Michael Ashley Stein

Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

1585 Massachussetts Avenue

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Cambridge, MA 02138

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University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights

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1.

Disability Human Rights

California Law Review, Vol. 95, 2007
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 04 May 2006
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Priestley V. Fowler (1837) and the Emerging Tort of Negligence

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Nov 2002
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Innovations, Lost Opportunities, and Future Potential

Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2010
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Jan 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, human rights, united nations, treaties

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The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 83, 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-37
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein and Janet Lord
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and American University
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Disability, Disability Human Rights Treaty, International Law, Human Rights

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Beyond Disability Civil Rights

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 58, p. 1203, 2007, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-38
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein and Penelope J. S. Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Disability, Civil Rights, Human Rights, United Nations, Employment Law

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Disabling Prejudice

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Disabling Prejudice

Northwestern University Law Review, Forthcoming, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-3
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2008
Michael Evan Waterstone and Michael Ashley Stein
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Disabling Prejudice

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-08
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Apr 2009
Michael Ashley Stein and Michael Evan Waterstone
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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Disability, the Supreme Court, and Equal Protection: Standing at the Crossroads of Progressive and Retrogressive Logic in Constitutional Classification

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Apr 2002
Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein
San Francisco State University - Department of Philosophy and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Labor Markets, Rationality, and Workers with Disabilities

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Integrating the Internet

83 George Washington Law Review 449 (2015), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 231
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2017
Bradley A. Areheart and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Tennessee College of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, Internet, integration, Web, public accommodations, Title VII, discrimination, ADA, First Amendment, self-governnance, self-expression

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Book Review - Cause Lawyering for People with Disabilities

Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2010-10, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-27, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-48
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013
Michael Ashley Stein, David B. Wilkins and Michael Evan Waterstone
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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Accommodating Every Body

81 University of Chicago Law Review 689 (2014), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 218
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 25 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2017
Michael Ashley Stein, Anita Silvers, Bradley A. Areheart and Leslie P. Francis
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, San Francisco State University - Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
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disability, accommodations, discrimination, ADA, ADAAA, equality of opportunity

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Disability, Disparate Impact, and Class Actions

Duke Law Journal, Forthcoming, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2006-22
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 08 May 2006
Michael Ashley Stein and Michael Evan Waterstone
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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Jacobus tenBroek, Participatory Justice, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Vol. 13, p.167, Janet E. Lord, ed., 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 9-36
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerations

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2012
John J. Donohue, Michael Ashley Stein, Christopher L. Griffin and Sascha Becker
Stanford Law School, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law and University of Warwick
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antidiscrimination law, employment, wages, disabled labor force, ADA

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Disability Cause Lawyers

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 53, 2011, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-26, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 11-17
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013
Michael Evan Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein and David B. Wilkins
Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession
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Disability and the Social Contract

The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 1635, 2007, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-39
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein and Anita Silvers
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and San Francisco State University - Department of Philosophy
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disability, capability theory, jurisprudence

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An Equality Paradigm for Preventing Genetic Discrimination

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Dec 2002
Michael Ashley Stein and Anita Silvers
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and San Francisco State University - Department of Philosophy
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Disability, Employment Policy, and the Supreme Court

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Nov 2002
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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A Theory of Expressive International Law

Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming, Drexel College of Law Research Paper No. 2008-A-03
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 May 2006 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2008
Michael Ashley Stein and Alex C. Geisinger
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
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Credit Scores, Lending, and Psychosocial Disability

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 1807, 2015, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-16, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 2765649
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 16 May 2016
Christopher P. Guzelian, Michael Ashley Stein and H. S. Akiskal
Texas State University School of Business, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Psychology
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Credit Scores, Loans, Lending, Mental Disability, Psychosocial Disability

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The Disability–Employability Divide: Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity

113 Michigan Law Review 877 (2015), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 246
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2018
Bradley A. Areheart and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Tennessee College of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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equal opportunity, disability, benefits, employment, bottlenecks, administrative law, welfare, social security disability insurance, social security income, social security administration, work-first initiatives

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Social Rights and the Relational Value of the Rights to Participate in Sport, Recreation, and Play

Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 249, 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 9-25
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jan 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, sports, human rights, economic, social and cultural rights

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Workplace Disabilities

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW AND ECONOMICS, Kenneth G. Gau-Schmidt, Seth D. Harris and Orly Lobel, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08/09-5
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Aug 2008
Seth D. Harris and Michael Ashley Stein
Northeastern University - College of Professonal Studies and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, accommodation, workplace accommodation, job accommodation, Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, human rights, economic rights, workiers with disabilites, employees with disabilities, employment, employment rate, economics of disability, economics of accommodations, economic analysis, in

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Rational Choice, Reputation, and Human Rights Treaties

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 6, 2008, Drexel College of Law Research Paper No. 2009-A-11, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Mar 2009
Alex C. Geisinger and Michael Ashley Stein
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Norms, Social Norms, Rational choice, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Expressive Law

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Persons with Disabilities and Their Sexual, Reproductive, and Parenting Rights: An International Comparative Analysis

