Announcements

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• 3 November 2009
  We now have a forum set up for the attorneys and practitioners to discuss how they are using TJ in their practices. Please see our page on the TJ Practices Project.
• 1 April 2009
• There is now a blog on therapeutic jurisprudence on the Cutting Edge Law website. It is at: http://cuttingedgelaw.com/users/michael-king The blog aims to share news about TJ---conferences, publications, events---and the latest developments in the field. Bruce Winick and David Wexler have generously agreed to inform your blogger about such matters to provide content for the blog! Other contributions about any TJ news or thoughts about TJ will also be most gratefully received. The site is meant to supplement existing resources on therapeutic jurisprudence. It also aims to share thoughts, observations (and, where appropriate, feelings!) about TJ---this being a blog rather than a scholarly journal. It aims to inform and stimulate further thought and exchange of views about TJ and its application. The entries are intended to be wide-reaching in their subject matter and will include observations on the application of TJ to broad areas of the law, including problem solving courts (eg, drug courts), commercial law, victims of crime, Indigenous issues, judging, legal practice, legal education etc. Entries will be on a regular basis but not according to a fixed schedule. The first blog entry provides a short overview of TJ.
• Studying Therapeutic Jurisprudence in London
  In July, 2009, the University of Miami School of Law will present a 3 credit course in therapeutic jurisprudence that will be taught by Profs. Bruce J. Winick and David B. Wexler, the co-founders of the field. The course is open to law students in the U.S. and elsewhere, to graduate students and professors in law, psychology, criminology, sociology, psychiatry, philosophy, and other disciplines, and to lawyers, judges, psychologists, psychiatrists, and those working in law enforcement and the courts. The course may be taken for credit or non-credit. For more information on the course, or to sign up please see the website at http://www.law.miami.edu/summer-abroad/
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• 26 August 2008
• We have a new guest column written by George Pulikuthiyil of the Jananeethi Institute available. It is a wonderful description of how their program uses Therapeutic Jurisprudence to further their goals of healing their clients while enforcing their legal rights.
• The Thomas Jefferson Law Review's Special Issue on Therapeutic Jurisprudence, 30 Thomas Jefferson Law Review #2 (Spring 2008), has been published and is available online at the review's website, http://www.tjeffersonlrev.org. The issue contains 13 articles presented in the TJ miniconference in Padua,Italy during the summer of 2007. The authors are a very international and interdisciplinary group, with backgrounds in law, psychology, social work, medicine/public health, and coming from the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Israel, and Sweden.
• 15 May 2008
  We have a new guest column available. Written by Judge Lerner-Wren it explores the use of TJ in a general jurisdiction court. It's wonderful to see the use of TJ spreading from the specialized courts into the general jurisdiction ones. There is also a new course listed in our Courses and Law School Groups section from Hamline University.
• 30 April 2008
  We have added a wonderful new course being taught online in the fall of 2008. Prof. Deborah Dorfman will be teaching the course entitled Therapeutic Jurisprudence. For more information please see the Upcoming Events page or the NYLS website at www.nyls.edu/mdl.
• 13 February 2008
• We have added a new guest column this month, written by Dejo Olowu about the application of TJ to law in Africa. We have also updated the TJ Overview written by David Wexler.
• If you haven't already looked at the Australasian Therapeutic Jurisprudence Clearinghouse or the William & Mary Law School's Student Scholarship on Therapeutic Jurisprudence please take a moment to do so now. There are some wonderful articles there that we have not been able to index ourselves.
• Don't forget to mark your calenders for the John Jay College International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies, June 9-12, 2008 in San Juan, Pueto Rico. For more information see the Upcoming Events page on our website.
• 10 January 2008
  The Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary Therapeutic Jurisprudence Program is pleased to announce the creation of William & Mary Law School's Student Scholarship on Therapeutic Jurisprudence. For more information please see our linking page.
• 11 October 2007
  The 2008 TJ Conference in conjunction with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice call for abstracts has been posted on the Upcoming Events page. We are very excited to host this confrence in a bilingual setting and hope that you will be able to join us in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 9-11, 2008.
• 18 August 2007
  The Australasian Therapeutic Jurisprudence Clearinghouse is now up and running! Co-sponsored by the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration it is a great resource for information on TJ in Australasia. Many thanks to Michael King and everyone he has been working with for getting this site up. If you are doing any TJ work in Australasia make sure to check out the site and the wealth of information it hosts.
• 21 June 2007
  It is now possible to order the monograph of papers from the Third International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence held in Perth in June 2006. It contains a selection of papers from the conference, on key areas of the law, presented by presenters from Australia and the Pacific, North America, Asia and Africa. The publication details are: Reinhardt G and Cannon A (eds) Transforming Legal Processes in Court and Beyond (AIJA, 2007). The cost of the monograph is $AUD 45---which includes postage only for orders from within Australia. The monograph has just been included in the list of publications on the AIAJ website: http://www.aija.org.au/list.htm.
  To order the monograph from outside Australia, please email: Kathy.Jarrett@law.monash.edu.au. To order from within Australia follow the instructions on the website.
• List of Papers in the Monograph
1. Country and Healing: An Indigenous Perspective--Ambelin Kwaymullina
2. Domestic Violence in South Africa: A View on Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Human Rights Protection of the Female Victim--Ingrid Sinclair and Anel Du Plessis
3. Reconnection to Community as a Sentencing Tool--Annette Hennessy
4. International Criminal Justice and the Promise of Therapeutic Jurisprudence--Dejo Olowu
5. Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Providing Some Answers to the Neutrality Dilemma in Court-Connected Mediation--Kathy Douglas and Rachael Field
6. Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Pakistan: Juvenile Delinquency and the Role of the Defense Lawyer--Muhammad Ahmad Munir
7. A Drug Court A Police Perspective-- Julia Foster
8. The Peacemaking Virtues of Good Lawyers in the Adversarial Process--Robyn Tapper
9. Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Magistrates Court: Some Issues of Practice and Principle--Andrew Cannon
10. Disciplinary Investigations and Hearings: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective--Ian Freckelton
11. The Synergy Between Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Drug Treatment Courts--Peggy Fulton Hora
12. Mirroring the Stages of Change in the Establishment of Problem Solving Courts--Michael S King and Lynton Piggott
13. Magistrates, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Social Change--Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack
14. Therapeutic Jurisprudence Victoria: Feelin' Groovy?--Jelena Popovic

25 January 2007
We have updated many areas of the website extensively. These include new courses and a new TJ student group on our Courses page, more events on our upcoming events page, programs from the 1998, 2001, and 2006 TJ Conferences, and more. As always, if you see any errors or omissions please contact jessica@scrye.com.

21 April 2006

We have several exciting updates on the website now.

·         The Florida Coastal Law Review inaugurated its "Therapeutic Jurisprudence Review" in its last issue, Volume 7(1), Summer 2005. The inaugural issue contains an introduction by Professors Stephen Durden and Susan Daicoff, and two essays, one by Jennifer Marie Sanchez on TJ and Due Process in the Juvenile Parole Revocation Process, and One by David Wexler, 'A Tripartite Framework for Incorporating Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Criminal Law Education, Research, and Practice.

·         The Georgia State University Law Review: "Symposium: Therapeutic Approaches to Conflict Resolution in Health Care Settings" Volume 21(4), (Summer, 2005) is also out and cited in the cumulative bibliography.

·         There are several new articles in Urdu listed in the bibliographies.

·         We have also added law school courses on TJ at Fordham University and Touro Law Center in our Courses and Law School Groups on Therapeutic Jurisprudence

·         We are a little over 6 weeks away from the start of the 3rd International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence and things are looking great. We have over 160 registrations and over 40 presentations for them to choose from! The conference brochure and program are being regularly updated and can be downloaded from www.aija.org.au/TJ.

15 August 2005

·         The 3rd International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence is in a little less than a year and the call for papers is up! For more information please see the conference website.

·         The Hon. Muhammad Amir Munir of Pakistan has written the second in our series of guest columns. This one entitled "The TJ Elements in Juvenile Justice System of Pakistan Problems for a Juvenile Court to Act Therapeutically," is an interesting description about trying to apply TJ to the legal system in Pakistan.

·         The St Thomas Law Review (Miami,Florida) is about to release an exciting special issue on Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Clinical Legal Education and Legal Skills Training. Subscribers to Lexis or Westlaw are now able to access it from those services. Hard copies may be ordered by emailing lawrev@stu.edu For within the US, the issue can be acquired for US $15, which includes the cost of postage and handling. Please email the law review to ascertain the additional postage cost for orders outside the US. Also, the review may, on request, be able to email electronic versions of select articles to interested readers.

