There have been both objections to this form of affirmative action and defenses of it. Fisher v. University of Texas could decide the future of all race-based affirmative action in the United States. Yet however the Fisher case is decided, there is a form of non-race-based affirmative action that all could find to be morally preferable for the future. A diversity affirmative action program could be designed to look for students who either have experienced racial discrimination themselves or who understand well, in some other way, how racism harms people in the United States, and thus are able to authoritatively and effectively speak about it in an educational context.

Archaeological Explorations in Southern Peru, 1954–1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 22 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howland Rowe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
The University

From March, 1954, through the whole of the year 1955 the University of California at Berkeley sponsored a program of archaeological field work in southern Peru and related studies in museums of the United States. In Peru the expedition worked out of 2 bases, one at Cuzco in the highlands and the other at lea on the south coast. It was concerned primarily with archaeological survey and exploration, although excavations were also made at 2 Inca period sites in the coastal area studied. The expedition staff consisted of John H. Rowe, Director, Dorothy Menzel (Mrs. Francis A. Riddell), Francis A. Riddell, Dwight T. Wallace, Lawrence E. Dawson, and David A. Robinson.

An Analysis and Recommendations Concerning an Incident in Which Muslim Students Interrupted an Israel Official Speaking on a College Campus

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Gilbert Geis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campus ◽  
University Of California ◽  
District Attorney ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
Muslim Student ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Association

Eleven young men, eight of them members of the Muslim Student Association at the University of California, Irvine, and three from UC Riverside, as part of a planned stratagem, in turn stood up and heckled the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for about 5 min during his public presentation on the Irvine campus. They were ejected from the auditorium and punished by the University. Subsequently, the local district attorney filed misdemeanor charges against the group and won a conviction. The article provides details of the event, the varying reactions to the behavior and to the criminal case, and describes and analyzes a key state Supreme Court opinion considering the constitutionality of the statute employed against the students. Finally, recommendations are offered as a means to avoid what the writer regards as an unfortunate and perhaps biased official action against members of an ethnic minority.

Essays in Honor of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.: An Introduction

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
The University

Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., the honoree of this festschrift, is a major figure in both legal studies and religious studies, and so it is especially fitting that theJournal of Law and Religionpublish these essays in his honor. This essay will serve as an introduction to Noonan's works and to the essays collected herewith.John Noonan's activities in connection with secular law are fairly well known. He has served with distinction as United States Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1985. In addition to serving on the bench, he has taught for nearly thirty years at Boalt Hall, the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, and twice been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Earlier he was Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and throughout his career he has served as a visiting professor at other distinguished law schools including Stanford and Harvard, his alma mater.

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