Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks Recent documents in Susan Brooks en-us Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:21:10 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/13 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/13 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:48:26 PDT Susan Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/12 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/12 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:45:33 PDT Susan Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/11 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/11 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:42:27 PDT Susan Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/10 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/10 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:37:45 PDT Andy Shookhoff http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/9 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/9 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:31:35 PDT Creating a unified family court, or any type of family court reform, may have only a minimal impact if it simply changes the structure of how judges do business rather than addresses the structure of the child welfare system itself.The authors argue that family court reform must place social justice at its center. First, they discuss profound flaws in the child welfare system that make poor and minority families especially vulnerable to coercive state intervention. Second, they describe two approaches to child welfare cases-family systems theory and therapeutic justice that can help to guide reform efforts directed at addressing these structural flaws. Finally, they suggest ways in which family law scholarship can assist in creating a social justice agenda for family court reform. Susan Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/8 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/8 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:12:16 PST Karen Tokarz http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/7 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/7 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:06:28 PST This article explores a new approach to legal practice grounded in human development and social interaction theories, and previews the contents of a forthcoming volume co-edited by its authors. The context for this approach is the deep and widespread yearning among legal professionals to recapture past idealized images of the 'citizen lawyer', guided by the dramatic changes that have occurred within the profession as well as in our increasingly global society. This yearning is reflected in the convergence of a number of movements that have swept across a wide swath of the legal profession - including practitioners, judges, and legal scholars/educators. Such movements include Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Preventive Law, Restorative Justice, Transformative Mediation, and Humanizing Legal Education. This forward-looking approach, called 'Relationship-Centered Lawyering,' directly responds to the call for a revitalized understanding of professionalism and professional training when it comes to the practice of law. A unique feature of this framework is its empirically tested scientific base. This relational approach is grounded in well-accepted principles and theories principally drawn from the mental health fields of social work and psychology. The relationship-centered approach calls upon lawyers to gain competency in three distinct areas: (1) contextualized understandings of human development; (2) just and effective legal process; and (3) affective and interpersonal competence. Susan L. Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/6 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/6 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:51:47 PDT Susan L. Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/5 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/5 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:47:26 PDT Susan L. Brooks http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/4 http://works.bepress.com/susan_brooks/4 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:44:55 PDT Susan L. Brooks