Seminar
Agenda
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
12:00-1: Lunch
1-2:15: Involuntary civil commitment, and mental health courts -- Michael L. Perlin
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30- 4:45 Right to refuse treatment (civil) -- Michael L. Perlin
9-10:
Deinstitutionalization,
Olmstead, and the
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