Mental Health Law

Mental Health Law LAW 675 – Fall 2016 Profs. Preis and Saks Room 12 – 2:00 – 3:50 pm

(All page citations refer to Law and the Mental Health System – Slobogin, Hafemeister, Mossman, Reisner ( 6th Edition) 8/25/16: Mental Disorders – pp. 4 - 30 I. Introduction II. Perspectives on Mental Disorder A. The Interface of Law and Mental Disorder B. What is Mental Disorder? C. Diagnosing Mental Disorder III. Treatment of Mental Disorder A. Introduction 9/1/16: Expertise – pp. 493 - 557 I. Introduction II. Admissibility of Clinical Opinion Testimony A. Normality B. Responsibility C. Propensity 9/8/16: Civil Commitment – Police Power – pp. 804 - 849 I. Introduction II. The Basis for State Intervention A. Introduction B. Police Power Commitment - Handout – Lewis Carrol excerpt - Video – Hurry Tomorrow (documentary on Metropolitan State Hospital, 1975) 9/15/16: Civil Commitment – Parens Patriae and Least Restrictive Alternative doctrine - pp. 854 – 858; 872 - 903 C. Parens Patriae Commitments III. Least Restrictive Alternative Doctrine - Handout – New Yorker Article, Aviv, God Knows Where I Am 9/22/16: Civil Commitment – Procedures 904 - 927 IV. Procedures A. General Considerations B. Emergency Detention C. Adjudicatory Hearing Procedures - Handouts - Conservatorship of Roulet - L-P-S excerpts 9/29/16: Children V. Commitment of Other Populations E. Children – pp. 1018 - 1035 I. Special Educational Benefits A. Scope of Guaranteed Benefits – pp. 1335 - 1365

10/6/16: Right to Treatment O’Connor v. Donaldson – pp. 858 - 866 II. Theoretical Underpinnings of the Right to Treatment – pp. 1246 - 1268 IV. The Right to Community Services – pp. 1312 - 1331

10/13/16: Discrimination Anti-discrimination Law – pp. 1401 – 1447 I. Constitutional Protections II. Employment Opportunities B. Qualification and Reasonable Accommodation - Handouts - Unzicker Poem (To Be a Mental Patient)

10/20/16: Insanity Defense – pp. 625 - 673 I. Introduction II. Criminal Responsibility A. The Insanity Defense B. The Automatism Defense 10/27/16: Other Criminal Law Doctrines – pp. 673 - 725 II. Criminal Responsibility (cont’d) C. Expert Testimony on Mens Rea D. Other Defenses E. Abolition of the Insanity Defense 11/3/16: Sentencing – pp. 735 - 801 III. Sentencing A. Capital Sentencing B. Non-Capital Sentencing 11/10/16: Competency and Right to Refuse Treatment I. Introduction – pp. 1037 - 1039 II. General Considerations – pp. 1039 - 1053 IV. The Right to Refuse Consent and Consent to Psychiatric Treatment – pp. 1081 - 1112 A. Psychotropic Medication 11/17/16: Competency to Proceed – pp. 1126 - 1179 V. Competency in the Criminal Process A. Competency to Proceed 12/1/16: Decisional and Dignitary Competency – pp. 1180 - 1231 V. Competency in the Criminal Process (cont’d) B. Decisional Competency C. Dignitarian Competency