Law and Policy of the Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death

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FRIDAY, FEB 10, 2012
UC Hastings College of the Law
Alumni Reception Center
200 McAllister Street

SATURDAY, FEB 11, 2012
Stanford Law School
Room 190
559 Nathan Abbott Way

Sponsored by UC Hastings, the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium, and Stanford Law Center, the Conference on Law and Neuroscience will be a two-day event, beginning on Friday, February 10th, with a full day of panels at UC Hastings followed by a reception.  A second full day of panels and talks will take place at Stanford University on Saturday, February 11th. 

This conference will examine developments in neuroscience and the implications for law and policy.  The conference will begin Friday morning at UC Hastings with an introductory talk from Dr. Robert Sapolsky on the general themes of the two-day conference. Multidisciplinary panels and speakers over the two days of the conference will consider law and neuroscience issues as they arise throughout the human lifespan, beginning Friday morning with prenatal and infant brains, and ending Saturday afternoon with the neuroscience of aging and death.

This event is free and open to the public, but please be sure to register. CME and CLE credits offered for 2/10/12 only. See below for more info.

THE EVENT WILL ALSO BE LIVESTREAMED HERE.
 

Program:

7:30 – 8:45 AM REGISTRATION

8:45 – 9:00 AM WELCOME: Frank Wu, JD
Chancellor and Dean, University of California Hastings College of Law

9:00 – 9:50 AM OPENING ADDRESS: Robert Sapolsky, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Humanities and Science, School of Medicine
MacArthur Fellow
Research Associate, Institute of Primate Research Museums of Kenya

9:50 – 10:00 AM BREAK

10:00 – 11:15 AM PANEL I, Section 1
Assaults on Prenatal and Early Childhood Brain Development: What Can Be Done? Limits on Autonomy and Government Regulation

Moderator: Teneille Brown, JD
Associate Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Utah

Commentator: Kate Bloch, JD
Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Panel: Gideon Koren, MD, FACMT, FRCP(C)
Director, The Motherisk Program
Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Medicine and Medical Genetics, The University of Toronto

Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MD
Associate Professor in Residence, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

11:15 – 11:30 AM BREAK

11:30 – 12:30 PM PANEL I, Section II

Moderator: Teneille Brown, JD
Associate Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Utah

Commentator: Jaime King, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Panel:
Khiara Bridges, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Megan Schwarzman, MD, MPH
Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

12:30 – 1:00 PM LUNCH

1:00 – 1:45 PM LUNCHTIME SPEAKER: Lise Eliot, PhD
Associate Professor, The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science

1:45 – 2:00 PM BREAK

2:00 – 3:00 PM PANEL II
Relationships with Caregivers and Children's Neurobiological Development

Moderator: Lois A. Weithorn, PhD, JD

Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law

Panel: Victor Carrion, MD
Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Director, Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Regina Sullivan, PhD Research Profssor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine Developmental Behavioral Neurobiologist in the Emotional Brain Institute (EBI), the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

Ross Thompson, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis

3:00 – 3:15 PM BREAK

3:15 – 4:15 PM PANEL III
Inequality & Brain Development

Moderator: Osagie Obasagie, PhD, JD

Panel: Darlene D. Francis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University

Howard Pinderhughes, PhD
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

4:15 – 4:30 PM BREAK

4:30 – 5:30 PM PANEL IV
A Fred Friendly Discussion Regarding the Competency of Adolescents and Young Adults in Criminal Cases: Capital Cases and the Prospects for Rehabilitation with Life with the Possibility of Parole

Moderator: David Faigman, MA, JD

Panel: Ronald Dahl, MD
Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

Thomas Grisso, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School 

Beatriz Luna, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Elizabeth Scott, JD
Professor, Columbia University School of Law

5:30 – 7:00 PM CONCLUDING REMARKS & RECEPTION

Continuing Education Credits (offered February 10th only)

MCLE:
The O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This activity is approved for a maximum of  seven (7) MCLE credit. For CLE credit, please send your state BAR number and address to freya@uchastings.edu. On the day of the event, make sure to SIGN IN and SIGN out in order to receive credit.         

DOCUMENTS:     

• Symposium Bibliography
• Panelist Biographies
• Suggested Readings           

CME:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. UCSF is accredited by the ACGME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Presenting faculty has disclosed no conflict of interest for this event. Please send your address, title and organization to freya@uchastings.edu.

For Hotel & Travel info, please use this list of recommendations.

Thanks to our generous sponsors!

Hastings Law Journal

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

Morrison Foerster

Stanford Center on Longevity

Stanford Law School

Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences

UC Hastings College of the Law

The Vanderbilt University Joint-Degree Program in Law and Neuroscience