[Missouri-l] [Jobs] National Federation of the Blind to Present Second JacobustenBroek Disability Law Symposium

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CONTACT:

Chris Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of the Blind

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330

(410) 262-1281 (Cell)

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National Federation of the Blind to Present
Second Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium




Kareem Dale, President Obama's Special Assistant for Disability 
Policy,
to Address Gathering and Field Questions



Baltimore, Maryland (April 15, 2009): The National Federation of 
the
Blind (NFB) will present the second Jacobus tenBroek Disability 
Law
Symposium on April 17, 2009, at the NFB Jernigan Institute in
Baltimore.  The symposium, entitled "New Perspectives on 
Disability
Law: Advancing the Right to Live in the World" and named for NFB
founder and pioneering legal scholar Dr.  Jacobus tenBroek
(1911-1968), will gather public officials, legal scholars, and
disability rights advocates for a full-day seminar on the state 
of
disability law in the United States and the world and will 
discuss
how disability rights may be advanced in the future.  Kareem 
Dale,
special assistant for disability policy to United States 
President
Barack Obama, will make a presentation to the gathering.  Mr.  
Dale
will speak on the Obama administration's policies on disability
issues for approximately thirty minutes followed by a forty-five
minute question and answer session.



"Our first Jacobus tenBroek symposium was a stunning success, and 
we
are looking forward to once again hosting leading players and
thinkers in the disability community," said Dr.  Marc Maurer, an
attorney and President of the National Federation of the
Blind.   "Disability law is rapidly changing at the national and
international level, and this forum will provide an opportunity 
for
everyone to assess developments and plan strategies in this 
dynamic
and critically important field."



Other presenters at the 2009 symposium include Professor Gerard
Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway; Assistant Attorney
General Maura Healey, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Professor 
Samuel
Bagenstos, UCLA School of Law; and Professor Peter Blanck, Burton
Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.



Dr.  Jacobus tenBroek was a constitutional law scholar, a blind
professor at Berkeley, and an author of treatises on the 
Fourteenth
Amendment and social welfare.  Dr.  tenBroek created the concept 
that
civil rights should apply to disabled Americans, and he published
extensively on the application of the law to those with
disabilities.  His efforts to advance civil rights for the blind 
and
others with disabilities included drafting the Model White Cane 
Law,
which has had a profound influence on the development of civil 
rights
laws for the disabled throughout the United States, and 
publishing
authoritative articles like "The Right to Live in the World: The
Disabled in the Law of Torts."



For more information about the National Federation of the Blind,
please visit <http://www.nfb.org/>www.nfb.org.



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