Disability Education at Canadian Law Schools

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dc.contributor.authorvan Vugt, Andrea
dc.contributor.supervisorLapper, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-18T16:52:08Z
dc.date.available2024-04-18T16:52:08Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Public Administration
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts MA
dc.description.abstractThis project explores how Canadian law schools are incorporating disability education into their course offerings and course content and how disability education in law school has the potential to affect access to justice for disabled people. Disability education at law schools includes teaching law students about laws that affect people with disabilities and/or providing perspective and awareness of the lived experience and history of disabled people. This project draws on findings from a literature review, a basic organizational scan of Canada’s 18 law schools, and 9 interviews with faculty that teach at Canadian post-secondary institutions in the Faculty of Law. Disabled people face financial barriers, political barriers, and cultural barriers that affect their access to justice. Disability intersects with identities of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, and religion. Within these intersections, there are groups of people who receive inequitable treatment in the justice system because they belong to one or more of these marginalized groups. Yet, without disability as an intentional topic in legal education, these intersections may never be explored in the classroom and students will not have an opportunity to learn about the importance of equitable access to justice for disabled people.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16367
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectdisability
dc.subjectaccess to justice
dc.subjectCanadian law schools
dc.subjectdisability education
dc.titleDisability Education at Canadian Law Schools
dc.typeproject

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