UCLA School of Law

This Article bridges theory and practice to develop an analytical framework for incorporating DisCrit and Disability Justice into American legal analysis. It aims to identify a method for adapting and applying core tenets of DisCrit and core principles of Disability Justice to address concrete legal issues or legal problems by questioning: What are the ways that we can recognize DisCrit or Disability Justice in legal analysis? How do the insights of DisCrit and Disability Justice inform the framing of legal issues, or inform the analysis of legal problems? To develop a coherent framework for American law, we develop a new theoretical and analytical concept-Disability Critical Legal Studies (DCLS)-that incorporates the central components of DisCrit and Disability Justice in order to develop a comprehensive framework for thinking critically about disability in American law.