Michael Waterstone

BA, summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles
JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

Background

After law school, Michael Waterstone clerked for the Honorable Richard S. Arnold on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, then worked as an associate in the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles, & Olson for three years. From 2003-2006, Waterstone taught at the University of Mississippi Law School. He joined Loyola's faculty in the fall of 2006.

Waterstone is a nationally-recognized expert in disability and civil rights law. He is one of the co-authors of a leading casebook on disability law and his recent articles are in the Harvard Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review, amongst others. He is an associated colleague with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, an affiliated researcher with the Burton Blatt Institute, and has consulted on projects with the Human European Consultancy, the National Council on Disability, the World Bank, and the Vietnam Assistance for the Handicapped.

In 2012, Professor Waterstone received a grant from the Japan Foundation to work on shared understandings of US and Japanese Disability Law.  He was also elected to ALI in 2012.

Selected Scholarship

Articles

• "Disability Cause Lawyers," 53 William and Mary Law Review 1287 (2012) (with Michael Stein and David Wilkins).
• "Cause Lawyering for People with Disabilities," 123 Harv. L. Rev. 1658 (2010) (with Michael Stein and David Wilkins).
• "Returning Veterans and Disability Law," 85 Notre Dame Law Review 1081 (2010).
• "Disabling Prejudice," 102 Northwestern Law Review 1351 (2008) (with Michael Stein).
• "A New Vision of Public Enforcement," 92 Minn. L. Rev. 434 (2007).
• "Disability, Disparate Impact, and Class Actions," 56 Duke Law Review 861 (2006) (with Michael Stein).
• "The Untold Story of the Rest of the Americans with Disabilities Act," 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 1807 (2005).
• "Lane, Fundamental Rights, & Voting," 56 Alabama Law Review 793 (2005).
• "Civil Rights and the Administration of Elections - Toward A Universal Voting Standard," 8 Journal of Gender, Race, & Justice 99 (2004) (symposium on disability law).
• "Constitutional and Statutory Voting Rights for People with Disabilities," 14 Stanford Law & Policy Review 353 (2003) (symposium on disability law).
• "Let's Be Reasonable Here: Why the ADA Will Not Ruin Professional Sports," 00 BYU Law Review 1489 (2000).

Books and Book Chapters

• DISABILITY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY: CASES AND MATERIALS, Second Edition, with Blanck, Hill, and Siegal, West Group Publishing (2009).
• DISABILITY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW & POLICY, with Blanck, Hill, and Siegal, West Group Publishing (2003).
• Natural Disasters and People with Disabilities, chapter in LAW, PROPERTY, & SOCIETY, Ashgate Press (2007) (with Janet Lord and Michael Stein).
• Disability Law, chapter in ENCYCLOPEDIA ON DISABILITY, Sage Publications. (2004)

Representative Policy Work

Finding the Gaps: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Laws in the United States to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY, (co-authored with Michael A. Stein), June 2008

Public Service

Waterstone is a current member of the California State Bar's Commission on Access and Fairness, a former Commissioner on the American Bar Association's Commission on Physical and Mental Disability, the former Chair of the American Association of Law School's Section on Disability Law, and a former board member of the Disability Rights Legal Center.

In the News

He frequently lectures on disability and civil rights law, and has provided media commentary for the New York Times, Voice of America, and other TV and radio outlets. He has testified before the United States Senate on issues relating to voters with disabilities and older voters.