William N. Myhill
Adjunct Professor of Law
BBI Director of Legal Research and Writing
College of Law
Syracuse University
300 Crouse-Hinds Hall
Biography:
B.A. Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
M.Ed. Special Education, The University of Texas at Austin
J.D. The University of Iowa
Professor Myhill is the Director of Legal Research and Writing with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), where he oversees disability law and policy research initiatives. Currently he is Project Director for the five-year “Demand-side Employment Placement Models” project grant from the National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research (See projects). He directs the legal analysis of the latest ADA cases for the Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center, and is Executive Editor of the Disability Law & Policy e-Newsletter. With over 20 years of professional experience in law and education, Professor Myhill has collaborated with and provided services for diverse individuals with disabilities and cultural/linguistic differences through extensive research, teaching, and advocacy.
Professor Myhill’s research interests include legal and policy developments affecting children with disabilities, youth-to-work transition, invisible disabilities, reasonable accommodations, essential job functions, assistive technology, universal design principles, and accessible electronic & information technology. As a Faculty Associate with the Center for Digital Literacy he collaborates on many of these and related issues. Formerly, Professor Myhill served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea, was Managing Editor for the Iowa Law Review, and for twelve years served as a special education teacher working with children having diverse special needs. In that capacity, he acquired expertise in facilitating the development of, and implementing, individualized education programs.
Publications:
LAW REVIEWS
Law & Policy Challenges for Achieving an Accessible Information Society in the EU: Lessons from America
William N. Myhill
European Yearbook on Disability Law (forthcoming 2010).
Disability and Aging: Historical and Contemporary Challenges
William N. Myhill & Peter Blanck
10 Marquette Elder’s Advisor (forthcoming 2010).
Employment of People with Disabilities: Twenty-five Years Back and Ahead
Peter Blanck, Meera Adya, William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant & Pei-Chun Chen
25 Law & Inequality 323–353 (2007).
The State of Public Education and the Needs of English Language Learners in the Era of ‘No Child Left Behind’
William N. Myhill
8 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 393–447 (2004).
http://bbi.syr.edu/publications/myhill/Myhill_NCLB.pdf
No FAPE for Children with Disabilities in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Time to Redefine a Free Appropriate Public Education
William N. Myhill
89 Iowa Law Review 1051–91 (2004).
http://bbi.syr.edu/publications/myhill/Myhill_IALawRev.pdf
PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
Workplace Accommodations: Ergonomist as Mediator in the Interactive Process
Naomi Schreuer, William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, Tal Aratan-Bergman & Peter Blanck
Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, & Rehabilitation, vol. 31 (forthcoming 2009).
The Promise of Municipal WiFi and Failed Policies of Inclusion: The Disability Divide
Paul M.A. Baker, Jarice Hanson & William N. Myhill
Information Polity, 14(1-2), 47-59 (2009)
Developing Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities in the National Disability Community: Theory, Practice, and Policy.
William N. Myhill, Derrick L. Cogburn, Deepti Samant, Benjamin Addom & Peter Blanck
Assistive Technology Journal, 18(1), 32-49 (2008).
Electronic Doors to Education: Study of High School Web Accessibility in Iowa
David Klein, William Myhill, Linda Hansen, Gary Asby, Susan Michaelson & Peter Blanck
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 21(1), 27–49 (2003).
BOOKS & CHAPTERS
Workplace Accommodations: Empirical Studies of the ADA
Peter Blanck, Helen Schartz, D.J. Hendricks, Kevin Schartz & William N. Myhill
In Assessing the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (M. Stein & S. Estreicher, eds.)
Norwell, MA: Kluwer Publishers (forthcoming 2009).
Individuals with Cancer in the Workforce and Their Federal Rights (pp. 255-276)
Peter Blanck, William N. Myhill, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, Joanna Morales & Paula Pearlman
In Cancer Survivorship and Work (M. Feuerstein, ed.)
New York, NY: Springer Publishing (2009).
Distance Education Initiatives and Their 21st Century Role in the Lives of People with Disabilities (pp. 1–39)
William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, David Klein, Shelley Kaplan, María Verónica Reina, & Peter Blanck
In Focus on Distance Education Developments (E.P. Bailey, ed.)
Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
Asset Accumulation & Economic Security (pp. 93-102)
Peter Blanck, William N. Myhill, Phoebe Ball, Michael Morris & Steve Mendelsohn
In Employer Perspectives on Workers with Disabilities A National Summit to Develop a Research Agenda September 19–20, 2006.
Washington, DC: Interagency Committee on Disability Research (Sept. 2007),
http://www.icdr.us/documents/ISE_Report-Employer-Perspectives.pdf
Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, Casebook Supplement
Peter Blanck, Eve Hill, Charles D. Siegel, Michael Waterstone & William N. Myhill
St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West (2006).
ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
Americans with Disabilities Act
William N. Myhill, Naomi Schreuer & Peter Blanck
In Encyclopedia of Issues in U.S. Public Policy
Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishing (forthcoming 2010).
