Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityMarch 7th Agenda
JUVENILE DEFENSE 40 YEARS POST-GAULT
MARCH 7, 2007
Northwestern School of Law
Lincoln Hall, 357 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
AGENDA
11:00
Welcome
Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Professor, Director, Children & Family Justice Center (CFJC), Northwestern University School of Law
Betsy Clarke, President, Juvenile Justice Initiative
11:10
Keynote: Implications of Brain Development Research in the Post-Gault Era
Marty Beyer, PhD, Clinical Psychologist
12:00
Lunch - Box Lunch Distribution in Lowden Hall
Video – on Gault – shown in Lincoln Hall
12:30
Implications of Gault in Today's Juvenile Justice
Simmie Baer, Clinical Professor, Supervising Attorney, CFJC
Jackie Bullard, Office of State Appellate Defender, Springfield
Linda Uttal, Office of Cook County Public Defender
Eileen Hirsch, Wis. Office of the State Public Defender, Madison
Arden Lang, 4th District, Office of State Appellate Defender
1:45
Caselaw & Legislative Updates/Updates-Department of Juvenile Justice
Jackie Bullard and Betsy Clarke
2:15
BREAK
2:30
Juvenile Sex Offender Act - Challenges
Josette Skelnik, OSAD - Chicago
Tamar Sirkin, Office of the Cook County Public Defender
D.J. Tegeler, Private Practitioner, Kane County
Santiago Durango, OSAD -Ottawa
Kadi Weck, OSAD - Elgin
3:30
Using International Law In Appeals In Juvenile Cases
Bernardine Dohrn
ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Marty Beyer
Marty Beyer is a juvenile justice and child welfare consultant. She has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University. Her work focuses on how a young person’s cognitive, moral and identity development, trauma, and disabilities affected the offense, their impact on competency and how they must be considered in planning rehabilitative services. She recently developed a plan for girls in the Connecticut juvenile justice system and policy and staff training regarding treatment of LGBT youth in Hawaii. She is working with the D.C. juvenile justice system to implement Youth Family Team Meetings and design services for girls. She also assisted in the implementation of statewide strengths/needs-based child welfare practice in Alabama and Oregon and litigation in Massachusetts or intensive home-based services to meet the needs of children in the juvenile justice, child welfare and mental health systems funded by Medicaid. She is currently working with the Los Angeles and New York City child welfare agencies.
co-sponsored by:
CHILDREN & FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
ILLINOIS OFFICE OF THE STATE APPELLATE DEFENDER
JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE
