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Cass R. Sunstein, Caste and Disability: The Moral Foundations of the ADA, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev Online 21 (2008).


Abstract: Professor Sunstein proposes that the foundations of Emens’ approach can be linked with the notion that “morally irrelevant differences have been turned, without sufficient justification, into a systematic source of social disadvantage” and, thus, may be seen as a reflection of an anticaste principle that underlies American law. Thus, Emens’ focus on third-party benefits should be seen “not as a diversion from the fundamental goals of the ADA, but as an effort to reconceive and deepen them.”