Notes
The author is an attorney and Executive Director of Disability Advocates, Inc., a not‐for‐profit public interest law firm, which advocates for the rights and protection of persons with disabilities. For ten years, Disability Advocates has advocated for the rights and protection of human subjects of medical experiments, and in particular, the rights of children and mentally disabled human subjects in psychiatric research. He was one of the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs in T.D. v. New York State Office of Mental Health, 650 N.Y.S.2d 173, 65 U.S.L.W. 2439 (1st Dept. 1996), appeal dismissed, 91 N.Y.2d 860 (1997), a case which invalidated the human subject research regulations of the New York State Office of Mental Health.