Law professor Bruce J. Winick: R.I.P.

Therapeutic jurisprudence pioneer and law professor Bruce Winick has died. I received the sad news on the therapeutic jurisprudence listserv this morning.

From Professor Winick's Web page at University of Miami School of Law:

Bruce J. Winick is a Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.  The co-founder of the school of social enquiry known as therapeutic jurisprudence, Winick is Director of the University of Miami School of Law Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center.  He was the first the recipient of the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professorship during the 2009-2010 academic year.
 
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Winick is Chair of the American Association of Law Schools’ section on Balance in Legal Education.  He is co-editor of the American Psychological Association Books book series, Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences. Winick is also legal advisor

and member of the board of editors of Psychology, Public Policy & Law, serves on the editorial board of Law & Human Behavior, and is a reviewer for numerous interdisciplinary law journals. He has served as legal consultant to the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Consent to Voluntary Hospitalization, and has chaired the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Medicine.

Click to read the rest.

Click to watch a video interview of Professor Winick (in 7 parts on the Cutting Edge Law Web site).

Other posts and articles about him:

• Bruce J. Winick (Discourse.net)
• What Can You Accomplish as a Lawyer? Renowned Lawyer and Legal Scholar Bruce Winick Has Died (PrawfsBlawg)
• UM LAW PROFESSOR BRUCE WINICK PASSES AWAY (University of Miami School of Law)
• Obituary: Bruce J. Winick | UM law professor (Miami Herald)
• Memorial page at University of Miami where one can post a remembrance

Image credit: brucewinick.com.

Comments

[michael springer]

I am here in israel, crying for the sad and fast deprture of my best friend. Can't even say the word.The smartest kindest man, his spirit and deep seaking mind,our jocks our talks...all are gone, accept for the most wonderfull memories.

[StephanieWestAllen]

Hello, Michael. I am very sorry for the loss of your friend. I never met him but have heard wonderful things about him; it is a sad day.

I watched some of the videos of Professor Winick to which I linked above and was particularly moved by the last two.