·         Natasha Bahkt has recently published with the Hon. Paul Bently a paper in the Commonwealth Judicial Journal entitled "Problem Solving Courts as Agents of Change." It has also been published in the Criminal Law Quarterly and may be found online at http://www.iadtnal%20ppr.pdf/

2 August 2005
We are excited to announce that the call for papers has been posted for the Third International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence taking place in Perth, Western Australia in June of 2006. For more information about the conference or to view the call for papers please see the conference website.

7 July 2005

·         Last spring, Justice Paul Bentley delivered a lecture at the California Western University Law School conference on problem solving. That lecture, prepared for Justice Bentley in collaboration with Natasha Bakht has now been published in the Criminal Law Quarterly, a Canadian journal. The full reference is: Bakht, Natasha with Bently, Paul Hon. "Problem Solving Courts as Agents of Change." 50(3) Criminal Law Quarterly (June 2005).

·         We now have a starting brochure about the 3rd International Conference on TJ! See the starting sponsors and conference dates at intj-tjc2006.html!

3 June 2005

·         Michael King, one of the organizers of the Australian conference "At the Cutting Edge: Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Magistrates Courts" recently posted an exciting comment on the TJ Listserv.

·         On 6 May 2005 in Perth, Western Australia, the conference "At the 

·         Cutting Edge: Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Magistrates Courts" was held.  

·         Judges, magistrates, lawyers, justice system administrators, treatment 

·         agency professionals, academics and representatives from other areas of 

·         government such as health attended the conference.  The Chief Justice of 

·         Western Australia delivered an erudite and inspiring opening speech on the 

·         role of therapeutic jurisprudence particularly in the context of the role 

·         of the courts and society in promoting offender rehabilitation. His speech 

·         is available to download as a pdf file from the speech section of the 

·         Supreme Court's website. I refer you to: 

http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/speeches/content.htm

·         We are pleased to announce that the 3rd International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence is being planned. For more information please see the TJ 2006 Conference Website.

3 May 2005

·         There is now an email list which people interested in important announcements about Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the INTJ Website can subscribe to. This is separate from the INTJ Listserve and will only send announcements related to imortant INTJ issues. Members will not be able to post or respond to the email list. Those functions will still be available on the INTJ Listserve. To subscribe to the email list please fill out the form on our website.

·         The INTJ and Florida Coastal have started a new section of the Law Review dedicated to TJ articles. For more information please see our section on TJ Law Reviews.

·         A documentary on the Red Hook Community Justice Center in New York entitled "Red Hook Justice: A Legal Revolution Grows in Brooklyn" will air May 24 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). The independently produced film offers vivid testimony to the dedication of the judges, attorneys, court officers, social workers and others at the Justice Center who go above and beyond the call of duty each day to make a difference in Red Hook. For more information about the documentary, visit www.frif.com/new2004/hook.html and www.pbs.org/independentlens/redhookjustice.

·         18 March 2005

o    We have started a new feature of our website. We will now be hosting periodic guest columns. The first one is a wonderful piece by Magistrate King who has done much to integrate TJ with judging in Western Australia. We are very excited to have him write this wonderful article and would love your feedback on the usefulness of these articles to you.

o    There are lots of new items up now, most especially some new listings under the Courses in Therapeutic Jurisprudence.

·         15 February 2004

o    Canada's National Judicial Institute(NJI) has just published an important judicial problem solving/therapeutic jurisprudence manual. The manual entitled Judging in the 21st Century: A Problem-solving Approach is available online at http://www.nji.ca/Public/publication.htm and, according to the publisher, non-commercial reproduction is encouraged.

o    John Q. La Fond has just published a new book, Preventing Sexual Violence; How Society Should Cope with Sex Offenders, published by The American Psychological Association. For more information and a detailed description of the book see the book's website at http://www.apa.org/books/4316045.html

o    Amy D. Ronner has written a new book entitled Homophopia and the Law, Due out in March of 2005 and published by The American Psychological Association. In it Ronner critiques existing law, arguing forcibly for reform, but, drawing on and contributing to the therapeutic jurisprudence perspective, she also points ways for creative and caring lawyers to counsel clients in ways that may sometimes avoid and at other times at least minimize some of the devastating stresses, anxieties, and tensions ordinarily fueled by the legal process--and fueled with premium grade when applied to homosexual men and women.

o    Bruce Winick has just published a new book, Civil Commitment: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model, published by Carolina Academic Press (2005). For more information on the book, see www.brucewinick.com.

·         29 November 2004

o    The On 9 November 2004 at their annual conference in Perth the Western Australian Country Magistrates unanimously passed a resolution supporting the use of TJ in their courts and programs. Much thanks for this goes to Magistrates Julie Wager and Michael King. For more information and to see the first 8 paragraphs of the resolution under the Cases, Briefs, Statutes, and Other Documents of Interest section of our website.

o    The Indiana University-Indianapolis School of Law has just launched a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Society. According to the Society's constitution, the purposes are to expose interested students and members of the legal profession to TJ, to keep abreast of upcoming activities, and to encourage members of the legal community to incorporate therapeutic jurisprudence into their practice by bringing insights from the behavioral sciences--psychology, social work, criminology and others--into the law and to be aware of the law's impact on emotional life.

o    David Wexler has published a short essay on international developments in the use of therapeutic jurisprudence in general judicial contexts, focusing on the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. His article, "Therapeutic Jurisprudence: It's Not Just for Problem-Solving Courts and Calendars Anymore" can be viewed online at http://www.ncsconline.org/WC/Publications/KIS_SpePro_Trends04.pdf.

·         26 April 2004
We have had a great new book published by Susan Daicoff entitled Lawyer, Know Thyself: A Psychological Analysis of Personality Strengths and Weaknesses. This book looks at lawyer stress and satisfaction/dissatisfaction and speaks of how the practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and other related vectors of the 'comprehensive law movement' may pave the way for a more satisfying legal career. For more information on the book please see its entry in the Cumulative Bibliography or the publisher's website.

·         23 February 2004
There are some great additions that have been made to the website in the last few months, including new links to The Burns Institute and The Center for Families, Children and the Courts as well as many new articles. Have a great time looking around and as usual please keep us updated on what you are doing with TJ.

o    In a recent book, Prof. Marshall Kapp has explored the relationship between gerontology and therapeutic jurisprudence. His book is entitled The Law and Older Persons: Is Geriatric Jurisprudence Therapeutic? and was published by Carolina Academic Press in 2003. For more information please see the publisher's website at http://www.cap-press.com.

o    A new TJ symposia has just recently been released in the Australian Journal Law in Context. Entitled Therapeutic Jurisprudence and edited by Marilyn McMahon and David Wexler it has many great articles by authors Alfred Allan, Warren Brookbanks, Terry Carney, Arie Freiberg, Marilyn McMahon, Dominique Saunders, David Wexler, and John Willis. The full citiation for the symposia and articles are available in the Cumulative and Selected Recent Publications.

·         14 November 2003

o    A new Drug Treatment Court Listserv has been started by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. You can find out more about it on our links and listserv page or by going to their site directly at http://www.nadcp.org/iadtc/.

o    The Western Criminology Review is a new online journal that has been started by the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino. The main site for this journal is at http://wcr.sonoma.edu/default.html and the site for the special TJ issue is http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v4n2/v4n2.html.

·         14 October 2003
A new TJ research website has been started by Carrie Petrucci. This website will list different ongoing and completed research, as well as instruments used in TJ studies and contact information on how to access the instrument, and presentation and conferences being given. The site is located at http://www.tjcollaborative.org.

·         2 August 2003
Bruce Winick and David Wexler have just published a new book entitled Judging In A Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts through Caroline Academic Press. For more information on the book or information on how to order it please see the flyer.

·         23 May 2003
The May 2003 issue of the American Bar Association Journal devotes its 'ABA Connection' section to a packet of articles on Therapeutic Jurisprudence. The publication will now be followed by a CLE teleconference on the subject. The articles in the section are:

1.      Wexler, David B. & Winick Bruce J. "Putting Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Work."

2.      Halpert, Richard L. "More Than One Kind of Recovery."

3.      McShane, John V. "The Need for Healing."

4.      Hon. Schma, William G., "A New Kind of Power."

·         5 March 2003
There are two new symposiums out featuring articles based on the speakers from the 2nd International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence. These are the Journal of Nursing Law's Volume 8, Number 4 (December 2002) issue entitled Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Nursing and the Touro Law Review's Volume , Number (2002) entitled The Varieties of Therapeutic Experience: Excerpts from the Second International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence.

·         8 November 2002
There is a new symposium featuring TJ out in the Florida Coastal Law Journal. It is Volume 3, Number 2 and a complete listing of the articles can be found within the cumulative bibliography and select recent publications.

