S. Ros*nbaum

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Mental Health Law, Advocacy & Policy (S. Ros*nbaum)

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.