Articles

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Teaching with Emotion: Enriching the Educational Experience of First-Year Law Students, San Diego L. Rev. (2010)

Through the case method and Socratic dialogue, first year law students are taught to develop...

 

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The Greatest Legal Movie of All Time: Proclaiming the Real Winner, San Diego Law Review (2010)

In August, 2008, the ABA Journal featured an article entitled: “The 25 Greatest Legal Movies.”...

 

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"Let's Do the Time Warp Again": Assessing the Competence of Counsel in Mental Health Conservatorship Proceedings, San Diego L. Rev. (2009)

Thirty years ago, I wrote an article on mental health conservatorships in California and the...

 

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Preparing Law Students for Disappointing Exam Results: Lessons from "Casey at the Bat", San Diego Law Review (2008)

It is a statistical fact of life that two-thirds of the law students who enter...

 

Books

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Refusing the Right to Refuse: Coerced Treatment of Mentally Disabled Persons (2006)

Under the common law doctrine of informed consent, if a person is competent to understand...

 

Other

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Pursuing Justice for the Mentally Disabled, University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series (2005)

This article considers whether lawyers act as zealous advocates when they represent mentally disordered, involuntarily...

 

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Competency to Stand Trial on Trial (with Ansar M. Haroun and David Naimark), University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series (2004)

This Article considers the legal standards for the determination of competency to stand trial, and...

 

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Mental Disorder and the Civil/Criminal Distinction, University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series (2004)

This essay, written as part of a symposium issue to commemorate the 50th anniversary of...