Research Papers
We've compiled links to research papers concerning disability in the legal system

Disabled Perspectives on Legal Education: Reckoning and Reform Lilith Siegel & Karen M. Tani
1 Aug 2025
Disabled Perspectives on Legal Education: Reckoning and Reform Lilith Siegel & Karen M. Tani https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1746&context=home

Basas, Carrie Griffin, The New Boys: Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession
1 Aug 2025
Basas, Carrie Griffin, The New Boys: Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession (October 27, 2009). Berkeley Gender Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1290739

Vargiu, Paolo, Disability and Arbitration: Equality, Diversity, Very Little Inclusion
18 Jun 2025
Vargiu, Paolo, Disability and Arbitration: Equality, Diversity, Very Little Inclusion (October 01, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4981247 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4981247
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S. Ortoleva, “Inaccessible justice: Human rights,
persons with disabilities and the legal system
22 Jun 2025
Ortoleva, Stephanie, Inaccessible Justice: Human Rights, Persons with Disabilities and the Legal System (2011). ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 17, No. 297, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2127888

Reflections on a New Study that Examines Discrimination and Bias Reported by Lawyers: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise’s National Study of the Legal Profession Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2021
Kellye Testy and J.D. Bodamer Elizabeth
15 Jul 2025

Grenardo, David, What About Us? How Law Schools Can Help Historically Underrepresented Law Students Develop Their Professional Identities (March 21, 2024).
25 Jul 2025
Grenardo, David, What About Us? How Law Schools Can Help Historically Underrepresented Law Students Develop Their Professional Identities (March 21, 2024). Mercer Law Review Vol. 75 (Symposium Issue, 2024 Forthcoming), U of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-07, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4767790