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LAW 913

MENTAL HEALTH LAW

2-3 credits.

Introduction to cases, statutes, and legal doctrines related to rights, treatment, and hospitalization and incarceration of mentally ill persons. Includes topics such as involuntary civil commitment; the historical arc of psychiatric hospitals; competency to stand trial assessment and restoration; insanity defense evaluations; moral panics and socio-legal repercussions; right to refuse psychiatric treatment; effectiveness of psychotropic medicine; dangerousness and risk; social science research of eyewitness memory, interrogation and confessions, and jury decision-making; juveniles and treatment; regulation of the mental health system and mental health providers; confidentiality and duty to protect clients; policing functions; and personal mental health for lawyers.

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Requisites: Declared in Law JD Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain the complex intersection between the law and mental health issues Audience: Graduate 2. Develop an understanding of the role of lawyers when there are criminal/civil issues involving mental health problems Audience: Graduate 3. Explore several specific nettlesome psycho-legal topics and evaluate how the legal system reaches dispositions in these areas Audience: Graduate 4. Develop a deeper and more realistic understanding of mental health law issues, with regard to how lawyers work inside and around the clinical paradigm in their representation of clients - i.e., mental health evaluation and treatment Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain the complex intersection between the law and mental health issues Audience: Graduate 2. Develop an understanding of the role of lawyers when there are criminal/civil issues involving mental health problems Audience: Graduate 3. Explore several specific nettlesome psycho-legal topics and evaluate how the legal system reaches dispositions in these areas Audience: Graduate 4. Develop a deeper and more realistic understanding of mental health law issues, with regard to how lawyers work inside and around the clinical paradigm in their representation of clients - i.e., mental health evaluation and treatment Audience: Graduate

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