Bruce Winick

Bruce J. Winick is Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he has taught since 1974. He is an internationally known scholar and lecturer.

Winick also has had a long career as a civil rights lawyer, and frequently serves as an expert witness on a variety of law-related issues. He is co-founder of the school of social enquiry known as therapeutic jurisprudence, an interdisciplinary field of legal scholarship that has a distinctive law reform agenda.

Winick has authored numerous books, including "Civil Commitment: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model" (2005), "Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts" (2003) (with David B. Wexler), "Protecting Society from Sexually Dangerous Offenders: Law, Justice, and Therapy" (2003) (with John Q. La Fond), "Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Law as a Helping Profession" (2000) (with Dennis P. Stolle and David B. Wexler) , "The Essentials of Florida Mental Health Law" (2000) (with Stephen H. Behnke and Alina Perez), "The Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment" (1997), "Therapeutic Jurisprudence Applied: Essays on Mental Health Law" (1997), "Law in a Therapeutic Key: Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence" (1996) (with David B. Wexler), and "Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence" (1991) (with David B. Wexler). He also has published more than 100 articles in law reviews, interdisciplinary journals, and books.

Professor Winick is co-editor of the American Psychological Association Press book series, Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences. He is legal advisor and member of the board of editors of "Psychology, Public Policy & Law", and serves on the editorial board of Law & Human Behavior.

Winick has received numerous awards, including the University of Miami Provost’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the Thurgood Marshall Award of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Human Rights Award of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Professor Winick previously served as New York City’s Director of Court Mental Health Services and as General Counsel of its Department of Mental Health.

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[http://www.law.miami.edu/facadmin/faculty/bwinick.html University of Miami entry]