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Law And Mental Health: A Relationship In Crisis? (Introduction), Sheila Wildeman

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An Introduction to the Lectures of Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Nova Scotia Provincial Court Judge Anne Derrick. What is the significance of the rule of law to the area of professional knowledge and practice that is “mental health”—or to the interaction of those two aspirational, one might say euphemistically-named social systems: the mental health and justice systems? This question centres upon the rule of law—specifically, I suggest (as I relate further in closing), a thick conception of the rule of law grounded in an ideal of state-subject reciprocity1 —and not, or not directly, upon the …