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Mental Disability Law: Cases And Materials, 3rd Ed (2017), Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Alison Lynch
Mental Disability Law: Cases And Materials, 3rd Ed (2017), Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Alison Lynch
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This comprehensive casebook covers all areas of civil commitment law, institutional rights law, community rights law, sex offenders law, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mental Disability Law also explores all aspects of the criminal process, including all criminal competencies, the insanity defense, trial practice issues, sentencing and the death penalty. It is the only casebook available that considers the important factors that have shaped mental disability law — sanism, pretextuality, heuristics and false “ordinary common sense.” The third edition includes expanded new sections on therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law.
A Practical Companion To The Constitution: The Cumulative Supplement 2nd Series 2008-2017, Jethro K. Lieberman
A Practical Companion To The Constitution: The Cumulative Supplement 2nd Series 2008-2017, Jethro K. Lieberman
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This book serves as a supplement to A Practical Companion to the Constitution. It is a comprehensive update of constitutional topic from 2008-2017.
Law, Reason, And Emotion, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
Law, Reason, And Emotion, Mortimer N.S. Sellers
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This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for fairness and even for law itself. Human beings are deeply social creatures, inspired by social and other emotions, which can ennoble, support, or undermine the law. Law gains legitimacy and effectiveness when reason recognizes and embraces human emotions for the benefit of society as a whole. This volume explores the power and …