Peter Blanck

Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University

Dr. Blanck is University Professor at Syracuse University, which is the highest faculty rank granted to eight prior individuals in the history of the University. He is Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University.

Blanck holds appointments at the Syracuse University Colleges of Law, and Arts and Sciences, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, School of Education, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse, Blanck was Kierscht Professor of Law and director of the Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center at the University of Iowa. Blanck is Honorary Professor, Centre for Disability Law & Policy, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Blanck received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, a Juris Doctorate from Stanford University, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University.

Blanck has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and received grants to study disability law and policy. Blanck and Robin Malloy are editors of the Cambridge University Press series Disability Law and Policy.

Blanck is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), and President of Raising the Floor (RtF) USA. He is a former member of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, a former trustee of YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network, a former Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program, a former Fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and has been a Mary Switzer Scholar. Prior to teaching, Blanck practiced law at the Washington D.C. firm Covington & Burling, and served as law clerk to the late Honorable Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Episodes

Episode 103b: Meet the Director! Anjali Forber-Pratt of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
Episode 101: Disability Employment Policies in the United Kingdom
Episode 83b: Celebrate. Learn. Share. The ADA turns 30. The Future of Disability Rights with Lex Frieden
Episode 82: History and the Future of Disability Rights: A Conversation with Judy Heumann
Episode 74: Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Global Perspective with Ambassador Luis Gallegos of Ecuador
Episode 70: Celebration of the ADA Anniversary – a conversation with Senator Tom Harkin
Episode 60: Supported Decision-Making (SDM) and Conservatorship