


	Below you can see all upcoming meetings or relevant agenda items. All items will be moved to the Past Meetings section of the website one day after the date they are scheduled for. To sign up for future meetings, please complete this form and follow the email directions. All content of the presentation descriptions on this page, and all content of the presentations themselves, are the responsibility of the presenters themselves and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Program in Psychiatry & the Law or its participants. Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Presenter: Day before Thanksgiving Title: No meeting today Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Presenter: Jackie Grimmett PsyD, ABPP Title: The Impact of Appearance and Gender on Credibility in the Courtroom Background: This workshop will identify challenges to experts with unique characteristics, with an emphasis on gender expectations, and will provide strategies to minimize their impact. Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Presenter: Michael Perlin, JD Title: How "folk psychology" has contaminated forensic mental health law: The powers of heuristics and the fraudulence of “ordinary common sense Background: “Folk psychology” is a “ prescientific, commonsense conceptual framework” used to explain behavior, employed extensively by judges and jurors in all aspects of forensic mental health law. Importantly, empirical studies have disproved a number of legal folk psychology theories of human behavior and mental processes. Yet, it continues to hold sway in courtrooms. Details: This misuse is contaminated further by our reliance on heuristic devices (e.g,, the vividness heuristic, a cognitive-simplifying device through which a “single vivid, memorable case overwhelms mountains of abstract, colorless data upon which rational choices should be made”) and false “ordinary common sense” (a self-referential and non-reflective” way of constructing the world). These devices affect every aspect of testimony in forensic cases, and are regularly misused by fact-finders in criminal cases. We believe that the use of therapeutic jurisprudence – a legal school of thought that seeks to determine whether legal rules, procedures, and lawyer roles can or should be modified to increase their therapeutic potential while not subordinating due process principles – is the best way to correct the harms done by the misreliance on folk psychology. Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Presenter: Meetali Jain, JD. Director of Tech Justice Law Project Title: What can we do with Deceptive and Abusive Chatbots? Background: Your Undivided Attention podcast of humanetech.com invited Meetali Jain to discuss the tragic story of Sewell Setzer, a 14 year old boy who took his own life after months of abuse and manipulation by an AI companion from the company Character.ai. The question now is: what`s next? Megan has filed a major new lawsuit against Character.ai, its co-founders, and Google in Florida, which could force the companies–and potentially the entire AI industry–to change their harmful business practices. So today on the show, we have Meetali Jain, director of the Tech Justice Law Project and one of the lead lawyers in Megan`s case against Character.ai. Meetali breaks down the details of the case, the complex legal questions under consideration, and how this could be the first step toward systemic change. Also joining is Camille Carlton, CHT’s Policy Director. Details: In September 2023, Meetali Jain founded the Tech Justice Law Project. Over the course of her career, Meetali has worked as a lawyer, policy advocate, campaigner and educator. She started her career by representing detainees post-9/11 accused of terrorism, including at Guantanamo Bay, and by organizing in South Asian and Muslim communities impacted by surveillance and racial profiling. She litigated cases involving civil and human rights, immigrant justice, and corporate accountability. She worked at the Morrison & Foerster and Goldstein Demchak law firms, taught human rights and constitutional law in law clinics at American University, Seton Hall, and in law schools across South Africa. In 2017, while working as Campaign and Legal Director at Avaaz, Meetali began working on issues of disinformation and broader tech harms globally. In 2021, she joined Reset Tech where she focused primarily on issues of tech law and policy in the US. Meetali clerked for the Honorable Virginia Phillips in the U.S. Central District of California and for Justice Yvonne Mokgoro in the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She sits on the board of the Integrity Institute, Type Media Center, and is an advisor to the California Initiative for Technology and Democracy (CITED) and Design It For Us (DIFU), a youth-led movement to build better tech spaces for young people. Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Presenter: Kristopher Kringle, PhD Title: No meeting today Wednesday, January 1, 2025 Presenter: No meeting today Title: No meeting today Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, April 9, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Regular Meeting Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: Last meeting of the summer Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Presenter: Usual Participants Title: First meeting back

FILE LIBRARY

The Program in Psychiatry and The Law meets virtually on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 AM.

Check our meetings page regularly to find out about our upcoming meetings.

Our file library includes copies of the Amicus Briefs to which we have contributed: Althaus v. Cohen (PA) and Citizens for Health v. Thompson (Third Circuit).

Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Covid19 led us to virtual meetings - no in person meetings for now

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Friday, January 1, 2010
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