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Podcast: Albany Law School Podcast
Episode: Aging and Civil Rights - 2021 Nancy M. Sills ’76 Memorial Lecture
Description: Nina A. Kohn, a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and the David M. Levy Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, delivered the lecture - Aging and Civil Rights - on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.
Kohn’s research and teaching focus on elder law and the civil rights of older adults and persons with diminished cognitive capacity. Her scholarly work addresses issues in family caregiving, supported and surrogate decision-making, financial exploitation of the elderly, vulnerability and discrimination in old age, the practical and constitutional implications of elder abuse legislation, and the potential for an el...