This presentation may be helpful for lawyers, judges, mental health professionals and advocates.  Kaiser will explore the current lived reality of persons with mental health problems and/or intellectual disabilities, and present an overview of the CRPD and its basic provisions:  why the Convention is significant and how it can be used as an advocacy tool. Guest presenter, H. Archibald (Archie) Kaiser is a Professor at the Schulich School of Law and is cross-appointed to the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University. At the Law School, he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal. In the Department of Psychiatry, he presents Legal Issues in Psychiatry in the Residency Training Program. He has been a director of several organizations, including the Canadian Mental Health Association, Nova Scotia Division, the Healthy Minds Co-op and reachAbility and was a member of the Mental Health and the Law Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. He is currently a Provincial Advisor to People First Nova Scotia. He has been active in several law reform campaigns. His publications are fairly evenly split between Criminal Law and Mental Disability Law. Seating is limited.  Organized through the McKercher Lecture Series, and CREATE Justice Monday, October 16th, 2017 at 12:00 (Noon) Room 254, College of Law University of Saskatchewan For more information visit the website here.