·         30 July 2002
Coordination of Therapeutic Jurisprudence papers and symposia for the International Law-Psychology Conference being held in Edinburgh July 7-12, 2003. Dr. Barbara Sturgis (email: bsturgis1@unl.edu of the University of Nebraska has agreed to coordinate the submission of abstracts for proposed papers and symposia relating to TJ. For more information on the conference itself see the link on the Upcoming Events Page.

·         1 May 2002
A new symposium issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin has been published. It is Volume 38, Number 2. The articles published in this symposium issue are all listed within both the Select Recent Publications and the Cumulative Bibliography. Additionally, please note that Professor David Wexler's email address has changed to davidbwexler@yahoo.com. If you need to email him this will now be the most reliable address.

·         9 March 2002
We have added the Therapeutic Jurisprudence listserv as a new link on this site. We would encourage everyone to join the listserv and enrich the discussions taking place.

·         4 February 2002
There have been some additions to the website. The first is that we have acquired the domain name www.therapeuticjurisprudence.com, which will soon be up and running. This is in addition to the current sites located at www.therapeuticjurisprudence.org and http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/upr-intj/. We have also added some new sections to the website. These include the addition of video listings within the cumulative bibliography and a page listing TJ courses being taught around the country. If you have anything that can be included in either of these areas or any other please let us know by emailing us at davidbwexler@yahoo.com or jessica@scrye.com.

·         11 October 2001
The XXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health will be held in Amsterdam, from July 8-12, 2002. The major themes of this conference will be "The Mentally Disordered Offender Throughout the Life Cycle", "Conflict Resolution," "Youth Crime, Criminal Law, and Forensic Involvement," as well as other parallel sessions in topics such as Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence. More information on the conference can be obtained from the International Academy of Law and Mental Health Website. The TJ stream will be coordinated by Prof. John LaFond from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. For more information on the TJ stream or to submit a proposal contact Prof. LaFond at LafondJ@umkc.edu.

·         7 September 2001
The Seattle University Law Review has a special issue that was devoted to Therapeutic Jurisprudence. It is entitled Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Issues, Analysis, and Applications, Volume 24, Number 2, p. 217-569 (2000). The articles in this issue are listed in the Selected Recent Publications and Cumulative Bibliography on this site, as well as, here.

·         12 February 2001
The University of Missourri at Kansas City Law Review has a special issue dedicated to domestic Violence entitled "Preventing Intimate Violence: Have Law and Public Policy Failed?" It is Vol. 69, Number 1, the Fall 2000 issue. This symposium has some very good TJ related articles within it and is worth a look at. A complete listing of the articles is available on the UMKC Law Review website.

·         18 December 2000
The new symposium issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law (Volume 18, Number 4) has been published and is entitled "International Perspectives on Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Part Two." Here is a complete list of the articles in the special issue. Note that this is a continuation from Volume 17, Number 5.

·         03 October 2000
A special issue of Psychology, Public Policy, & Law has been published. It is entitled "Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Preventive Law: Transforming Legal Practice and Education." The full citation is 5 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 793-1210 (1999). A complete list of the articles may be found at the journal website. The articles are also included in our selected recent publications and cumulative bibliography listings.

·         20 September 2000
The book Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Law as a Helping Profession edited by Dennis P. Stolle, David B. Wexler and Bruce J. Winick is now out and available for purchase from Carolina Academic Press Publishing. Their website has a short description of the book and the table of contents as well as ordering information.

·         05 July 2000
One of the founders of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Bruce Winick, was recently interviewed by Journalist Steve Keeva. To see the interview go to the Transforming Practices website.

·         03 June 2000
The Journal of Health Care Law and Policy, published by the University of Maryland School of Law, has published a symposium issue on "Substance Abuse, Families and the Courts: Legal and Public Health Challenges." The issue covers such matters as unified family court, drug court, and domestic violence. For the complete contents, click here.

·         19 May 2000
A new issue of Court Review (Volume 37, Issue 1), the official journal of the American Judges Association has been published. This issue is entitled "Special Issue on Therapeutic Jurisprudence" and the table of contents and articles can be accessed at the American Judges Association website.

·         12 May 2000
The Second International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence will be held on May 3-5, 2001, at the Kingsgate Conference Center at the University of Cincinnati. A call for papers, travel and accommodation details, and other conference information is available at the Conference website