Students will explore the inter-relationships between law and mental disabilities through materials drawn from legal cases, statutes and policy writings. Mental health law is an emerging field that has sprung from the work of legislatures and the highest and lowest courts in the land, reflecting a variety of social aims related to persons with mental disabilities. These include treatment, habilitation, privacy, and the protection of civil liberties. In the minority of cases where mental disability and violence are connected, mental health law has also attempted to predict and prevent harm, consistent with the often-conflicting goals of the therapeutic community and the traditional criminal justice system.
This course will survey such issues as voluntary and involuntary commitment; mental health in the juvenile justice, schools and family law context; rights of institutionalized persons; right to treatment and right to refuse treatment; federal and state anti-discrimination statutes and entitlements; criminal prosecution, defenses and sentencing; and practicing therapeutic jurisprudence.
Mental Health Law, Advocacy & Policy (S. Ros*nbaum)
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Good god. Do not take this class. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL! The prof is really nice and tries (kinda), but he has no idea how to teach. The class is (ostensibly) a survey of a number of issues related to mental health law (ranging from civil to criminal, disability law, legislation, etc.), but it really teaches you nothing. The only plusses are that it's not a lot of work and there are some interesting guest speakers.
This professor is on another planet. He has no idea what he's doing and has no regard for students' schedules or time committments. He routinely holds us 10 minutes after the end of our scheduled class time, which is already 2 hours and 40 minutes. He has now decided to have us attend court in SF and hold one of our classes in SF. He doesn't seem to realize that it's asking a lot to have us to trek downtown with our 5" thick casebook and laptop from 2pm - 5:30pm on the Thursday before finals. He didn't ask the class whether we'd be okay with this or even acknowledge what a burden it will be, he just went ahead and scheduled it. I would feel better about it if I though I might get something out of the class session, but I know it will be more of his bizarre role-playing exercises and tangential discussions about topics that have little to do with mental health or law.
even besides the bad hours and odd trips, this is not good.
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