"The issues she takes on are crucial―not solely the subject areas of reproductive rights and law, or public policy lenses and judicial impact in women’s and children’s lives, but also the more difficult and fundamental questions of how these ‘hot topics’ can be approached so as to make the most of the good will of all and the force of free discussion for social learning.... she brings a strong, evolving and distinctive perspective to the discussion." ―Emily Fowler Hartigan
In Abortion and Dialogue, Ruth Colker argues that the state falsely views the woman and the fetus as having conflicting needs when it intervenes in decisions regarding preganancies. Colker's feminist-theological perspective on reproductive health issues encourages both pro-choice and pro-life advocates to consider how the value of life is implicated in discussions of reproduction.
Colker argues that theology can contribute to our understanding if we apply the concepts of love, compassion, and wisdom to problems identified by feminist theory and to actual concrete situations: the impact of abortion regulations on poor female adolescents; the judicial treatment of abortion regulations; state intervention into women’s decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. Colker concludes by examining effective and respectful family-planning strategies that truly help women in making reproductive choices.

Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law

Politics & Social Sciences

Colker, Ruth

Women's Studies

Indiana University Press

Pregnant Men: Practice, Theory, and the Law

"An important contribution to the fields of feminist jurisprudence and feminist theory."Â —Mary Anne Bobinski, University of Houston Law CenterÂPregnant Men shows how to implement anti-essentialist and equality perspectives in teaching, writing, and the practice of law. Because there are no "pregnant men," equality theory is difficult to formulate in a reproductive health context. Instead, Colker examines cases involving men who are similarly situated to pregnant women—and shows that pregnant women are, in fact, treated far worse than "almost-pregnant" men. The individual stories she tells are themselves fascinating, and they demonstrate Colker’s model of a more practical feminist theory.

Social Sciences

Discusses abortion from a feminist-theological perspective and explores weaknesses in pro-life and pro-choice arguments, including the failure of both sides to address the larger issue of reproductive health

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

This Nutshell presents an overview of the major federal disability laws with emphasis on the statutes, regulations, and significant points of substantive and procedural law. The fourth edition includes significant focus on the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), including its 2008 Amendment. Features coverage on constitutional rights; the definition of "disabled"; Rehabilitation Act of 1973; employment discrimination; programs and services; and housing, education, and transportation. Also reviews the many relevant areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including the 2004 Amendments.

Federal Disability Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Milani, Adam

Specialties

West Academic Publishing

When they go low, we learn: an examination of mudslinging in contemporary American politics—and how the left can find its footing to achieve structural reform in this mess.\nThe rules of the public discourse game have changed, and The Public Insult Playbook argues that the political left needs to account for the power of vitriol in crafting their theories for social and political change. With this book, noted constitutional law expert and disability rights advocate Ruth Colker offers insights into how public insults have come to infect contemporary public discourse—a technique not invented by but certainly refined by Donald Trump—and, importantly, highlights lessons learned and tools for fighting back.\nPublic insults act as a headwind and dead weight to structural reform. By showcasing the power of insults across a number of civil rights battlegrounds, The Public Insult Playbook uncovers the structural nature of personal attacks, and offers a blueprint for a legal and political strategy that anticipates the profound but poorly understood damage they can inflict to whole movements. Illustrating how completely the tactic has been adopted and embraced by the American right wing, the book catalogues how public insults have been used against people with disabilities, immigrants, people seeking abortions, individuals who are sexually harassed, members of the LGBTQ community, and, of course, Black Americans. These examples demonstrate both the pervasiveness of the deployment of insults by the political right and the ways in which the left has been caught flat-footed by this tactic. She then uses the Black Lives Matter movement as a case study to consider how to effectively counter these insults and maintain an emphasis on structural reform.

The Public Insult Playbook: How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform

Philosophy

University of California Press

When is Separate Unequal?: A Disability Perspective (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)

This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an "anti-subordination perspective," Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals with disabilities. In some contexts, she argues for more tolerance of disability-specific programs and, in other contexts, she argues for more disability-integrated programs. Her highly practical investigation includes the topics of K-12 education, higher education, employment, voting, and provision of health care. At the end of the book, she applies this perspective to the racial arena, arguing that school districts should be given latitude to implement more use of racial criteria to attain integrated schools because such environments are most likely to help attain substantive equality from an anti-subordination perspective. The book measures the attainment of equality not on the basis of worn-out mantras but instead on the basis of substantive gains.

Cambridge University Press

The purpose of this book is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the ADA, including the sections governing employment (Title I), public entities (Title II), and public accommodations (Title III). The book focuses on the major components of the ADA, with extensive reference to the implementing regulations and accompanying guidance statements--essential building blocks for a complete understanding of the Act. It also covers a wide range of additional topics, such as education, housing, insurance, and the protection of newborns with disabilities. Because the ADA intersects several other federal statutes, such as the IDEA, the FHAA, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, cross-references to these and other statutes are frequently provided.
A companion book, The Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook: Statutes and Regulatory Guidance, includes reference material relevant to interpreting federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability. The Handbook includes the statutory language of each of the five Titles of the ADA. In addition, with respect to Titles I, II, and III, the Handbook includes the regulations and interpretive guidance promulgated by the EEOC and the United States DOJ. The Handbook also includes reference material relevant to interpreting Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1998, as well as excerpts from the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further, the Handbook contains the text of the IDEA, the Department of Education Regulations implementing the IDEA, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Law of Disability Discrimination

Grossman, Paul

Carolina Academic Press

A companion book, The Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook: Statutes and Regulatory Guidance, includes reference material relevant to interpreting federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability. The Handbook includes the statutory language of the ADA as amended. In addition, the authors have included regulations, section-by-section analysis, and technical assistance promulgated by the EEOC and DOJ. The Handbook also includes statutory, regulatory and guidance documents for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1998, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the IDEA, the EEOC Compliance Manual on Employee Benefits. The Handbook also contains the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook

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Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law

Pregnant Men: Practice, Theory, and the Law

Pregnant Men: Practice, Theory, and the Law

Abortion and Dialogue: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and American Law

Federal Disability Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

The Public Insult Playbook: How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform

When is Separate Unequal?: A Disability Perspective (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)

When is Separate Unequal?: A Disability Perspective (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series)

The Law of Disability Discrimination

The Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook