Mental Health Disability Law Seminar

September 10-11, 2003

Anchorage, Alaska

Nationally recognized expert on Mental Disability Law, Professor Michael Perlin of New York Law School and Robert Whitaker, award-winning medical writer from the Boston Globe will be presenting a seminar on Mental Health Disability Law September 10-11 in Anchorage.

September 10, 2003

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)