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Therapeutic Jurisprudence makes Black’s Law Dictionary
The new edition of Black’s Law Dictionary contains an entry for therapeutic jurisprudence: therapeutic jurisprudence. The study of the effects of law and the legal system on the behavior, emotions, and mental health of people: esp., a multidisciplinary examination of how law and mental health interact. • ‘This discipline originated in the late 1980s as an... »
Professor Winick talks about Overcoming Barriers
- e-Veritas – http://everitas.univmiami.net - Overcoming barriers Posted By rcjones On June 5, 2009 @ 5:43 pm In Features, Priority: Slider Feature Item | Comments Disabled During the No Barriers’ Science and Technology Symposium, Ninel Gregori (second from right), an assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, talks about a device called BrainPort that... »
The Supreme Court’s Evolving Death Penalty Jurisprudence: Severe Mental Illness As The Next Frontier
Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent death penalty jurisprudence displays the Court’s willingness to invalidate the death penalty for certain offenses or classes of offenders, including those with mental retardation and those who were under eighteen at the time of the offense. The Court has noted that the death penalty in these cases constitutes... »
Prof. Bruce Winick’s Testimony on Problem Solving Courts at a hearing held by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Task Force on Problem Solving Courts
Page 3 MR. JONES: Good morning, Professor Winick. My name is Rick Jones from New York and I’m one of the members of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Problem-Solving Court Task Force. We are delighted to have you here this morning. We are happy to be here in Miami and we are very pleased... »
Autism Defenses, Rare But Gaining Notoriety
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 18, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH – Milagro Cunningham’s lawyer described him as autistic and argued before a jury last week that he was insane at the time he beat and raped an 8-year-old girl, then left her to die buried under concrete blocks in a Lake Worth... »
