Guest blogger Jennifer A. Brobst, Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law and 2017 Chair of the American Association of Law Schools, Balance in Legal Education Section writes… While successfully achieving many important gains, advocates of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) have long warned of certain risks of infusing psychology into legal processes. TJ’s greatest … Continue reading Steering clear of therapeutic injustice for juvenile defendants
Moving Forward on Mainstreaming Therapeutic Jurisprudence
David Wexler shares his ideas for furthering both the therapeutic design of the law and the therapeutic application of the law. Download David Wexler's article here. Interested in TJ? This article is a chapter in a soon to be released book entitled Essays on Therapeutic Jurisprudence in New Zealand (Warren Brookbanks ed., 2015 Forthcoming). Register … Continue reading Moving Forward on Mainstreaming Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Conference! Weaving strands in Aotearoa New Zealand
On the 3rd-4th of September 2015, The University of Auckland will host the Fourth International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence Building on the success of three previous forums of this kind held in England (1998), America (2001), and Australia (2006), the 2015 conference will foster an inter-disciplinary and collegial environment to discuss and constructively debate the place of … Continue reading Conference! Weaving strands in Aotearoa New Zealand
Transforming Criminal Justice? Mainstreaming problem-solving approaches
Guest blogger Dr Jane Donoghue, Director of the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, discusses her new book Transforming Criminal Justice? Problem-Solving and Court Specialization In my new book Transforming Criminal Justice? Problem-Solving and Court Specialization, I provide a comparative analysis of developments in problem-solving justice in the UK and US and I examine the prospects for ‘mainstreaming’ … Continue reading Transforming Criminal Justice? Mainstreaming problem-solving approaches
The Hidden Power of Courts That Heal
Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren blogs about the history and future of therapeutic jurisprudence in the law in the Huffington Post (link here). Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren is a member of the Advisory Group of the International Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Mainstream Project. Judge Lerner-Wren has been a long time advocate of the rights of people living with mental ill … Continue reading The Hidden Power of Courts That Heal
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