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Dr Debarti Halder at the "Social Media for Good " Conference Guest blogger Dr. Debarati Halder, Advocate and Managing Director, Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC) writes... Social media is the present day platform for sharing information and getting connected and reconnected with friends and acquaintances. We look to Twitter to know the daily ‘trends’ to … Continue reading Creating awareness of Online Victimization using Social Media: A Therapeutic Jurisprudential approach
The use of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) approaches in mainstream court and legal settings often involves the development of new systems and programs Often TJ initiatives draw on social science research and practices to make our legal systems more effective. Evaluating the effectiveness of TJ reforms is key - are the reforms enhancing therapeutic outcomes or … Continue reading Planning for evaluation of therapeutic jurisprudence initiatives
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
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
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
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