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Weaver Institute

  • The Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

    • Applying legal perspectives to mental health and psychiatric issues
    • Helping law students and practicing attorneys learn how psychiatry aids in resolving legal matters
    • Exploring social policy that affects mental health and legal concerns.

    The Institute’s mission:

    • To provide opportunities—including classroom instruction, educational symposia, and public lectures—that encourage law students and legal practitioners to learn more about mental health law
    • To teach students and legal practitioners about the many contexts in which the law uses information from the fields of psychiatry and psychology
    • To promote scholarship and learning in forensic psychiatry
    • To encourage attorneys and students to develop the interests, skills, and talents needed to deal successfully with psychiatric evidence in court
    • To help students interested in mental health law and psychiatry develop the knowledge and background needed to handle psychiatric issues that affect criminal adjudication, civil cases, correctional decision-making, and legislation

  • Featured Story

    Denise Trauth '08

    "The Weaver Institute does an excellent job of highlighting the importance of the interaction between the law and the mental health field, and I am very fortunate to attend a law school that offers a fellowship focusing on my two favorite academic disciplines. My law school experience would have been much less gratifying without the Institute."

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