Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials
- ISBN-10
- 1594601607
- ISBN-13
- 9781594601606
- Series
- Mental Disability Law
- Category
- Law / Disability
- Pages
- 1107
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Carolina Academic Press
- Author
- Michael L. Perlin
Description
This casebook covers all of constitutional "civil" mental health law, including involuntary civil commitment, the right to refuse treatment, and the rights of persons with mental disabilities in community settings. Perlin also addresses federal statutory rights, including, but not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act; other civil mental health issues, including tort law; and the criminal trial process, including all aspects of competency, the insanity defense, self-incrimination, confessions, the death penalty, and sentencing and post-sentencing issues. Important Supreme Court decisions that have been handed down since the first edition (Olmstead v. L.C., Tennessee v. Lane, Kansas v. Crane, Sell v. United States, and Atkins v. Virginia) are all given extensive attention.
Mental Disability Law not only teaches students the relevant doctrine and theory, but also gives them an understanding of why the cases were decided as they were. Questions are provided after all major sections that encourage the teacher to direct students to think about the social, political, and behavioral forces that led to many of the decisions in question.
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Other editions
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- 1995
- 134 pages
- Paperback
- American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
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