Online Mental Disability Law Program Course Textbooks

Books for the Online Mental Disability Law Program can be purchased from the New York Law School Bookstore via the Web at www.nyls.bncollege.com.

Advocacy Skills in Cases Involving Persons with Mental Disabilities: The Role of Lawyers and Expert Witnesses
Michael L. Perlin, Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Durham; Carolina Academic Press, 2005) (2d edition).
Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (Washington, D.C.; American Psychological Association, 2000).
Michael L. Perlin; Keri Gould; Pamela Cohen; Henry Dlugacz; and Richard Friedman, Lawyering Skills for the Representation of Persons with Mental Disabilities (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2006).

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Law, Policy and Practice
Ruth Colker, The Law of Disability Discrimination (7th Edition), (LexisNexis, 2009).
David M. Engel & Frank W. Munger, Rights of Inclusion: Law & Identity in the Life of Americans with Disabilities (U. Chicago Press, 2003).

Custody Evaluations, Juvenile and Family Law and Mental Disability
Joanna Bunker Rohrbaugh, A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations: Mental Health and Legal Perspectives (New York; Springer Verlag, 2008).
Philip Michael Stahl, Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide (Sage Publications, 1994).

Forensic Reports, the Role of Experts and Forensic Ethics
Shane Bush, Mary Connell, Robert Denney, Ethical Practice in Forensic Psychology: A Systematic Model for Decision Making, (American Psychological Association, 2006).

International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law
Michael L. Perlin, Arlene S. Kanter, Mary Pat Treuthart, Eva Szeli & Kris Gledhill, International Human Rights and Comparative Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
Michael L. Perlin, Arlene S. Kanter, Mary Pat Treuthart, Eva Szeli & Kris Gledhill, International Human Rights and Comparative Mental Disability Law: Documents Supplement (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).

Mental Disability and Criminal Law
Michael L. Perlin, Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Durham; Carolina Academic Press, 2005) (2d edition).
Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (Washington, D.C.; American Psychological Association, 2000).

Mental Health Issues in Jails and Prisons
Michael L. Perlin & Henry A. Dlugacz, Mental Health Issues in Jails & Prisons: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).

Mental Illness, Dangerousness, the Police Power and Risk Assessment
Michael L. Perlin, Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Durham; Carolina Academic Press, 2005) (2d edition).
Michael L. Perlin; Keri Gould; Pamela Cohen; Henry Dlugacz; and Richard Friedman, Lawyering Skills for the Representation of Persons with Mental Disabilities (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2006).

Sex Offenders
Eric S. Janus, Failure to Protect (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006).
Bruce J. Winick and John Q. La Fond, Protecting Society From Sexually Dangerous Offenders (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2003).
 

Survey of Mental Disability Law
Michael L. Perlin, Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials (Durham; Carolina Academic Press, 2005) (2d edition).
Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial, (Washington, D.C.; American Psychological Association, 2000).
Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, (Random House, 1983).
Michael Winerip, 9 Highland Road: Sane Living for the Mentally Ill, (Vintage Books, 1995).

Race, Gender, Class, and Mental Disability
Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (Washington, D.C.; American Psychological Association, 2000).

Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Bruce J. Winick, Civil Commitment:  A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model (Carolina Academic Press , 2005).
David B. Wexler & Bruce J. Winick, Law in a Therapeutic Key: Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (Carolina Academic Press, 1996).
Perlin, Michael, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (American Psychological Association, 2000).

Trauma and Mental Disability
There are no assigned text books for this course. Instead all required reading is provided through links in the syllabus on the course website.