UTS LSS Accessibility Panel 2025: Intersectionality, Law Reform and Shaping Inclusive Futures

Please join us at the UTS LSS Accessibility Panel 2025: Intersectionality, Law Reform, and Shaping Inclusive Futures!

Explore how legal institutions can move beyond compliance-based models of accessibility to embrace transformative, rights-based and community-led frameworks for disability justice.  Bringing together leading voices in legal scholarship, advocacy, technology, and lived experience, the panel will ask:

• What does a truly accessible legal system look like?

• Who gets to shape it?

• What role must future lawyers play in building it?

Designed for law students and aspiring legal professionals, this conversation aims to provide critical insight into how disability intersects with legal systems and institutions, while also offering practical tools for advancing accessibility and justice in legal education, workplaces, and reform.

🎤 Meet the Panellists:

• Kate Eastman SC (Human rights barrister at New Chambers and NSW Law Reform Commissioner)

• Dr Karen O’Connell (Professor at UTS Faculty of Law)

• Giancarlo de Vera (CEO of Being - Mental Health Consumers)

• Dr Scott Avery (Professor of Indigenous Disability Health and Wellbeing at the Girra Maa Indigenous Health at UTS School of Public Health)

🗣️ Moderated by Kiki Loke, Accessibility Representative of the UTS Law Students’ Society.

💬 There will be an interactive Q&A session where you can ask questions directly to our panellists and join the conversation.

🤝 Meet and network with leading academics and advocates who are driving real change in disability justice. This is your chance to gain insights that could shape your legal career and expand your professional network.

♿️ The venue is fully accessible with wheelchair access, an infrared hearing system, and a Zoom livestream option for remote participation.

🥪 Light catering will also be provided!

Everyone is welcome - law students, staff, community members, and allies.

For any questions or to discuss your accessibility needs, please contact Kiki Loke at accessibility@utslss.com