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 at BLS & on the Bar Exam.
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 (May 17, 2024) 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.
