LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO INCARCERATED PEOPLE

LAW 798

Covers the Wisconsin Rules of Professional Conduct as specifically applied to criminal defense practice. Topics covered include perjured testimony, confidentiality, client counseling, witness interviewing, handling evidence, hard bargaining, statements regarding judicial qualifications and contempt of court.

PSYCHIAT 933

Broad set of experiences in public health service and public health advocacy, and exposure to a number of community resources and organizations. Spend time within a mental health integrated care setting under faculty supervision. These models of care have been shown to be cost-effective ways of delivering mental health care to large numbers of patients, thereby addressing a public health need given the serious shortage of Psychiatrists. Work with the Wisconsin Medical Society to receive media training and write and record a public service announcement on a Psychiatric public health issue. Receive Advocacy training. Attend meetings of local professional advocacy organizations (e.g., the Wisconsin Medical Society, Dane County Medical Society) with the Course Director, dependent on time of enrollment.

LAW 913

Introduction to cases, statutes, and legal doctrines related to rights, treatment, and hospitalization and incarceration of mentally ill persons. Includes topics such as involuntary civil commitment; the historical arc of psychiatric hospitals; competency to stand trial assessment and restoration; insanity defense evaluations; moral panics and socio-legal repercussions; right to refuse psychiatric treatment; effectiveness of psychotropic medicine; dangerousness and risk; social science research of eyewitness memory, interrogation and confessions, and jury decision-making; juveniles and treatment; regulation of the mental health system and mental health providers; confidentiality and duty to protect clients; policing functions; and personal mental health for lawyers.

LEGALST/RP&SE 135

Explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and disability. Explores common experiences of persons with disability such as limited access to community services, poverty, and homelessness and the connection of these experiences to mass incarceration. Explores federal disability rights laws and the implementation of these laws in education, legal, and incarceration settings. Introduction to criminal justice reform to address the experiences of persons with disabilities in this system.

LAW 796

Preparation for the Public Defender Project summer externship with the Wisconsin State Public Defender. Covers basic lawyering skills like client interviewing and counseling, investigation and negotiation, and various aspects of criminal defense practice in Wisconsin including initial appearances, preliminary hearings, discovery, sentencing and revocation hearings.