Voice Recognition Software
William N. Myhill
In Encyclopedia of American Disability History (S. Burch, ed.)
New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc. (2009).
Labor and Employment
Tal Araten, Janikke Vedeler, William N. Myhill & Peter Blanck
In Encyclopedia of American Disability History (S. Burch, ed.)
New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc. (2009).
The Care of Children with Disabilities: Legal and Public-policy Perspectives (pp. 275-276)
Peter Blanck & William N. Myhill
In The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (2009).
SELF PUBLICATIONS (Welcoming Reviews)
The First One Hundred Years of Special Education in America? 1817 to 1925
William N. Myhill
Knol (Aug. 2008), available at http://knol.google.com/k/william-myhill/
Scholarly Presentations:
2009
Presenter, Law & Policy Challenges for Achieving an Accessible Information Society in the EU: Lessons from America, Mid-term Conference of NCoE Welfare REASSESS 2009: Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model (May 18-20, 2009), Oslo, Norway.
Discussant, People with Intellectual Disabilities–Always
Segregated? By Anna Kitelsaa, Mid-term Conference of
NCoE Welfare REASSESS 2009 (same)
Co-Presenter with Mary Young, Ann Andreosatas & Allen Thomas, Maximizing Human Capital: Employees with Disabilities: Building Your Leadership Pipeline, A Conference Board Webcast (Apr. 7, 2009). http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/upcomingWebcast.cfm?id=1900
Presenter, Disability and Aging: Historical and Contemporary Challenges, The Convergence of Elder and Disability Policy, 2009 Marquette Elder’s Advisor Symposium (Apr. 2, 2009), Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI.
Presenter, Effective Communication—Emergency Preparation & Response Including People of Diverse Abilities, 'Alarming Disregard: Communication Preparedness in National Emergencies' Panel, 4th Annual Communications Law & Policy Society Symposium, “Memo to President Obama: Communication Policy in the New Administration” (Feb. 28, 2009), Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY.
Moderator, Global and Domestic Issues in Technology Access Panel, Digital Freedom Initiative: Global Access to Information and Technology for People with Disabilities (Feb. 5–6, 2009), Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
2008 Co-Presenter with Daniel F. Goldstein & Claudia Van Gerven, Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability under Disability Laws, Practising Law Institute One-Hour Audio Briefing (Nov. 6, 2008). Archived at http://www.pli.edu/product/mp3_detail.asp?id=53756
Co-Presenter with Phoebe Ball, ADA Case Law Update: 2008-2009 ADA Audio Conference Series. Great Lakes ADA Center and the National Network of ADA Centers (Oct. 21, 2008), Audio/Print Archive forthcoming at http://www.adagreatlakes.org/ProgramsAndServices/AudioConferencing/
Co-Presenter with Shelley Kaplan, 2008 Disability Law Update for Georgia Service Providers, Georgia Rehabilitation Association 2008 Annual Training Conference (Sept. 16–19, 2008), Pine Mountain, GA.
Presenter, 21st Century Distance Education Initiatives for Students with Disabilities, 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning (Aug. 5–8, 2008), Madison, WI. Archived at
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/search_detail.cfm?presid=12738
Co-Panelist with Naomi Uziel Schreuer, Tal Araten-Bergman, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, & Deepti Samant, Experiences of People with Disabilities During Recent Crises: Lessons Learned and Import for People and Policies, Society for Disability Studies’ 2008 Conference (June 18–21, 2008), New York City, NY.
Presenter, Implications of the Growing Distance Education Movement for Students with Disabilities: Benefits, Challenges, and the Application of Disability Law, ‘Disability and Equal Access Issues in Communications Law and Policy’ Panel, 3rd Annual Communications Law & Policy Society Symposium (Feb. 22, 2008), Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY.
2007 Co-Presenter with Peter Blanck & Jack Humburg, Court Accessibility Webcast, Hosted by the Independent Living Research Utilization program of the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (Dec. 5, 2007). Archived at http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/archive/2007/12-05-JH.html
Moderator / Facilitator, Road Map Out of Poverty for People with Disabilities, World Bank Web Conference (Dec. 3, 2007), Washington, DC, New York, NY, Syracuse, NY.
Guest Speaker (via Web Conference), Wireless Grids Research Workshop: Building a Virtual Organization for Wireless Grids Researchers (June 8, 2007), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
2003 Presenter, Culture, Language, & Disability in K-12 Education: Misplacement of Children in Special Education Programs, Education Panel, 8th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, “Justice for All? Exploring Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation within Disability Law,” University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA.
2000 Presenter, Best Practices for Instructing Children with Emotional Disorders and Behavior Problems, Texas Middle School Association Conference, Austin, TX.
1999 Presenter, Best Practices for Instructing Children with Emotional Disorders and Behavior Problems, Central Texas Teachers’ Conference, Round Rock, TX.
1994 Poster Session, Texas Assistive Technology Partnership Project, Learning Disabilities Association of Texas Conference, Houston, TX.