Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement

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Editor's Note: Numbers in brackets in the text refer to pages in the reviewed work.

Notes

¹Pub. L. No. 101-336, 104 Stat. 327 (1990) (codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12213 (2006)), amended by Pub. L. No. 110-325, 122 Stat. 3553 (2008). The book and this review focus on United States law.

²527 U.S. 516 (1999).

³Pub. L. No. 110-325, 122 Stat. 3553 (2008) (effective Jan. 1, 2009).

⁴Some of this discussion is found in Chapter 8.

⁵Sobering studies of outcomes in ADA employment cases include Ruth Colker, Winning and Losing Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 62 Ohio St. L.J. 239 (2001), and Ruth Colker, The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Windfall for Defendants, 34 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 99 (1999).

⁶ See Michael Waterstone, The Untold Story of the Rest of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 58 Vand. L. Rev. 1807 (2005).

⁷29 U.S.C. §§ 151-169 (2006).

⁸ See Karl E. Klare, Judicial Deradicalization of the Wagner Act and the Origins of Modern Legal Consciousness, 1937-1941, 62 Minn. L. Rev. 265 (1978).

⁹ See Mark C. Weber, Disability and the Law of Welfare: A Post-Integrationist Examination, 2000 U. Ill. L. Rev. 889. An important innovation would be non-means-tested partial disability benefits, a social program found in much of the rest of the advanced world. Id. at 943-47.

¹⁰ See Andrew Kull, The Color-Blind Constitution 164-81 (1992).

¹¹For an example, see Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 196-97, 898 (1988).

¹²For examples of various approaches to feminism, see Mary E. Becker, Prince Charming: Abstract Equality, 1987 Sup. Ct. Rev. 201; Catharine A. MacKinnon, Reflections on Sex Equality Under Law, 100 Yale L.J. 1281 (1991); Robin L. West, The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory, 3 Wis. Women's L.J. 81 (1987).

¹³For an illuminating discussion of the construction of Asian-Americans as a minority group, see Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy 174-84 (2000).

¹⁴This point should not be overstated. I too have tried in recent years to find ways to reconcile some of the conflicts. See Mark C. Weber, Disability Rights, Disability Discrimination, and Social Insurance, 25 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 575 (2009).