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Montserrat Pereña Vicente to participate in Saks Institute Spring Symposium 2018

April 9, 2018

Saks Spring Symposium 2018, Held Against My Will, Mental Illness, Consent and the Law

BBI Senior Fellow Montserrat Pereña Vicente, Professor of Law and Senior Researcher at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain will participate in the Saks Institute Spring Symposium 2018 “Held Against My Will: Mental Illness, Consent and the Law” presented by the Saks Institute for Mental Heal Law, Policy, and Ethics. The event is being held at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Professor Pereña will take part in a Legal/International Conversation along with Judith Klein, Director of the Open Society Mental Health Initiative and Candice Player, Continue Reading

Logue and Blanck to present webinar on Civil War Veterans and PTSD

June 29, 2017

BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue and BBI Chairman Peter Blanck to present webinar on Civil War Veterans and PTSD

We encounter PTSD in numerous settings these days. It is most commonly associated with veterans, and some scholars have suggested that PTSD affected combatants from ancient conflicts through World War II and in today’s conflicts. Continue Reading

BBI Hosts Dr. Ayelet Gur, Leading Israeli Researcher on Persons with Disabilities, for Joint Research Project

June 26, 2017

Dr. Ayelet Gur, a leading Israeli professor and researcher on persons with disabilities, is a visiting scholar in residence at BBI during June 2017. Dr. Gur, along with Professor Arik Rimmerman of Haifa University and BBI Chairman Peter Blanck, is conducting a groundbreaking study on the deinstitutionalization of Israelis with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Continue Reading

Logue and Blanck Collaborate for Clara Barton Museum

April 28, 2017

BBI Senior Fellow Larry Logue and BBI Chairman Peter Blanck Collaborate for Clara Barton Museum Website on “A Creature of Its Time: The Pension Bureau”

BBI Senior Fellow, and former Mississippi College Professor, Dr. Larry Logue and BBI Chairman Dr. Peter Blanck have written an online article for the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum. “A Creature of Its Time: The Pension Bureau” describes the federal Pension Bureau’s struggles to withstand the flood of applications from Union veterans with disabilities and intense pressure from political parties and interest groups after the U.S. Civil War. Continue Reading

BBI to Advise Lewis County on Emergency Communications Operating Procedures

April 5, 2017

The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University (BBI) was chosen by Lewis County, New York, through the competitive bid process, to assist the county in meeting their New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Statewide Interoperable Communications Grant requirements. The grant is focused on governance and training for Lewis County’s new multijurisdictional Land Mobile Radio system for public safety. Continue Reading