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...
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A dedication ceremony for the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center will be held on Sept. 24,2009, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lowe Art Museum on campus. Justice Barbara Pariente of the Florida Supreme Court will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include University of Miami President Donna Shalala, Patricia White, the new Dean of the...
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On February 27th Prof. Winick will be an honored speaker, along with Prof. David B. Wexler as the founders of the school of social enquiry called therapeutic jurisprudence, at the Florida Coastal Law Review Therapeutic Jurisprudence Symposium. He will be speaking on the topic of public health law as it relates to the Elderly. ...
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At the annual meeting of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, from June 28-July 5, 2009 there will be five days of therapeutic jurisprudence sessions featuring almost 90 therapeutic jurisprudence speakers from a dozen countries. The program will be held in New York City at the NYU School of Law. At the...
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During the 162nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association being held in San Francisco May 16-21, 2009, Professor Winick will present his paper entitled Developing a Mental Health Court for Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A New Judicial Model on May 20th. This session will teach about such Courts by describing and evaluating a new...
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Professor Bruce Winick will be speaking at the upcoming John Jay College of Criminal Justice-sponsored “International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies” taking place June 9-12, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His panel is part of a conference taking place at the same location under the sponsorship of the International Network...
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On May 23, 2008, Professor Winick will give a lecture at the University of Zurich School of Law entitled “Therapeutic Jurisprudence: An Introduction.”
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In May, 2008, Professor Winick published an article titled “A Therapeutic Jruisprudence Approach to Dealing with Coercion in the Mental Health System” in 15 Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 25-39 (2008)
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Professor Winick will speak at a therapeutic jurisprudence conference at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in San Juan, Puerto Rico that is part of a much larger international meeting of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His topic is titled “The Miami-Dade County Domestic Violence Mental Health Court: A Pioneering...
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