To promote the ABA's commitment to justice and the rule of law for persons with mental, physical, and sensory disabilities and to promote their full and equal participation in the legal profession. Click here for more information.
Comprehensive Disability Law Service (CDLS)
CDLS subscribers receive the following items:
+ Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter
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"The Reporter is my favorite disability rights publication because it keeps me up-to-date with the current case law and legal highlights." Published since 1976, the Reporter provides timely summaries of reported legal developments over a two-month period in 22 subject areas (same areas covered in Mental & Physical Disability Law Digest) covering disability discrimination law and civil and criminal mental disability law. Available in print and online. Annual Subscribers Receive:
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+ Mental & Physical Disability Law Digest
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"For practitioners and academics alike, the Digest is an invaluable tool for researching disability issues." Used together with the Reporter or alone, the Digest is a loose-leaf publication that provides a concise and comprehensive summary and analysis of current disability law in 22 subject areas covering disability discrimination law and civil and criminal mental disability law, with citations to cases, statutes, regulations, books, and articles. Available in print and online. Annual Subscribers Receive:
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+ Comprehensive Disability Law Reference Manuals
Disability Discrimination Law, Evidence and Testimony
Understand disability discrimination laws and minimize current problems to create better legal remedies. This book explains and analyzes key aspects of disability discrimination law from several different perspectives to help you through the myriad federal and state statutes, court cases, and regulations that may apply, in whole or in part, to each particular discrimination issue. 
Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony
Guides lawyers, judges, law students, and forensic and other mental disability professionals through the maze of civil & criminal laws, standards, evidentiary pitfalls, and forensic practices that characterize this area of the law. It summarizes what empirical evidence exists to support or raise concerns about these legal standards and forensic practices when they are introduced in the courtroom.
+ Online Reporter Research Database
This database allows CDLS subscribers to search for summaries of federal and state court opinions, legislation, and regulations that have appeared in the Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter (2003 to present) by key words, subject area, jurisdiction, case name, date, and subject key numbers.
+ Online Digest
CDLS subscribers may access summaries of federal and state cases, legislation, and regulations cited in the Mental & Physical Disability Law Digest that have appeared in the Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter.
