Bio
Claudia Center was previously a Senior Staff Attorney in the Disability Rights Program of the national 老澳门开奖结果 Foundation, where she litigated cases that increase civil rights and civil liberties for persons with disabilities, and was actively involved in legislative, amicus, and appellate work. She was previously the director of the disability rights program at the Legal Aid Society 鈥 Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid At Work), where she founded the Workers鈥 Rights Disability Law Clinic at the Ed Roberts Campus. She played a key role in the passage of comprehensive amendments to the FEHA that succeeded in broadening protections for persons with disabilities in employment and housing. She argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett, a case that confirmed the scope of 鈥渞easonable accommodations鈥 for disabled employees. She has served as an adjunct professor teaching disability rights law at Hastings College of the Law and at Berkeley Law. Following law school, Ms. Center was a staff attorney at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America) in Washington, D.C. and a recipient of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She attended Berkeley Law (J.D., 1991) and Wesleyan University (B.A., 1987). In 2009, she received the Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights from the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law (now the Commission on Disability Rights).
Featured work
Dec 17, 2019
It鈥檚 Clear: In Oklahoma Cash Bail is Being Used as Ransom to Keep People Who Are Poor Behind Bars
Feb 3, 2017
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Has a Troubling History When Ruling on Disability Rights Cases
Sep 29, 2016
Police Kill Disabled People with Frightening Regularity. Keith Lamont Scott is Just the Latest Victim.
Jun 17, 2015
People With Disabilities Who Opt Out of 鈥榁oluntary鈥 Wellness Programs Will Pay the Price, and the EEOC鈥檚 Okay With That.
Mar 20, 2015
How Police Can Stop Shooting People With Disabilities