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Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal, Second Edition

Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal is a logically organized and readable ...


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Format: 5 volumes hardbound with current supplements , BOOK
ISBN: 9780327005247
2003
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    Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal is a logically organized and readable discussion of the entire body of law affecting the mentally disabled. It provides thoughtful answers to practically every research, counseling or litigation problem that could conceivably arise in this area. Each chapter of this treatise contains practical checklists and commentary to highlight and clarify case authority. Extensively annotated, it contains a table of cases and cites hundreds of authoritative secondary sources.

    Chapter 1 The Origins and Development of Mental Disability Law
    Chapter 2 Involuntary Civil Commitment: Substantive Rights Constitutional Developments
    Chapter 3 Constitutional Aspects of Involuntary Civil Commitment
    Chapter 4 Right to Treatment
    Chapter 5 The Right to Refuse Treatment
    Chapter 6 Other Rights of the Mentally Disabled
    Chapter 7 The Right to Aftercare and Deinstitutionalization
    Chapter 8 Right to Advocacy Services and Effective Counsel
    Chapter 9 Economic Rights of the Mentally Disabled
    Chapter 10 Rights of the Mentally Disabled Under State Constitutional Law
    Chapter 11 Patients' Bill of Rights
    Chapter 12 Psychiatric Tort Actions
    Chapter 13 The Mentally Disabled as Defendants and Third Parties
    Chapter 14 Incompetency Issues
    Chapter 15 Insanity Defense
    Chapter 16 Mental Disability and the Criminal Trial Process
    Chapter 17 Special Problems with Death Penalty Issues
    Chapter 18 The "Right to Die"

     

    Perlin, Michael L.


    Michael L. Perlin is Professor of Law at New York Law School. He has served as Deputy Public Defender and Director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the Department of the Public Advocate of New Jersey and was a member of the Task Force on Legal and Ethical Issues on President Carter's Commission on Mental Health. He is a member of the National Advocacy Board at the Institute on Mental Disability and Law of the National Center for State Courts. He is the 1988 recipient of the Amicus Award of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of mental disability law. Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal was awarded The Walter Jeffors writing prize in 1990.

     

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