11 Frontiers of Law in China 53, March 2016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
Robyn Powell and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Oklahoma - College of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, sexual rights, reproductive rights, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, human rights, parenting, sexual and reproductive rights

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Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions

American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 55, p. 284, 2015, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 2533727
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2015
Michael Ashley Stein, Christopher P. Guzelian and Kristina Guzelian
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Texas State University School of Business and Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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torts, medical malpractice, British history, evidence-based medicine, EBM

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Mainstreaming Disability in the United Nations Treaty Bodies

Journal of Human Rights, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Aug 2016
Kjersti Skarstad and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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disability, UN, treaty bodies, human rights

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Human Rights and Genetic Discrimination: Protecting Genomics’ Promise for Public Health

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 377, 2003 , William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-40
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein and Anita Silvers
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and San Francisco State University - Department of Philosophy
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Self-Perception of Disability and Prospects for Employment Among U.S. Veterans

50 Work 49 (2015) 49-58, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-306
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 26 Feb 2015
Christopher L. Griffin and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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veterans, disability, employment

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Empirical Implications of Title I

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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“Long COVID,” Bodily Systems as ADAAA Major Life Activities, and the Social Model of Disability

2022 U. Chicago Legal Forum 159 (2022), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 532
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Leslie P. Francis and Michael Ashley Stein
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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Ability Apartheid and Paid Leave

120 Mich. L. Rev. 1247 (2022)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2022
Ryan H. Nelson and Michael Ashley Stein
South Texas College of Law Houston and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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sanism, psychosocial disability, employment discrimination, paid leave

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Ability Diversity in the First-Year Law School Classroom

71 J. Leg. Educ. 202 (2021) (published in 2023)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Jun 2023
Ryan H. Nelson and Michael Ashley Stein
South Texas College of Law Houston and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
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diversity, equity, inclusion, law school, disability

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The Normative Value of a Treaty as Opposed to a Declaration: Reflections from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 27, Stephen P. Marks, ed., 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-35
Posted: 09 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, human rights, development, international cooperation, poverty

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Accessing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, Malcolm Langford, Eibe Reidel, eds., with Janet E. Lord, 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-34
Posted: 23 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2014
Michael Ashley Stein and Janet Lord
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and American University

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disability, human rights, development, economic, social and cultural rights, nondiscrimination, equality

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Future Prospects for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSON WITH DISABILITIES: EUROPEAN AND SCANDINAVIAN PERSPECTIVES, Gerald Quinn & Oddny Mjoll Arnardottir, eds., 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-28
Posted: 22 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, united nations, human rights, jurisprudence, social justice

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Process, Substance, and Prospects

INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES, p. 495, Felipe Gomez Isa & Koen De Feyter, eds., 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-31
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2015
Michael Ashley Stein and Janet Lord
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and American University

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disability, human rights, treaties, united nations, development, expressive law

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Natural Disasters and People with Disabilities

LAW AND RECOVERY FROM DISASTER: HURRICANE KATRINA, Robin Paul Malloy, ed., 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-29
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, humanitarian aid, natural disasters, human rights, development, united nations

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Participatory Justice, the UN Disability Human Rights Convention and the Right to Participate in Sport, Recreation and Play

THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES, Jukka Kumpuvuori & Martin Scheinin, eds., United Nations Publications, 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-32
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, social rights, economic and social rights, particiaptory justice, united nations, human rights

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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

THE UNITED NATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL, Philip Alston & Frédéric Mégret, eds., United Nations Publications, 2009, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-33
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2010
Michael Ashley Stein and Janet Lord
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and American University

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disability, human rights, United Nations, treaties, jurisprudence, rule of l aw

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a Vehicle for Social Transformation

NATIONAL MONITORING MECHANISMS OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-30
Posted: 20 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2015
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, human rights, development, unted nations, international law

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The Paradigm Shift from Welfare to Rights

THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION, THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: A COMMENTARY, Gerard Quinn et al. eds., 2011, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-26
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, human rights, united nations, jurisprudence, treaties, public international law

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Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2008, p. 933, 2008, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-04
Posted: 07 Mar 2009
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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Generalizing Disability

University of Michigan Law Review, Vol. 102, p. 1373, 2004
Posted: 26 Aug 2005
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, employment discrimination, conmstitutional classification

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Under the Empirical Radar: An Initial Expressive Law Analysis of the Ada

Posted: 09 Apr 2004
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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Same Struggle, Different Difference: Ada Accommodations as Antidiscrimination

Posted: 09 Apr 2004
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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ADA, Disability, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination

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The Law and Economics of Disability Accommodations

Posted: 16 May 2003
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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disability, employment discrimination, law and economics

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Americans with Disabilities Act

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 3rd Edition, Charles Scribner's Sons (an imprint of the Gale Group), Forthcoming
Posted: 14 Mar 2002
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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Discrimination: Disabled

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 3rd Edition, Charles Scribner's Sons (an imprint of the Gale Group), Forthcoming
Posted: 26 Feb 2002
Michael Ashley Stein
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

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