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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.
Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal was released in a new Third Edition in 2016, and for the first time in a 3-binder loose-leaf format. Beginning with this edition, separate cumulative supplements will no longer be published. To improve ease of use, annual revisions and updates can now be integrated immediately into the main text. Of particular note in the new Third Edition, there are greatly expanded chapters on sex offender laws and on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Featured Authors
Michael L. Perlin
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.
Heather Ellis Cucolo
Heather Ellis Cucolo is an adjunct professor and the current director of New York Law School's Online Mental Disability Law Program. She has contributed to the development of courses for the program as well as assisted in collaboration with Asia-Pacific partners to foster international distance learning. She has represented individuals facing civil commitment under both The New Jersey Mental Hygiene Law and the New Jersey's Sexually Violent Predators Act. Prof. Cucolo has published and lectured, both domestically and internationally, in the areas of mental disability law, criminal law and sex offender law. She has been recognized as one of the premiere experts in sexual violent predator law and has counseled attorneys, judges and clinicians on law and procedure in civil commitment proceedings and issues involving persons suffering from a mental disability or illness within the criminal justice system. Professor Cucolo teaches the Americans with Disabilities Act to both law students and other professionals and has advised international attorneys on the benefits and implications of the ADA.
Table of contents
Volume 1
Chapter 1 The Origins and Development of Mental Disability Law
Chapter 2 The Basic Principles Underlying the Development of Mental Disability Law
Chapter 3 Civil Commitment: Substantive Aspects
Chapter 4 Civil Commitment: Procedural Issues
Chapter 5 Sex Offender Law
Chapter 6 The Role of Counsel
Volume 2
Chapter 7 The Right to Treatment
Chapter 8 The Right to Refuse Treatment
Chapter 9 Other Institutional Rights
Chapter 10 Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Community Settings
Chapter 11 Federal Statutory Rights
Chapter 12 Tort Law
Volume 3
Chapter 13 Criminal Incompetencies
Chapter 14 The Insanity Defense
Chapter 15 Mental Disability and the Criminal Trial Process
Chapter 16 Mental Disability At and After Sentencing
Chapter 17 Mental Disability and the Death Penalty
Chapter 18 Historical Textual Sections from Chapters 2-14, First Edition, and from Chapters 3a, 3b, 5a, 8a, 10 & 16, Second Edition
Chapter 19 Historical Court Orders
Chapter 20 Historical Pleadings, Documents, and Court Forms
Chapter 21 Historical Textual Sections from Chapter 6, Second Edition
Chapter 22 Historical Textual Sections from Chapter 18, First Edition
Table of Cases
Index
