Michael L. Perlin

Publications

• “Their Futures, So Full of Dread”: How Barefoot’s Contamination of the Death Penalty Trial Process Continues
  27 RICH. PUB. INT. L. REV. 77 (2024) · Richmond Public Interest Law Review · 2024
• “Take the Motherless Children off the Street”: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Criminal Justice System
  77 U. MIAMI L. REV. 561 (2023) · University of Miami Law Review · 2023
• “In These Times of Compassion when Conformity’s in Fashion”: How Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Root Out Bias, Limit Polarization, and Support Vulnerable Persons in the Legal Process
  10 TEX. A & M L. REV. 219 (2023) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2023
• “I See What Is Right and Approve, but I Do What Is Wrong”: Psychopathy and Punishment in the Context of Racial Bias in the Age of Neuroimaging
  25 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 453 (2021) · Lewis & Clark Law Review · 2021
• “A World of Steel-Eyed Death”: An Empirical Evaluation of the Failure of the Strickland Standard to Ensure Adequate Counsel to Defendants with Mental Disabilities Facing the Death Penalty
  53 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 261 (2020) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2020

• “There’s Voices in the Night Trying to Be Heard”: The Potential Impact of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Domestic Mental Disability Law
  84 BROOK. L. REV. (2019) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2019
• Temptation's Page Flies Out the Door: Navigating Complex Systems of Disability and the Law from a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective
  25 BUFF. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 1 (2019) · Buffalo Human Rights Law Review · 2019
• “Some Things Are Too Hot to Touch”: Competency, the Right to Sexual Autonomy, and the Roles of Lawyers and Expert Witnesses
  35 TOURO L. REV. (2019) · Touro Law Review · 2019
• “Who Will Judge the Many When the Game isThrough?”: Considering the Profound DifferencesBetween Mental Health Courts and “Traditional”Involuntary Civil Commitment Courts
  41 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 937 (2018) · Seattle University Law Review · 2018
• "Your Old Road Is/ Rapidly Agin'": International Human Rights Standards and Their Impact on Forensic Psychologists, the Practice of Forensic Psychology, and the Conditions of Institutionalization of Persons with Mental Disabilities
  17 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 79 (2018) · Washington University Global Studies Law Review · 2018
• "I've Got My Mind Made Up": How Judicial Teleology in Cases Involving Biologically Based Evidence Violates Therapeutic Jurisprudence
  24 CARDOZO J. EQUAL RTS. & SOC. JUST. 81 (2017) · Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice · 2017
• "The Pain I Rise Above": How International Human Rights Can Best Realize the Needs of Persons with Trauma-Related Mental Disabilities
  29 FLA. J. INT'L L. (2017) · Florida Journal of International Law · 2017
• Promoting Dignity and Preventing Shame and Humiliation by Improving the Quality and Education of Attorneys in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Civil Commitment Cases
  28 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2017) · University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2017
• “Toiling in the Danger and in the Morals of Despair”: Risk, Security, Danger, the Constitution, and the Clinician’s Dilemma
  Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality · 2017
• Said I, 'But You Have No Choice': Why a Lawyer Must Ethically Honor a Client's Decision about Mental Health Treatment Even if It Is Not What S/he Would Have Chosen
  15 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL 'Y & ETHICS J. 73 (2016) · Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal · 2016
• "Had to Be Held Down by Big Police": A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective on Interactions Between Police and Persons with Mental Disabilities
  43 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 685 (2016) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2016
• “Mr. Bad Example”: Why Lawyers Need to Embrace Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Root Out Sanism in the Representation of Persons with Mental Disabilities
  16 WYO. L. REV 299 (2016) · Wyoming Law Review · 2016
• “Merchants and Thieves, Hungry for Power”: Prosecutorial Misconduct and Passive Judicial Complicity in Death Penalty Trials of Defendants with Mental Disabilities
  73 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1501 (2016) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2016
• "Your Corrupt Ways Had Finally Made You Blind": Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Use of "Ethnic Adjustments" in Death Penalty Cases of Defendants with Intellectual Disabilities
  65 AM. U. L. REV. (2016) · American University Law Review · 2016
• Creating a "Building a Disability Rights Information Center for Asia and the Pacific Clinic": Pedagogy and Social Justice
  17 MARQ. BEN. & SOC. WEL. L. REV. 1 (2015) · Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review · 2015
• How Teaching About Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Be a Tool of Social Justice, and Lead Law Students to Personally and Socially Rewarding Careers: Sexuality and Disability as a Case Example
  16 NV. L.J. FORUM 209 (2015) · Nevada Law Journal · 2015
• “I Expected It to Happen/I Knew He’d Lost Control”: The Impact of PTSD on Criminal Sentencing After the Promulgation of DSM-5
  2015 UTAH L. REV. (2015) · Utah Law Review · 2015
• "All His Sexless Patients": Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Competence to Have Sex
  89 WASH. L. REV. 257 (2014) · Washington Law Review · 2014
• "Striking for the Guardians and Protectors of the Mind": The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Future of Guardianship Law
  117 DICK. L. REV. 1159 (2013) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 2013
• They're Planting Stories in the Press: The Impact of Media Distortions on Sex Offender Law and Policy
  3 U. DENV. CRIM. L. REV. (2013) · University of Denver Criminal Law Review · 2013
• "John Brown Went Off to War": Considering Veterans Courts as Problem-Solving Courts
  37 NOVA L. REV. 445 (2013) · Nova Law Review · 2013
• Tangled Up In Law: The Jurisprudence of Bob Dylan
  38 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1395 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• “They Keep It All Hid”: The Ghettoization of Mental Disability Law and Its Implications for Legal Education
  54 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2010) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2010

