Disability Rights Bar Association

Peter Blanck Featured In SU News: Focus on Disability Rights: Q&A With BBI’s Peter Blanck https://bbi.syr.edu/2025/11/peter-blanck-qa/
Syracuse University has long been a leader in disability policy, rights and advocacy. For the past 20 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) and its chairman, University Professor Peter Blanck, have been at the forefront of this work. A nationally recognized expert in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, Blanck joined BBI at its founding in 2005. He is principal investigator on a recent $4.6 million grant from the U.S.

Peter Blanck Featured In SU News: Focus on Disability Rights: Q&A With BBI’s Peter Blanck - Burton Blatt Institute – Syracuse University Syracuse University has long been a leader in disability policy, rights and advocacy. For the past 20 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) and its chairman, University Professor Peter Blanck, have been at the forefront of this work. A nationally recognized expert in the Americans with Disabilitie...

Congratulations to Gay Grunfeld and her team at RBGG and the Prison Law Office for this important victory in the 9th Circuit! The Court upheld the district court’s order remedying custodial staff misconduct and abuse of class members with disabilities in the CA prison system. Remedies include body warn cameras, new staff misconduct investigation and discipline system and more!

Our clients are the heroes—they came forward with more than 100 declarations and many suffered violent retaliation and additional punishments (segregation and new charges) as a result.

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