On this page, the United Nations (quoting a WHO Fact Sheet) notes: "An estimated 1.3 billion people experience significant disability. This represents 16% of the world’s population, or 1 in 6 of us."
BLS Library guide Casebooks, Study Aids & Guides for Law School Courses & Bar Exams includes this page: Requesting Accommodations for BLS Law School Exams.
BLS Library guide Disability Rights (authored by BLS Reference Librarian & Adjunct Professor of Law Eric Yap) is available to support students in the BLS Disability and Civil Rights Clinic.
BLS Library guide: Writing Competitions for Law Students includes this page: Disability Law & Rights (which currently describes the Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition).
United Nations page: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) includes the text/ratification status of CRPD and its optional protocol.
U.S. Congressional Research Service provides these reports: The Rights of Students with Disabilities Under the IDEA, Section 504, and the ADA (Sept. 26, 2025) and The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part B: Key Statutory and Regulatory Provisions (updated Aug. 20, 2024).
BLS librarians thank the members of the BLS Disability Advocacy Law Students Association for their resource recommendations. To stop the scrolling of the book carousel below, please click the icon (circle enclosing 2 lines) beneath the book covers.
Digital book available through Bloomsbury Open Access Collection.
Excerpt from book's description: "[L]ooks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry."
Study aid in digital format that circulates for 2 hours (like a Reserve book).
Open access ebook available through Creative Commons, CC BY-ND.
