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Adolescent Brains   
and Juvenile Justice:
New Insights from
Neuroscience, Genetics
and Addiction Science
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Sandra Day O'Connor
U.S. Courthouse
401 W. Washington St.
Phoenix
For more information
contact Andrew Askland
at Sandy.Askland@asu.edu
or 480.965.2465
9 a.m. Welcome

Chief Judge Roslyn O. Silver, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
9:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m Panel I: Frontiers of adolescent brain science

Jay N. Giedd, Chief of the Unit on Brain Imaging, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health

Gina M. Vincent, Assistant Professor, and Director, Translational Law and Psychiatry Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Kent Kiehl, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of New Mexico, and Director of the Mobile Imaging Core and Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience, Mind Research Network

Michael Caldwell, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin –Madison, and Senior Staff Psychologist, Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center

Moderator: Gary Marchant, Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics, and Executive Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Break
11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Keynote address

Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
12:10 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (not provided)
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Panel II: Applying neuroscience in the courtroom

Judge Aimee Anderson, Maricopa County Superior Court, Juvenile Division

Mark A. Wellek, Phoenix psychiatrist specializing in adolescent and young adult psychiatry

Kent Cattani, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals/Capital Litigation Division, Arizona Attorney General’s Office

Terry A. Mulroney, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School,

Moderator: Lyn Gaudet, Research Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
2:45 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. Break
3:05 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Panel III: Looking forward – neuroscience, genetics and the future of juvenile justice policy

Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Chair in Law, and Director, Criminal Justice Program, Vanderbilt University Law School, and Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Elizabeth Cauffman, Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine

Marsha Levick, Co-founder, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center

Gary Marchant, Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics, and Executive Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Moderator: Sarah Buel, Faculty Director, Diane Halle Center for Family Justice, and Clinical Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University