Friday, November 16, 2012
Freedom of Choice at the End of Life
Patients' Rights in a Shifting Legal and Political Landscape
A Justice Action Center Symposium Cosponsored with the New York Law School Law Reviewand the Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families
Welcome by Peter J. Strauss, Symposium Chair, Adjunct Professor, New York Law School and Kathryn L. Tucker, JD, Director of Legal Affairs, Compassion & Choices, Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School/Los Angeles
The concept that individuals have the right to choose the manner and time of their death and the right to decline unwanted treatment has been a relatively recent development, as is the law that a person does not lose these rights upon incapacity. Individual rights are not uniformly recognized in practice, however, and there are many limits on when and how they can be enforced. This conference will address a broad range of issues including impediments to honoring those rights, advance planning tools for persons to ensure compliance with their choices and how to enforce them, legislative and decisional developments, surrogate decision-making for patients whose wishes are not known, pain management and palliative care, hospice, aid in dying, ethical dilemmas in decision-making, medical ineffectiveness of treatment ("futility"), concerns of persons with disabilities, the effect of religion on law and policy, and how the media treats these issues.
Conference registration is now open. Click here to register now. If you have questions about this program please contact JAC@nyls.edu.
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
This program has been approved for a maximum of six (6) credits of continuing legal education (CLE) credit in professional practice for both transitional and non-transitional attorneys.
Additional support provided by the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging; the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association; Compassion and Choices of New York; and Collaborative for Palliative Care, Westchester/NYS Southern Region