James L. Schmeling
Interim Co-Director
- Contact Information:
Phone/Voicemail: (319) 335-8458
E-mail: james-schmeling@uiowa.edu
Fax: (319) 335-9764 Mailing address:
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University of Iowa College of Law
Law, Health Policy and Disability Center
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000
Curriculum Vita (.doc format)
James Schmeling, J.D., is Interim Co-Director and formerly Associate Director of the Law, Health Policy & Disability Center (LHPDC) in the University of Iowa College of Law. He also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling in the College of Education. He is a policy researcher and administrator for the LHPDC. As an administrator co-directs the LHPDC, and he is responsible for coordination of all Center projects with their various sponsors and he supervises the directors of the LHPDC’s research, technology, and technical assistance and outreach teams. As a researcher in the LHPDC, he has focused on policy barriers, civil rights, and legal issues of importance in employment, technology for independent living and environmental access.
Mr. Schmeling is project director for the National Council on Disability’s ADA Employment Study, and is a senior researcher for the RRTC on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. He also currently is a senior researcher for two DOL funded projects, one a technical assistance project for Workforce Investment grantees and Disability Program Navigators, the other the National Center on Workforce and Disability. His studies include small business and entrepreneurial activity, employment policy, work incentives, corporate culture, disability programs and policy, tax policy and asset accumulation and information technology in employment, government, and education. He has published on entrepreneurial activity of individuals with disabilities, Supreme Court interpretations of the ADA, the applicability of the ADA to Ticket to Work Employment Networks, access to courts, the study of corporate culture, and disability as a component of diversity.
Mr. Schmeling received his J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa in 1999 and his B.A. in political science from Iowa State University in 1997.