Legal Resources & Court Cases
For Practitioners
Legal Resources & Court Cases
Information about the law and important or current court opinions can be found at these sites:
- List of Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry (by Dr. James Hooper)
- Psychiatry & Law Updates Website "An Educational Service for Mental Health Clinicians, Clinical & Forensic Psychiatrists and Psychologists, Other Forensic Professionals, Attorneys, Judges, and Judicial Professionals"
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform
- Links to State Mental Health Courts (from National Center for State Courts)
- Mental Health Courts Resource Guide (from National Center for State Courts)
- Mental Health Law Links (from megalaw.com)
- Psychiatry and Law Updates
- Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Mental Health Law Decisions - from LII
- Summary of State Laws for Mental Health Treatment (from Treatment Advocacy Center)
- The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
Continuing Education Information
Workshops from which Continuing Education credit may be earned are frequently held in association with the AP-LS Annual Conference. The programming for annual conferences can be found on the conference web page
Other Links
- David Willshire's Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Links
- http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Forensic
- Links from Lloyd Sealy Library @ John Jay College for Criminal Justice
- Links & Other Resources (from Dr. Karen Franklin)
- Forensic Resource and Criminal Law Search Site (sponsored by Forensic Bioinformatics)
- UK Forensic Psychology Advice about Forensic Psychology from the British Psychological Society
For Legal Professionals
Legal Resources & Court Opinions
Sites that archive and publish recent court decisions:
- Supreme Court Opinions through The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (also includes Federal Rules of Evidence, Criminal Procedures, Bankruptcy, and Civil Procedure)
- U.S. Courts of Appeals Page
- State Court Opinions (through LII/Cornell)
- State Court Opinions (through FindLaw)
- American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO)
Resources about Mental Health Law, including recent and important laws and cases:
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform
- Links to State Mental Health Courts (from National Center for State Courts)
- Mental Health Courts Resource Guide (from National Center for State Courts)
- Mental Health Law Links (from megalaw.com)
- Psychiatry and Law Updates
- Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Mental Health Law Decisions - from LII
- Summary of State Laws for Mental Health Treatment (from Treatment Advocacy Center)
- The Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
Other Legal Resources
Criminal Justice Resources
Psychology and law and criminal justice share many interests. The following links may be more appropriate for those interested in criminal justice or criminology:
- National or state organizations & agencies:
- United States Department of Justice
- Office of Justice Programs
- California Criminal Justice Statistics Center
- Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
- Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
- National Center for State Courts
- National Criminal Justice Association
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- The DNA Initiative (dna.gov)
- U.S. Courts Home Page
- Educational research centers
- Foundations & other organizations:
- Other collections of links:
