Americans with Disabilities Act
Employment Restrictions
Immunization
Student Records and Information

Americans with Disabilities Act (Accommodations for Disabled Students)
Brooklyn Law School has endeavored to create a barrier-free environment by providing easy access to its building elevators with lowered and Braille-identified pushbuttons, restrooms with facilities for the disabled and lowered special telephones. The Student Services Office works closely with disabled students to assist them in all aspects of their law school lives. A special scholarship fund provides assistance to a financially deserving disabled student each year.

The Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Officer for Brooklyn Law School is the Registrar, Suzanne M. Dennis. If you need more information about accommodations for students with disabilities, send an email to suzanne.dennis@brooklaw.edu, or phone (718) 780-7913.

Employment Restrictions
The American Bar Association has adopted guidelines that a student may not work in excess of 20 hours per week while attending school on a full-time basis (Standard 304(f), Interpretation 2). The Law School has the burden to show that it has adopted and enforces policies assuring that full-time students devote substantially all working hours to the study of law, including policies relating to class scheduling, attendance requirements, and performance standards.

Each full-time student is required to file an employment form with the Registrar's Office stating his/her place of employment and the number of hours worked there. Although there are no employment restrictions for part-time students, each part-time student is required to file an employment form for information purposes.

Download and print the Employment Form (PDF).

Immunization

Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccination
Meningitis Vaccination

Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination
New York State Public Health Law 2165 requires graduate and professional level students to demonstrate acceptable proof of immunity against measles, mumps and rubella to the schools in which they are enrolling. The law applies only to students born on or after January 1, 1957.

Entering students are required to submit proof of immunization. Your immunization information must be filed with Nancy Balzano in the Registrar’s Office by fax at (718) 780-7548 or by mail at Brooklyn Law School, Registrar’s Office, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 no later than Aug. 1 in order to attend classes that following fall.

Brooklyn Law School is required by New York State law to enforce this requirement. As part of the compliance procedure, Brooklyn Law School submits an annual report to the New York State Department of Health Immunization attesting to the status of our students’ immunizations. Brooklyn Law School is also subject to audits by the State. Note: Fines resulting from any such audit conducted by the State that arise from an individual student’s failure to comply with this law will be passed on to that student.

Required Vaccines
One of the following vaccines or test is required:

• Two measles vaccines, one mumps vaccine and one Rubella vaccine
• Two measles, mumps, rubella vaccines (MMR1 and MMR2)
• The Titer test showing immunity to measles, mumps and rubella.

Acceptable Proof of MMR Immunization
You may submit one of the following as proof of MMR immunization:

• The Brooklyn Law School MMR Immunization Form (PDF) completed and signed by your doctor
• A copy of your doctor-certified vaccine record
• An immunization health record from your undergraduate or high school

Exceptions
Proof of MMR immunization is not necessary if any of the following exceptions apply:

• If you are a student born before January 1, 1957
• If you had the disease and your doctor signs a note indicating the date you had the disease
• If you are unable to receive a vaccine for medical reasons and your doctor writes a note
to this effect and signs it
• If you are unable to receive a vaccine for religious reasons and you submit documentation. In the event of an outbreak of measles, mumps or rubella, you will not be allowed to attend class.

Meningitis Vaccination

New York State Public Health Law §2167, signed into law on July 22, 2003, requires that all postsecondary students enrolled for at least six (6) semester hours during the semester provide to their educational institution either (1) proof of immunization against meningococcal meningitis or (2) a signed form indicating that they have been informed about the risks of meningococcal meningitis and have declined to be vaccinated.

Students must complete and return the form (downloadable from the link below) to the Office of the Registrar no later than Aug. 1. Failure to do so may result in de-registration and exclusion from the Law School. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print PDF’s (download free software).

• Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccination Response Form (PDF)
• Fact sheet on meningitis and vaccination from the National Meningitis Association (PDF)

Additional information regarding the risks of meningococcal meningitis is available at the following websites:

• New York State Department of Health
• National Meningitis Association
• Center for Disease Control

A list of local health-care providers who regularly stock the meningitis vaccine can be found through the following website:

• Meningitis Vaccine Provider (MVP) Network.

Student Records and Information
Brooklyn Law School complies with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which is designed to protect your rights with regard to education records maintained by the Law School. Under the Act, a student has the following rights:

• The right to inspect and review education records maintained by the institution that pertain to him or her
• The right to challenge the content of records on the grounds that they are inaccurate, misleading or a violation of his or her privacy or other rights
• The right, with certain exceptions, to control disclosures from his or her education records

Under FERPA, the Law School may release certain “directory information” to appropriate parties at the Law School’s discretion. Directory information consists of: a student’s name, address, telephone number, email address, date and place of birth, dates of attendance, degree and awards received, previous schools attended and similar information. If a student does not wish this information to be released, the student should file a written request to the Registrar’s Office on the form provided by that office for this purpose. This request should be submitted prior to August 15 of each academic year.

A written policy detailing how the Law School will comply with the provisions of the Act is on file, and a copy can be obtained from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. Telephone: (718) 625-2200. Students also have the right to file complaints with the FERPA Office of the United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C. 20201, regarding alleged violations of the Act.