11/28 - Time: 1 p.m.
Justice Barry Schaller on Veterans & PTSD
Justice Barry Schaller will speak to the university community on topics covered in his recently released book -- Veterans on Trial: The Coming Court Battles Over PTSD -- probing the legal challenges veterans of war face when diagnosed with PTSD.
Justice Schaller recently retired as an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. As a retired Justice and a Judge Trial Referee, he continues to hear cases at the Connecticut Appellate Court and to mediate cases in the court system. He received his B.A. from Yale College in 1960 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1963. After practicing law for ten years, he was appointed to the Connecticut trial bench in 1974, the Appellate Court in 1992, and the Supreme Court in 2007. In addition to his faculty position at Trinity, he teaches appellate practice and procedure as a Clinical Visiting Lecturer at the Yale Law School and is a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University. He has also held an appointment as a visiting lecturer at the University of Connecticut School of Public Health. At the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, he has been an active member of working groups in neuroscience, public health, and human research ethics.
His first book, A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell, was published in 1997 (paperback edition, 2001) and received the Quinnipiac College School of Law Book Award. His next book, Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology, was published in November 2007. His most recent book, Veterans on Trial: The Coming Court Battles Over PTSD, was published by Potomac Books in June 2012. In May 2008, Justice Schaller was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Quinnipiac University School of Law.
The talk is being sponsored jointly by the Prelaw Society and the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Light refreshments will be served.
Location: Adanti Student Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Contact Information: Jonathan O'Hara, (203) 392-5618
