DePaul University College of Law (Chicago)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
DePaul University is committed to providing students with disabilities equal access to DePaul’s educational and co-curricular opportunities so that students may fully participate in the life of the university. The Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) services are available to students with diverse physical, learning, medical, mental health and sensory disabilities. The Center offers supports to students to achieve their academic goals while promoting their independence. CSD is a resource to the many university departments that share the responsibility of supporting the members of our diverse learning community.
2250 North Sheffield Avenue
Lincoln Park Student Center, Room 370
Chicago, Illinois 60614-3673
Phone: (773) 325-1677
Fax: (773) 325-3720
Email: [email protected]
Courses
Disability Law (LAW 716)
This course surveys American law as it relates to people with disabilities. Primary focus is on discrimination in employment, government services, public accommodations run by private entities, and housing. The course will also cover topics such as the law of guardianship and income support programs. International perspectives will be included.
Policing Special Populations
This course reviews the law and policy considerations relating to policing certain special segments of the population. Specifically, the course introduces the unique legal issues relating to policing juveniles, individuals with mental health issues or disabilities, and parties in domestic violence cases. The course will provide greater understanding of best practices for investigating, interviewing, and processing these populations and will draw on case studies relating to policing these groups.
Health Services and Wellness
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
1200 W. Harrison St., 1070 SSB Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 413-2183
Fax: (312) 413-7781
Email: [email protected]
Clinical Programs
Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic - B. Clauss ([email protected])
Assists veterans by investigating and researching their VA benefit claims.
Fair Housing Legal Support Center - A. Bethel ([email protected])
Assists people with housing discrimination/accommodations.
Externship Programs
City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Disabilities
Public Guardians Office
Social Security Office
Probate Court
For information, contact S. MacLachlan - [email protected]
Courses
Disability Law
Health Law
Psychology & the Law
Employment Law
Student Organizations
Disability Law Organization
Health Services and Wellness
Loyola University - Chicago
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
SAC collaboratively works with students and faculty to ensure accessibility in and out of the classroom. The implementation of accommodations is a shared responsibility between the student, faculty, and SAC.
Phone: (773) 508-3700
Email: [email protected]
Courses
Disability Law
Health Services and Wellness
Northern Illinois University College of Law (DeKalb)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
The Disability Resource Center (DRC) offers guidance, services and resources to help you succeed at NIU. We will work with you to determine your needs and develop a plan to meet them. Come prepared to discuss issues related to accessibility that may impact your success at NIU.
Our office works to provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students and the campus community. Exam accommodations, classroom accommodations, reformatting of course materials and adaptive technology are a few of the accommodations we offer.
Peters Campus Life Building, Suite 180
Monday-Friday
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Phone: (815) 753-1303
Fax: (815) 753-9570
Email: [email protected]
Health Services and Wellness
Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
Northwestern University and AccessibleNU are committed to providing a supportive environment for all undergraduate, graduate, professional school, and professional studies students with disabilities. We work to provide disabled students a learning environment that affords full participation, equal access, and reasonable accommodation.
AccessibleNU - Chicago
710 N. Lakeshore Dr, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (847) 467-5530
Email: [email protected]
Clinics
Center for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ)
The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Center for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ) is a first-of-its kind center founded in Fall 2022 by Professor Jamelia Morgan. The Center is a Disabled Person's Organization (DPO) dedicated to the pursuit of a more equitable society by promoting the rights and voices of marginalized people, with a particular focus on the intersections of race and disability.
Courses
More than 50 million Americans have disabilities, even as the population just begins to age significantly. The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 as a key civil rights law to help persons with disabilities obtain access to employment, government facilities and programs at all levels, transportation and most public accommodations. The ADA was amended in 2008 to overrule several Supreme Court decisions that had unduly restricted the Act, and to enable persons with disabilities to bring their cases to court more easily. This seminar will explore how our disability laws have succeeded or failed to fulfill their promise. Through analysis of case law, topical articles and guest appearances, we also will examine closely the 2008 amendments to the Act in this evolving, dynamic area of the law. Each student is expected to select a topic of particular interest to him or her, perform an in-depth review of the law related to that topic, and write a paper on the subject. The instructors will work individually with each student to prepare a final paper. Students¿ progress will be tracked through class discussion, informed reaction papers and individual sessions with the instructors (Judges Robert Gettleman and Jeffrey Gilbert of the Northern District of Illinois; and Hillary Weis Coustan, counsel at Massey & Gail and adjunct faculty member at Loyola University Chicago Law School).
This course examines employment discrimination law, focusing on three major statutes - Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The course will explore the substantive meanings of “discrimination” under these (and other) acts and how individuals prove discrimination in litigation.
This seminar course examines the intersection of mental health and the law in various criminal and civil contexts. The first session addresses general issues concerning interaction of the two disciplines and each of the subsequent sessions will focus on a specific legal issue and the mental health implications; for example, not guilty by reason of insanity, competence to stand trial, termination of parental rights based on a mental condition, involuntary hospitalization, or commitment of sexual offenders. Each seminar will discuss assigned readings that include landmark cases and secondary source material. Seminar sessions balance philosophical discussions (e.g., tension between individual rights and governmental intrusion on those rights for social goals) with practical implications (e.g., admissibility of mental health evidence) and experiential elements.
