Not Such a Party Pooper: An Attempt to Accommodate (Many of) Professor Quinn\u27s Concerns About Therapeutic Jurisprudence Criminal Defense Lawyering

This Article responds to Professor Mae C. Quinn\u27s critique of the author\u27s piece, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Rehabilitative Role of the Criminal Defense Lawyer, published in a 2005 symposium issue of the St. Thomas Law Review. This Reply Article suggests that Professor Quinn has badly misread or distorted the author\u27s St. Thomas article. This Article takes serious issue with her characterization of the author\u27s work, contends that the author and Professor Quinn are closer on many issues than her critique suggests, and points out areas of agreement and disagreement. Therapeutic Jurisprudence can be incorporated into the role of the criminal defense lawyer and, as a simple add-on, it can be transformative of criminal law practice

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 1 - Robes and Rehabilitation: How Judges Can Help Offenders “Make Good”

Problem-solving courts—such as drug treatment courts, mental health courts, and domestic violence courts—may be the most obvious examples of “therapeutic jurisprudence in action,” but it is crucial to recognize the potential application of therapeutic jurisprudence generally—in civil cases, appellate cases, family law cases, and, of course, in criminal and juvenile cases. The importance of the therapeutic jurisprudence perspective beyond the specialized problem-solving court context was underscored by a “vision statement” recently agreed to by the District Court for Clark County, Washington

Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Appellate Arena

In this Introduction, I will briefly summarize Des Rosiers\u27 Court Review article, entitled From Telling to Listening: A Therapeutic Analysis of the Role of Courts in Minority-Majority Conflicts, placing it in a framework that transcends minority-majority conflicts and encourages discussion regarding the use of therapeutic jurisprudence by appellate tribunals. My brief summary is followed by a series of comments that have the potential of launching a refreshing line of inquiry into the appellate process, opinion writing, and the formulation of legal doctrine

Of Rights and Reinforcers

This Article is directed at the intersection between the law and those behavior modification techniques which are clinical applications of Skinnerian principles of learning theory or reinforcement theory. The author has written previously on this subject and it is his hope in the present Article to capsulize and update the previous work, to highlight certain new themes and developments, and to furnish some recent references