In a new article Mark Glover observes how estate planning is so much more than visiting a lawyer and executing a will... Contemporary estate planning employs various will substitutes, such as life insurance, revocable trusts, and payable-on-death contracts, to transfer the client’s property upon death. Because estate planning, including the use of will substitutes, requires the … Continue reading Therapeutic jurisprudence and dying
How to do therapeutic jurisprudence research
Guest blogger Nigel Stobbs teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on therapeutic courts .... I often meet academics, lawyers, graduate research students and criminologists who are inspired by the idea of using TJ as a structure or method for a particular project, but who struggle to pin down what the TJ method 'is', or how to … Continue reading How to do therapeutic jurisprudence research
New Wine in New Bottles: The Rebirth of Rehabilitation in American Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice
Professor Mark Fondacaro writes.... I was recently invited by the Ohio Northern University College of Law to be a featured speaker at their Annual Law Review Symposium and asked to give a talk that would later be published as part of a special issue on “New Solutions to Old Problems: A Practical Look at the Rebirth … Continue reading New Wine in New Bottles: The Rebirth of Rehabilitation in American Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice
Therapeutic jurisprudence articles – Domestic violence torts & more
From time to time we will post links to articles that examine a range of legal areas through the therapeutic jurisprudence lens... Click on the title to access the full paper Domestic Violence Torts: Righting a Civil Wrong, Camille Carey, University of New Mexico - School of Law (May 15, 2014) Kansas Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 695, … Continue reading Therapeutic jurisprudence articles – Domestic violence torts & more
Mandatory sentencing – a TJ unfriendly bottle?
A Sentencing Advisory Council (Victoria, Australia) report on mandatory sentencing is a few years old now but still important given ongoing reliance on such laws in many jurisdictions. The paper examines the aims of mandatory sentencing and assesses whether the various schemes achieve those aims. It also looks at the economic and social costs of mandatory … Continue reading Mandatory sentencing – a TJ unfriendly bottle?
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