Citation

Wexler DB. Behav. Sci. Law 1997; 15(3): 233-246.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199722/06)15:3<233::AID-BSL263>3.0.CO;2-S

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Therapeutic jurisprudence is the study of the role of the law as a therapeutic agent. Legal rules, legal procedures, and the roles of legal actors are seen as social forces that may produce therapeutic or antitherapeutic consequences. With a focus on legal arrangements and therapeutic outcomes, interest in therapeutic jurisprudence is less tied to domestic legal doctrine than are many other areas of legal scholarship. The present article proposes a comparative law approach to the study of therapeutic jurisprudence, and discusses some of the benefits--and possible cautions--of such an approach. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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