Seminar Agenda

September 10, 2003

Nationally recognized expert on Mental Disability Law, Professor Michael Perlin of New York Law School and Robert Whitaker, award-winning author of "Mad in America," a social and medical history of our society's treatment of the severely mentally ill, will be presenting this seminar on Mental Health Disability Law September 10-11 in Anchorage.

9-10:30:           Separating Fact From Fiction: What 50 Years of Research Really Shows About the Long-Term Efficacy of Neuroleptics.  --  Robert Whitaker

10:30-10:45:     Break

10:45-12:00:     Sanism and pretextuality  -- Michael L. Perlin

12:00-1:           Lunch

1-2:15:             Involuntary civil commitment, and mental health courts  -- Michael L. Perlin

2:15-3:             Right to treatment, the right to sexual interaction  and  other institutional rights  -- Michael L. Perlin

3:15-3:30         Break

3:30- 4:45        Right to refuse treatment (civil)  -- Michael L. Perlin

September 11, 2003

9-10:                Deinstitutionalization, Olmstead, and the ADA  -- Michael L. Perlin

10-11               Incompetency to stand trial  -- Michael L. Perlin

11-11:15:         Break

11:15- 12:15     Other criminal incompetencies (waiver of counsel, guilty pleas and pre- and post-trial competencies)  -- Michael L. Perlin

12:15-1:15:       Lunch

1:15-2:30         Right to refuse treatment (criminal)  -- Michael L. Perlin

2:30-3:30:        Other criminal trial process issues related to mental disability(confessions, privilege against self-incrimination)  -- Michael L. Perlin

3:30-4:30:        Summarize two days  -- Michael L. Perlin

5:00-6:00:        Ethical Issues in Mental Health Law  -- Michael L. Perlin (Optional separate or extra 1 hour)