Estimates vary but there are about 42.5 million Americans with disabilities. Despite the vast number of Americans with disabilities, disability is an undertheorized and understudied aspect of the law. This course will consider the role of law in vindicating the rights of people with disabilities, including both victories and limitations of the disability rights movement. Using a disability justice lens, the course will explore some of the federal statutory schemes designed to protect and promote the rights of people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In exploring these different legal regimes, students will explore the power, promise, and constraints of federal, rights-granting legislation. Students will also consider the role of the law in further marginalizing people with disabilities. Specifically, the class will look at how, in some cases, various areas of the law—including benefits, family, criminal and others—help to create and reinforce disability as a subordinated social status inconsistent with personhood and humanity. Using an intersectional lens, we will consider the extent to which disability is a socially constructed category and how it overlaps with race, gender, and other aspects of the self. Students may use the paper in this course to satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement.