Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Using the Law To Improve the Public's Health

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Using the Law To Improve the Public's Health

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Panelists:

Diane Kjervik, JD, RN, FAAN, Chief Executive Officer, Carolina Women's
Center, and Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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The Honorable William G. Schma, JD, Kalamazoo Circuit Court Judge and Presiding Judge, Kalamazoo County Substance Abuse Diversion Program, Kalamazoo, MI; Trustee, International Centre for Healing and the Law, Kalamazoo, MI
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Carrie Petrucci, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach, CA
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Moderator: Charity Scott, JD, Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Law, Health and Society, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA
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Learning Objectives:

Understand what therapeutic jurisprudence is and what its relation is to public health;
Apply therapeutic jurisprudence principles to specific examples of public health challenges; and
Use therapeutic jurisprudence methods to analyze the impact of public health laws and of the legal system on the public's health.

Resource Material:

BOOKS
Winick, Bruce J. & Wexler, David B (eds). Judging In A Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts. Carolina Academic Press (2003).

Kapp, Marshall. "The Law and Older Persons: Is Geriatric Jurisprudence Therapeutic?" Carolina Academic Press (2003)

Dennis P. Stolle, David B. Wexler, & Bruce J. Winick (eds.), Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2000).
Wexler, David B., and Bruce J. Winick, editors. Law in a Therapeutic Key. Durham: Carolina Academic Press (1996).

SYMPOSIA AND ARTICLES
Fordham Urban Law Journal: "Problem-Solving Courts" Volume 29 (2002).

Journal of Law and Psychiatry: "Special Issue: Specialty Courts" Volume 26(1) (Jan/Feb 2003).

Journal of Nursing Law: "Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Nursing" Volume 8(4), (2002).

Carolyn Hartley & Carrie Petrucci. "Practicing Culturally Competent Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Collaboration Between Social Work and Law" 14 Washington Univ. Journal of Law and Policy 133 (2004).

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