Student Organizations
Disability Law Society (DLS)
The mission of DLS is to support Northwestern Law students with disabilities, as well as, encourage open discussion about disability rights on campus. DLS provides resources and peer support for students coping with medical issues or trying to obtain appropriate accommodations, connects students with professional mentors in the greater disability community, and raises awareness of disability issues among the Northwestern Law community.
Health Services and Wellness
Southern Illinois University School of Law (Carbondale)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
900 South Normal Avenue
Woody Hall B150
Carbondale, IL 62901-4705
(618) 453-5738
Fax (618) 453-5700
TTY (618) 453-2293
[email protected]
Courses
Disability Law
The Disability Law course surveys the diverse subject of the rights and anti-discrimination protections afforded to persons with disabilities. Among the areas covered are employment, governmental programs and services, public accommodations (by private providers), educations, housing and health care. The course will emphasize federal law, with particular attention on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Employment Discrimination
Study of employment discrimination laws relating to race, color, religion, sex and national origin; analysis of models of employment discrimination, use of statistical methodology, and burden of proof, sexual harassment and affirmative action issues; review of claims of employment discrimination arising under Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Equal Pay Act, Civil Rights Acts and Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mental Health Law
This course primarily examines three broad issues: the mental health professional and the law; the mental health system in the civil context; and the metal health system in the criminal setting. The course examines the legal and philosophical basis for a separate mental health system and the legal limitations upon that system. In this regard, the role of the professional mental health practitioner, the role of the attorney in the mental health process, legal rights of patients within the system and related problems are explored.
Health Services and Wellness
University of Chicago Law School
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
Student Disability Services (SDS) works in collaboration with University of Chicago faculty and staff to provide resources, support, and accommodations to ensure that all aspects of student life are accessible and inclusive of persons with disabilities.
Emails:
Phone: 773-702-6000
Fax: 773-926-0996
5501 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Clinics
The Clinic focuses primarily on pre-trial litigation and handles a number of individual cases and class actions. In individual cases, the Clinic represents clients in cases before the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Human Rights Commission and seeks to obtain relief for clients from race, sex, national origin, and handicap discrimination in the work place.
Courses
Disability Rights Law
This course will focus on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including the interpretation of the definition of disability and the subsequent ADA Amendments Act; employment discrimination; the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision guaranteeing community integration; and the ADA's application to healthcare, education, websites and criminal justice. In addition to the ADA, the seminar will review disability laws related to special education, housing and financial benefits.
Student Organizations
Disability Rights, Advocacy, and Community
Astudent group committed to enhancing the experience of students and lawyers with disabilities, as well as putting a spotlight on disability law in general. This organization will work to provide a community for students with disabilities in the school and advocate for greater accessibility at the law school, as well as greater representation of disabled students. DRAC will also partner with other organizations to bring in speakers related to the topic of disability in law. All are welcome, including students who identify as disabled, allies, and those who are interested in disability law. [email protected]
Health Services and Wellness
University of Illinois College of Law (Champaign)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES) is a service unit of the College of Applied Health Sciences that provides students with disabilities academic adjustments, accommodations, and supports throughout the University of Illinois.
1207 S. Oak St.
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-1970
TTY (217) 244-9730
Fax (217) 333-0248
[email protected]
Clinics
The Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC) offers students the opportunity to learn holistic, client-centered lawyering through representing military veterans in a broad array of civil legal matters. While some of the cases the VLC will handle are specific to this client population, such as discharge upgrades, the majority of the clinic's cases involve broader civil legal issues, including family law, housing, consumer disputes, public benefits, disability, employment, etc. The clinic seeks to foster in its students a strong professional identify, advocacy skills, and consistent engagement in reflective, intentional practice while providing excellent legal services to a severely underserved population. Students will take the lead in all aspects of their cases, including client interviews, pleading drafting, fact investigation, discovery, negotiation, and court hearings. Students will also have the opportunity to interact professionally with a wide variety of social service, medical, mental health, and other providers in the effort to meet their client needs.
Courses
This course examines the federal laws pertaining to employment discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, national origin, alienage, age, and disability. The course focuses primarily on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. There is some limited coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the affirmative action requirements imposed under Executive Order 11,246. Careful consideration is given to the burdens of proof applicable to employment discrimination suits based upon both individual claims of discriminatory treatment and class claims challenging personnel standards which have a disparate impact upon protected groups. The course also explores the bona fide occupational qualification defense, the validation rules applicable to employment requirements that have a disparate impact upon protected groups, and the bona fide seniority system exemption.
Student Organizations
Disability Law Society (DLS)
DLS focuses on accessibility both in the College of Law and in the legal profession and aims to educate students on the disability legal field.
Health Services and Wellness