David B. Wexler is a Professor of Law at the University of Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico

The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...

 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law

James E. Rogers College of Law

James E. Rogers College of Law is the law school at the University of Arizona located in Tucson, Arizona and was the first law school founded in the State of Arizona, opening its doors in 1915. Formerly known as University of Arizona College of Law, it was renamed in 1999 in honor of noted...

, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

, and the Director of the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence.

Wexler is credited with first discussing the therapeutic jurisprudence

Therapeutic jurisprudence

Therapeutic jurisprudence is a term first used by Professor David Wexler, and University of Puerto Rico School of Law, in a paper delivered to the National Institute of Mental Health in 1987...

 perspective in 1987. He is a consultant on therapeutic jurisprudence to the National Judicial Institute of Canada, and has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Published works

• Rehabilitating Lawyers: Principles of Therapeutic Jurisprudence for Criminal Law Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2008) Read book info...
• Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts (with Bruce Winick
  Bruce Winick
  Bruce J. Winick was the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he had taught since 1974. He was an internationally known scholar and lecturer in mental health law and in law and...
  
  ) (Carolina Academic Press 2003)
• Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Law as a Helping Profession (with Dennis P. Stolle and Bruce Winick
  Bruce Winick
  Bruce J. Winick was the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he had taught since 1974. He was an internationally known scholar and lecturer in mental health law and in law and...
  
  ) (Carolina Academic Press 2000)
• Law in a Therapeutic Key: Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (with Bruce Winick
  Bruce Winick
  Bruce J. Winick was the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he had taught since 1974. He was an internationally known scholar and lecturer in mental health law and in law and...
  
  ) (Carolina Academic Press 1996)
• Essays in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (with Bruce Winick
  Bruce Winick
  Bruce J. Winick was the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he had taught since 1974. He was an internationally known scholar and lecturer in mental health law and in law and...
  
  ) (Carolina Academic Press 1991)
• Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Law as a Therapeutic Agent (Carolina Academic Press 1990)
• Mental Health Law: Major Issues (Plenum Press 1981).

Achievements and recognitions

• Manfred S. Guttmacher Forensic Psychiatry Award, American Psychiatric Association;
• American Bar Association's Commission on Mental Disability and the Law, chair;
• Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Mental Disability, chair;
• Advisory Board of the National Center for State Courts' Institute on Mental Disability and Law, chair;
• Panel on Legal Issues of the President's Commission on Mental Health, member;
• National Commission on the Insanity Defense, member;
• International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Vice President;
• New York University School of Law Distinguished Alumnus Legal Scholarship/Teaching Award;
• Distinguished Service Award from the National Center for State Courts;
• MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law, member;
• Honorary Distinguished Member of the American Psychology-Law Society.

External links

• Profile, at the James E. Rogers College of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law is the law school at the University of Arizona located in Tucson, Arizona and was the first law school founded in the State of Arizona, opening its doors in 1915. Formerly known as University of Arizona College of Law, it was renamed in 1999 in honor of noted...
  
  
• International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
• David B. Wexler, at the Social Science Research Network
  Social Science Research Network
  The Social Science Research Network is a website devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. SSRN is viewed as particularly strong in the fields of economics, finance, accounting, management, and law. SSRN was founded in 1994 by Michael Jensen ...
  
  (SSRN)