Michael Perlin
Michael Perlin is Professor of Law, Director of the Mental Disability Law Program, and Director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project in the Justice Action Center, at New York Law School. Formerly Deputy Public Defender for Mercer County (Trenton), NJ, Director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the NJ Department of the Public Advocate, and Special Counsel to the NJ Public Advocate, Perlin has written 20 books and over 200 articles on all aspects of mental disability law.
He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Mental Disability Rights International, is on the editorial boards of multiple professional journals, and spent over 15 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. He has taught and done advocacy training workshops on every continent, and is currently working with Asian disability advocates to seek the
creation of a Disability Rights Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific Region.
He has taught sections of his online courses in Nicaragua and Japan, and has worked with advocates in China to create online programs there. His recent scholarship has focused primarily on the relationship between international human rights and mental disability law, and on the implications of neuroimaging evidence for the criminal trial process.