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Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00		Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10		Dean's Welcome JoAnne A. Epps Dean, Beasley School of Law, Temple University


9:10-9:45		*Keynote Address*
		Nina Kohn Associate Professor of Law Syracuse Law School


		*Elder Rights - The Next Civil Rights Movement*

	Panels
9:45 -11:00	Healthcare, Self-Determination and Autonomy
	Moderator
	Naomi Karp Senior Strategic Policy Advisor Consumer & State Affairs Team AARP Public Policy Institute

	Speakers
	Michele Mathes Director of Education and Research Programs Center for Advocacy and the Rights and Interests of the Elderly	Health Care and the Aged: Arguing Equality in the Absence of a Right

	Lois Shepherd Professor of Law, UVA Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities	The End of End of Life Law and Ethics

	Barbara A. Soniat Associate Professor of Social Work Catholic University Director, Center for Global Aging	Autonomy and Vulnerable Adults


11:00-11:15	*Break*

11:15-12:30	Guardianship, Vulnerability, and Autonomy
	Moderator
	Alison E. Hirschel Public Interest/Public Service Faculty Fellow University of Michigan Elder Law Attorney Michigan Poverty Law Program

	Speakers
	Carolyn Dessin Professor of Law University of Akron School of Law	Arbitrability and Vulnerability

	Larry Frolik Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law University of Pittsburgh Law School	Guardianship; Vulnerability & Protection versus Autonomy & Independence

	Elizabeth Loewy Attorney in Charge Elder Abuse Unit Special Victims/Special Prosecutions Bureau New York County District Attorney’s Office	Elder Economic Exploitation


12:30-1:15	*Lunch*

1:15-2:30	Elders, Family, and the State
	Moderator
	Kathy Mandelbaum Associate Professor of Law Director, Graduate Tax Program Temple University Beasley School of Law

	Speakers
	Kim Dayton Professor of Law Director of the Center for Elder Justice and Policy William Mitchell Law School	Municipal Law as the Future of Elder Law?

	Alicia Kelly Associate Professor of Law Widener Law School	The Economics of Caring & Sharing for Elder Couples

	Debby Kroll Associate Clinical Professor of Law Director, Elderly Law Project Temple University Beasley School of Law	Adult Caregivers in a Rapidly Aging Society

2:30-3:45	Elders and Long-Term Care
	Moderator
	M.T. Connolly Director, Life Long Justice

	Speakers
	Eric Carlson Directing Attorney National Senior Citizens Law Center	Institutionalized Elders

	Daniel Redman Del Martin Memorial LGBT Elder Advocacy Initiative	LGBT Elders and Long-Term Care

	Evelyn Tenenbaum Lawyering Professor Albany Law School Professor of Medical Education Albany Medical College	Reconciling Decision-making Theories to Protect Intimacy Among Demented Nursing Home Patients


3:45 - 4:00	*Break*


4:15-5:30	Intersectionality
	Moderator
	Sue Westwood Keele University, UK

	Speakers
	Peggie R. Smith Charles Nagel Professor of Law Washington University in St Louis	Intimacy, Race & Personal Preferences in Home Care

	Hilary Meyer Director, National Resource Center on LGBT Aging	Federal Policy, Activism and LGBT Older Adults

	Nancy J. Knauer I. Herman Stern Professor of Law Temple University Beasley School of Law	Critical Theory and Elder Law


5:30 -	*Reception*

	The Symposium is sponsored by the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. Conference papers will be published in a special issue of the Law Review in Spring 2012. Attendees are eligible to receive up to seven Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Credits, one of which qualifies as Ethics Credit.