• "A Change Is Gonna Come": The Implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the Domestic Practice of Constitutional Mental Disability Law
  29 N. ILL. U. L. REV. 483 (2009) · Northern Illinois University Law Review · 2009
• "His Brain Has Been Mismanaged with Great Skill": How Will Jurors Respond to Neuromimaging Testimony in Insanity Defense Cases?
  42 AKRON L. REV. (2009) · Akron Law Review · 2009
• "Simplify You, Classify You": Stigma, Stereotypes and Civil Rights in Disability Classification Systems
  25 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (2009) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2009
• "Everybody Is Making Love or Else Expecting Rain": Considering the Sexual Autonomy Rights of Persons Institutionalized Because of Mental Disability in Forensic Hospitals and in Asia
  83 WASH. L. REV. 481 (2008) · Washington Law Review · 2008
• “I Might Need a Good Lawyer, Could Be Your Funeral, My Trial": Global Clinical Legal Education and the Right to Counsel in Civil Commitment Cases
  28 WASH. U. J. L. & POL'Y 241 (2008) · Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2008
• An Internet-Based Mental Disability Law Program: Implications for Social Change in Nations with Developing Economies
  30 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 435 (2006) · Fordham International Law Journal · 2006
• “Ain’t No Goin’ Back”: Teaching Mental Disability Law Courses Online
  51 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 991 (2006) · NYLS Law Review · 2006
• "And My Best Friend, My Doctor/Won't Even Say What It Is I've Got": The Role and Significance of Counsel in Right to Refuse Treatment Cases
  42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 735 (2005) · San Diego Law Review · 2005
• Life Is in Mirrors, Death Disappears: Giving Life to Atkins
  33 N. M. L. REV. 315 (2003) · New Mexico Law Review · 2003
• 'Things Have Changed': Looking at Non-Institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter
  22 N.Y.L. SCH. J. INT'L & COMP. L. (2003) · NYLS Journal of International and Comparative Law · 2003
• "She Breaks Just Like a Little Girl": Neonaticide, the Insanity Defense, and the Irrelevance of "Ordinary Common Sense"
  10 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 1 (2003) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2003
• Things Have Changed: Looking at Non-Institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter
  19 NYLS J. HUM. RTS. (2003) · NYLS Journal of Human Rights · 2003
• “Things Have Changed:” Looking at Non-Institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter
  46 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. (2003) · NYLS Law Review · 2003
• "CHIMES OF FREEDOM:" INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND INSTITUTIONAL MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
  21 N.Y.L. SCH. J. INT'L & COMP. L. (2002) · NYLS Journal of International and Comparative Law · 2002
• AN OVERVIEW: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
  21 N.Y.L. SCH. J. INT'L & COMP. L. (2002) · NYLS Journal of International and Comparative Law · 2002
• "What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find Out When You Reach the Top, You're on the Bottom": Are the Americans With Disabilities Act (and <em>Olmstead v. L. C.</em>) Anything More Than "Idiot Wind?"
  35 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 235 (2001) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2001
• Symposium: Creative Problem Solving Conference -- Stepping Outside the Box: Viewing Your Client in a Whole New Light
  37 CAL. W. L. REV. (2000) · California Western Law Review · 2000
• "Johnny's in the Basement/Mixing Up His Medicine": Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Clinical Teaching
  24 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 339 (2000) · Seattle University Law Review · 2000

