Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland)
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
Office of Student Accessibility
The Office of Student Accessibility serves as the accessibility office, providing accommodations, education, consultation and advocacy for students with disabilities. In addition to our work with students with disabilities, we also support the campus wide community with accessing resources to support overall health and wellness.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (503) 768-7192
Fax: (503) 768-7197
Office of Student Accessibility
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 112
Portland OR 97219
Courses
Companion Animal Law
At its core, this seminar provides an intensive examination of contemporary companion animal legal, ethical, and policy issues in the American judicial and legislative arenas. It introduces students to many of these evolving issues, including, but not limited to, service and support animals, breed specific legislation, pet trusts, state regulation of pets and pet ownership, and some of the broader, yet related, contextual issues that warrant investigation. In doing so, the course explores the challenges and opportunities available to advocates interested in companion animal issues.
Employment Discrimination
This class examines the federal laws governing employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age and disability. The course will explore the policy grounds for employment discrimination laws and the various legal models created to address discrimination, including individual disparate treatment, systemic disparate treatment, disparate impact, harassment, affirmative action, and reasonable accommodation. Statutory coverage will include: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, and 42 U.S.C. section 1981.
Student Organizations
Disability Allied Law Student Association
The Lewis & Clark Law School Disability Allied Law Students Association’s (DALSA) purpose is to create accessible spaces on campus, provide much-needed representation for disabled students at Lewis & Clark, and organize students around disability rights. DALSA is Lewis and Clark’s affinity group for people who identify as disabled, and their allies. The group centers around physical disabilities, mental health, sensory impairments, learning disabilities, communication disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other impairments that may limit or substantially alter major life activities. Our goal is to deploy an intersectional and inclusive approach that is informed by the varied experiences that people with disabilities have based on their race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, visibility of disability, religion, immigration status, ability, and class. We seek to go beyond a medical diagnosis model and to focus on the different social and professional experiences of individuals with disabilities and how that relates to the study and practice of law. DALSA will work both independently and co-dependently with student groups and the Lewis & Clark Law administration to provide programming to educate the law school community about how disability is experienced by different groups of people and how that experience is codified by the law. DALSA aims to amplify the awareness of people with disabilities in all areas of the law.