Prof. Laverne Jacobs presented her work, “Do ‘disabled’ voices make a difference?: Exploring equality and fairness in the enactment of accessibility standards” as part of the Summer Speaker Series at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley on July 31, 2014, and at the University of British Columbia’s Law Faculty Colloquium on September 24, 2014.
Jacobs' lectures presented preliminary findings from her current qualitative legal study. The study examines the ways in which government mediates the equality rights claims of persons with disabilities and the competing interests of other stakeholders in accessibility standard-setting processes such as those associated with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).