Premium
Therapeutic jurisprudence in a comparative law context
Author(s) -
Wexler David B.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199722/06)15:3<233::aid-bsl263>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - therapeutic jurisprudence , jurisprudence , doctrine , context (archaeology) , law , scholarship , legal doctrine , medicine , political science , psychiatry , paleontology , mental health , biology
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.