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About Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth Knox is a graduate of Southwestern University and Harvard Law School. Elizabeth has built her career around civil and disability rights. She has spent time working and interning for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas. While at Harvard, she was a research assistant for two professors and researched different topics related to international human and disability rights and the civil rights era. She earned the Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship and the James Vorenberg Equal Justice Summer Fellowship to support her summer work in civil rights. She was also a Harvard Law School Presidential Scholar.

After law school, Elizabeth clerked for the Honorable Robert Brack of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. She then worked in special education law before founding Access the Dream, a disability consulting practice. She continues to research and write about education and disability rights issues. Elizabeth is driven to help students of all backgrounds succeed in academic environments.

Do Disability Accommodations Apply with Online Classes?

August 26, 2020 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

Do Disability Accommodations Apply with Online Classes?For some students, online law school sounds like a dream. What’s not to love about rolling in to class in your pajamas or the infamous Zoom mullet? Business on top, party (pajamas) on the bottom. But for many law students, the switch to online programs has been incredibly stressful. Suddenly having to deal with technology glitches on top of staying engaged with everything going on in class introduces a new layer of tension.

This can be compounded for students with disabilities who now have to figure out new accommodations. When schools switched over to online classes in the spring after the shelter in place orders began, many students found that the accommodations that had served them well for in-person classes were meaningless. Law schools were poorly equipped to manage this transition, and students are concerned about more of the same failures this fall. This is a reasonable concern, so it is important to start advocating for your needs now. [Read more…] about Do Disability Accommodations Apply with Online Classes?

Feeling Fidgety? Use Different Tools to Focus

May 13, 2020 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

Feeling Fidgety? Use Different Tools to Focus.There are many ways to improve your focus as a law student, but sometimes the simplest things can be a huge help. Fidget spinners boomed in popularity a few years ago, and though their presence has faded, other fidget toys have entered the market. Fidgets are well documented as a tool to help people with disabilities such as anxiety or ADHD focus in environments like a classroom, but even if you don’t have one of these disabilities, a fidget may help you cope with the lack of focus that comes from ordinary law school stress. [Read more…] about Feeling Fidgety? Use Different Tools to Focus

Law School Parenting in the time of Covid-19

April 20, 2020 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

Law School Parenting in the time of Covid-19Stop. Breathe. Are you still holding yourself to perfectionistic standards? We’re in the middle of a global pandemic. The world has changed, and we have to change too. Law students are no exception. Your priority right now must be adjusting, keeping your sanity, and surviving. This load is doubled if you are a law student with kids. You are trying to process massive changes while also maintaining some normalcy. [Read more…] about Law School Parenting in the time of Covid-19

Can I Clerk with a Disability? (Short answer: YES)

November 27, 2019 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

The federal judicial clerkship hiring path is mysterious for most law students. If you’re lucky, your school has an office dedicated to helping you find a post-law school clerkship, but if that is not an option, you may feel unmoored in your search. Let’s talk a bit about applying for a clerkship as a law student with a disability. [Read more…] about Can I Clerk with a Disability? (Short answer: YES)

You Forgot to Request Exam Accommodations. Time to Panic?

September 23, 2019 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

You Forgot to Request Exam Accommodations. Time to Panic?Law school time defies logic. The first semester can be both a whirlwind and a total slog. Ideally, you have been briefing and outlining to prepare for final exams, but if you are a student with a disability, there is something else that you need to address before finals approach: exam accommodations. Your first-year grades can have an outsized impact on your job and clerkship search, so getting yourself in the right position to succeed on your exams is critical.

The best time to apply for accommodations is the summer before 1L begins, but if you find yourself in the middle of your first semester (or even later!), don’t panic. You would not be the first law student to realize that you need exam accommodations later into the school year, and you’re not even likely to be the only one in this boat this year.

Exam accommodations can range from extended time on all of your exams to a scribe to makeup tests for an unanticipated illness or sick family member. Different disabilities require different accommodations, but for the purposes of this post, we will focus primarily on requests for extended time.

[Read more…] about You Forgot to Request Exam Accommodations. Time to Panic?

Buy, Rent, Sell: What You Need to Know about Casebooks

August 21, 2019 By Elizabeth Knox Leave a Comment

Casebooks are important for more than building up your biceps. Though they are cumbersome, you will need them for every class your first year, and for most classes the final two years. Everyone knows how expensive law school is – students routinely take on six figures of debt just for the three years of tuition alone.

The sticker shock does not stop once school starts. There will be quite a bit to purchase before classes start, including your casebooks. The weeks before 1L classes begin, you will either get access to a book list or all of your class syllabi. Your default reaction may be to place an order with the campus bookstore. This is easy. You hand over hundreds of dollars (if I had gone the bookstore route my first semester, I would have paid north of $500), show up before classes start, and haul the books home. Here’s some good news: You don’t have to do this.

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