Listed below are Mental Disability Law related scholarly articles written by the Justice Action Center's faculty.  The listing is indexed by professor, and then in chronological order.

Professor Michael Perlin

"And My Best Friend, My Doctor/Won't Even Say What It Is I've Got":
The Role and Significance of Counsel in Right to Refuse Treatment Cases (2005)

"Everything's a Little Upside Down, As a Matter of Fact the Wheels Have Stopped": The Fraudulence of the Incompetency Evaluation Process (Symposium, Health in the Criminal Justice System) (2004)

"Life Is in Mirrors, Death Disappears": Giving Life to Atkins (Symposium, Beyond Atkins: A Symposium on the Implications of Atkins v. Virginia) (2003)

"She Breaks Just Like a Little Girl": Neonaticide, the Insanity Defense, and the Irrelevance of "Ordinary Common Sense" (Symposium, From Baby Blues to Mothers who Kill: Responses to Postpartum Disorders in the Criminal and Civil Law) (2003)

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Outpatient Commitment Law: Kendra's Law as Case Study (2003)

"Things Have Changed": Looking at Non-Institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter (2003)

"You Have Discussed Lepers and Crooks": Sanism in Clinical Teaching (2003)

"What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find Out When You Reach the Top, You're on the Bottom": Are the Americans With Disabilities Act (and Olmstead v. L.C.) Anything More Than "Idiot Wind?" (Symposium, The Americans With Disabilities Act: Directions for Reform) (2002)

A Law of Healing (2000)

"I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More": Institutional Segregation, Community Treatment, the ADA, and the Promise of  Olmstead v. L.C. (Symposium, Disability Law Symposium Legal and Treatment Issues) (2000)

"Johnny's in the Basemen/Mixing Up His Medicine": Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Clinical Teaching (2000)

"Their Promises of Paradise": Will Olmstead v. L.C. Resuscitate the Constitutional "Least Restrictive Alternative" Principle in Mental Disability Law? (2000)

Stepping Outside the Box: Viewing Your Client in a Whole New Light (Symposium, Creative Problem Solving Conference) (2000)

"Half-Wracked Prejudice Leaped Forth": Sanism, Pretextuality, and
Why and How Mental Disability Law Disability Law Developed As It Did (Symposium, Rethinking Mental Disability Law: Resolving Old Issues in a
New Millennium) (1999)

"There’s No Success Like Failure/and Failure’s No Success at All": Exposing the Pretextuality of Kansas v. Hendricks (Symposium, Throwing Away the Key: Social and Legal Responses to Child Molesters) (1998)

 

“Where the Winds Hit Heavy on the Borderline": Mental Disability Law, Theory and Practice, "Us" and "Them" (Symposium, Mental Disability Law) (1998)

 

"Make Promises by the Hour": Sex, Drugs, the ADA, and Psychiatric Hospitalization (Symposium, Individual Right and Reasonable Accomodation Under the American With Disability Act) (1997)

 

"The Borderline Which Separated You From Me": The Insanity Defense, the Authoritatian Spirit, the Fear of Faking, and the Culture of Punishment (1997)

"I'll Give You Shelter From the Storm": Privilege, Confidentiality, and Confessions of Crime (Symposium, Executing the Wrong Person: The Professionals' Ethical Dilemmas) (1996)

Is It More Than "Dodging Lions and Wastin' Time"? Adequacy of Counsel, Questions of Competence, and the Judicial Process in Individual Right to Refuse Treatment Cases (1996) (with D. Dorfman)

"The Executioner's Face is Always Well-Hidden": The Role of Counsel and the Courts in Determining Who Dies (1996)

Rashomon and the Criminal Law: Mental Disability and the Federal Sentencing Guidlines (1995) (with K. Gould) 

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Mentally Disabled Persons: Hopeless Oxymoron or Path to Redemption? (1995) (with D. Dorfman & K. Gould)

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Understanding the Sanist and Pretexual Bases of Mental Disability Law (Symposium, Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Bridging the Gap From Theory to Practice) (1994)

The Sanist Lives of Jurors in Death Penalty Cases: The Pussling Role of "Mitigating" Mental Disability Evidence (Symposium, Capital Punishment) (1994)

Hospitalized Patients and the Right to Sexual Interaction: Beyond the Last Frontier? (1993-94)

The ADA and Persons with Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone? (1993-94)

Back to the Past: Why Mental Disability Law "Reforms" Don't Reform (1993) (reviewing John Q. La Fond and Mary L. Durhm, Back to the Asylum: The Future of Mental Health Law and Policy in the United States)

What is Therapeutic Jurisprudence? (Symposium, Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Restructuring Mental Disability Law) (1993) 

On ‘Sanism’ (Symposium, Psychological Jurisprudence: Another Perspective) (1992)

Tarasoff and the Dilemma of the Dangerous Patient: New Directions for the 1990's (1992)

Competency, Deinstitutionalization, and Homelessness: A Story of Marginalization (Symposium, Mental Health in the 1990s) (1991)

 

Unpacking the Myths: The Symbolism Mythology of Insanity Defense Jurisprudence (1989/1990)