From the Supreme Court to Nuremberg to the Human Genome Era: The Continuing Legacy of American Eugenics

Dr. Lombardo is the author of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell and A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era. He will discuss the history of Eugenics in the U.S., including an overview of involuntary sterilization legislation in over thirty states, the Buck v. Bell case, and the impact of the Eugenics movement in the U.S. on Nazi policies of racial cleansing. He will also discuss the subsequent use of eugenics to determine population control policies internationally and various legal issues raised by genetic testing in the Human Genome Era. Don’t miss this exciting lecture by the foremost legal expert on the history of eugenics in the U.S.

 

Additionally, there will be an ethics presentation “The Lawyer’s Obligation to a Client with Diminished Capacity” (“A Judge’s Obligation to a Party with Diminished Capacity”) by Andrew B. Sasso, Esq. and Joshua Magidson, Esq.