Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law

Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law
Author: Michael L. Perlin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789903912

Written by esteemed legal scholar Michael L. Perlin, this indispensable Advanced Introduction examines the long-standing but ever-dynamic relationship between law and mental health. The author discusses and contextualises how the law, primarily in the United States but also in other countries, treats mental health, intellectual disabilities, and mental incapacity, giving examples of how issues such as the rights of patients, the death penalty and the insanity defense permeate constitutional, civil, and criminal matters, and indeed the general practice of law.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature

Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature
Author: Peter Goodrich
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789906008

Peter Goodrich presents a unique introduction to the concept of jurisliterature. Highlighting how lawyers have been extraordinarily productive of literary, artistic and political works, Goodrich explores the diversity and imagination of the law and literature tradition. Jurisliterature, he argues, is the source of legal invention and the sign of novelty in judgments.

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789903157

This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology

Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology
Author: Tyler, Tom R.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839109734

Leading scholar Tom R. Tyler provides a timely and engaging introduction to the field of law and psychology. This Advanced Introduction outlines the main areas of research, their relevance to law and the way that psychological findings have shaped – or failed to shape – the corresponding areas of law. Key features include focus on the relevance of psychological theories to topics in law, emphasis on the institutional realities within which law functions and discussion of the problems of bringing research findings into the legal system.

Mental Health Law in China

Mental Health Law in China
Author: Bo Chen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-05-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000573052

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. The work explores China’s mental health law reform regarding treatment decision-making in the new era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It adopts a socio-legal approach, not only by undertaking a comprehensive desk-based analysis of the reforms introduced by China’s Mental Health Law (MHL) but also examining its implementation based on evidence from practice. The book seeks to investigate whether China’s first national MHL takes a step closer to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on mental health treatment decision-making, and, if not, why not? The book will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and disability, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Advanced Introduction to Public Policy

Advanced Introduction to Public Policy
Author: B. G. Peters
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789908272

In this updated second edition, internationally renowned scholar B. Guy Peters provides a succinct introduction to public policy and illustrates the design approach to policy problems. Peters demonstrates how decision-makers can make more effective choices and why a design approach to public intervention can improve policy formulation.

Advanced Introduction to Global Administrative Law

Advanced Introduction to Global Administrative Law
Author: Sabino Cassese
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789904226

Sabino Cassese presents an incisive introduction to the essential principles of global law, exploring the central theories of globalization through an analysis of the main developments in this area. The Advanced Introduction concludes that despite the ongoing dialectic between national governments and international institutions, globalization and states are progressing in parallel, while civil societies are increasingly involved in the machinery of globalization.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Entrepreneurship

Advanced Introduction to Law and Entrepreneurship
Author: Shubha Ghosh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788978684

This important Advanced Introduction considers the multiple ways in which law and entrepreneurship intertwine. Shubha Ghosh expertly explores key areas defining the field, including lawyering, innovation policy, intellectual property and economics and finance, to enhance both legal and pedagogical concepts.

Advanced Introduction to Global Sports Law

Advanced Introduction to Global Sports Law
Author: Stephen F. Ross
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789905109

Stephen F. Ross presents this succinct introduction to key topics of law specific to sports, comparing approaches to sports law across the globe, with particular focus on the United States, Europe, and common law jurisdictions. Contrasting the profit-maximizing approach of North American leagues with the global integrated approach of professional sports governed by national and international governing boards, the book offers a novel model for the latter.

Advanced Introduction to Behavioral Law and Economics

Advanced Introduction to Behavioral Law and Economics
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 103532315X

This highly informative Advanced Introduction explores the diverse and far-reaching legal implications of some of the key findings of behavioral economics. This Advanced Introduction provides a much-needed assessment and analysis of the law as a critical domain for the use of behavioral economics, and investigates how techniques including nudging, mandates, and taxes can be used to enhance the effectiveness and improve the implementation of the law.