• Where the Winds Hit Heavy on the Borderline: Mental Disability Law, Theory and Practice, Us and Them
  31 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 775 (1998) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1998
• "Make Promises by the Hour": Sex, Drugs, the ADA, and Psychiatric Hospitalization
  46 DEPAUL L. REV. 947 (1997) · DePaul Law Review · 1997
• I'll Give You Shelter from the Storm: Privilege, Confidentiality, and Confessions of Crime
  29 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1699 (1996) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1996
• "THE EXECUTIONER'S FACE IS ALWAYS WELL-HIDDEN": THE ROLE OF COUNSEL AND THE COURTS IN DETERMINING WHO DIES
  41 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 201 (1996) · NYLS Law Review · 1996
• The Sanist Lives of Jurors in Death Penalty Cases: The Puzzling Role of Mitigating Mental Disability Evidence
  8 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 239 (1994) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 1994
• The ADA and Persons with Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone
  8 J. L. & HEALTH 15 (1993) · Journal of Law and Health · 1993
• Pretexts and Mental Disability Law: The Case of Competency
  47 U. MIAMI L. REV. 625 (1993) · University of Miami Law Review · 1993
• What is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?
  10 NYLS J. HUM. RTS. (1993) · NYLS Journal of Human Rights · 1993
• On Sanism
  46 SMU L. REV. 373 (1992) · SMU Law Review · 1992
• Book Review: Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, by Ann Braden Johnson
  8 NYLS J. HUM. RTS. (1991) · NYLS Journal of Human Rights · 1991
• Psychodynamics and the Insanity Defense: "Ordinary Common Sense" and Heuristic Reasoning
  69 NEB. L. REV. (1990) · Nebraska Law Review · 1990

• Unpacking the Myths: The Symbolism Mythology of Insanity Defense Jurisprudence
  40 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 599 (1989) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 1989
• Ten Years After: Evolving Mental Health Advocacy and Judicial Trends
  15 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 335 (1987) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 1987
• State Constitutions and Statutes as Sources of Rights for the Mentally Disabled: The Last Frontier
  20 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1249 (1987) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1987
• Can Mental Health Professionals Predict Judicial Decisionmaking? Constitutional and Tort Liability Aspects of the Right of the Institutionalized Mentally Disabled to Refuse Treatment: On the Cutting Edge
  3 TOURO L. REV. (1986) · Touro Law Review · 1986
• The Things We Do For Love: John Hinckley's Trial and the Future of the Insanity Defense in the Federal Courts
  30 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 857 (1985) · NYLS Law Review · 1985
• The German and British Roots of American Workers' Compensation Systems: When Is an "Intentional Act" "Intentional"?
  15 SETON HALL L. REV. (1985) · Seton Hall Law Review · 1985
• The Supreme Court, the Mentally Disabled Criminal Defendant, Psychiatric Testimony in Death Penalty Cases, and the Power of Symbolism: Dulling the Ake in Barefoot’s Achilles Heel
  3 NYLS J. HUM. RTS. (1985) · NYLS Journal of Human Rights · 1985
• Ethical Issues in the Representation of Individuals in the Commitment Process
  45 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 161 (1982) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1982