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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
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Denise Trauth '08
Read their story"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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