Alison Lynch

Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates

185 West Broadway

New York, NY 10013

United States

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Scholarly Papers (16)

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'My Bewildering Brain Toils in Vain': Traumatic Brain Injury, the Criminal Trial Process, and the Case of Lisa Montgomery

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3777551
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Feb 2021
Alison Lynch, Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo
Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates, New York Law School and New York Law School
Downloads 396 (155,090)
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'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

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2021 (Forthcoming), NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3747133
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 23 Dec 2020
Alison Lynch and Michael L. Perlin
Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates and New York Law School
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psychopathy; punishment; neuroimaging, therapeutic jurisprudence; criminal law; criminal procedure; antisocial personality disorder; racial bias

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'In the Wasteland of Your Mind': Criminology, Scientific Discoveries and the Criminal Process

Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper 2726611
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Feb 2016
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Sentencing, criminology, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, therapeutic jurisprudence, mental disability, biology, human behavior, sanism, neuroscience, neuroimaging

'All His Sexless Patients': Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Competence to Have Sex

Forthcoming, Washington Law Review, 2014
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2014
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Sexuality, competency, patient's rights, international human rights law, mental disability law, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, psychiatric institutions, therapeutic jurisprudence, marriage, statutory rape

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'Love is Just a Four-Letter Word': Sexuality, International Human Rights, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jan 2014
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Sexuality, patients rights, international human rights law, mental disability law, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, psychiatric institutions, therapeutic jurisprudence

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'The Distant Ships of Liberty': Why Criminology Needs to Take Seriously International Human Rights Laws that Apply to Persons with Disabilities

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
New York Law School, Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates, Dep't of Criminology & justice and Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law, Students
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international human rights; forensic patients; therapeutic jurisprudence; criminology; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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'Some Mother's Child Has Gone Astray': Neuroscientific Approaches to a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model of Juvenile Sentencing

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3729503
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Nov 2020
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Mental disability law; therapeutic jurisprudence; juvenile law; sentencing; neuroimaging; punishment; death penalty; neuroscience

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'Had to Be Held Down by Big Police': A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective on Interactions between Police and Persons with Mental Disabilities

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Forthcoming, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2676909
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Oct 2015
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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police, mental disability, therapeutic jurisprudence, arrests, jails, crisis intervention training

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'My Brain is so Wired': Neuroimaging's Role in Competency Cases Involving Persons with Mental Disabilities

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3016035, 27 B.U. PUB. INT. L.J. 73 (2018)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 29 May 2018
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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therapeutic jurisprudence, competency to stand trial, neuroscience, neuroimaging, disability law, criminal procedure

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'Mr. Bad Example': Why Lawyers Need to Embrace Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Root Out Sanism in the Representation of Persons with Mental Disabilities

Wyoming Law Review, Forthcoming, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Nov 2015
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Therapeutic jurisprudence, mental disability, sexuality, social justice, sanism, legal representation

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'Toiling in the Danger and in the Morals of Despair': Risk, Security, Danger, the Constitution, and the Clinician's Dilemma

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2016
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
Downloads 151 (400,877)
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Forensic institutions, risk, security, clinicians, therapeutic jurisprudence, CRPD, international human rights law, forensic patients

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Therapeutic jurisprudence, mental disability, legal education, sexuality, social justice

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'She's Nobody's Child/The Law Can't Touch Her at All': Seeking to Bring Dignity to Legal Proceedings Involving Juveniles

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2912499
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Feb 2017
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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Juveniles, Civil Commitment, Juvenile Delinquency, Criminal Procedure, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, International Human Rights Law, Shame and Humiliation, Dignity

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'To Wander Off in Shame': Deconstructing the Shaming and Shameful Arrest Policies of Urban Police Departments in Their Treatment of Persons with Mental Disabilities

Forthcoming chapter in Power, Humiliation and Conflict (Prof. Daniel Rothbart, George Mason University), NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2839820
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Sep 2016
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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humiliation, shame, dignity, therapeutic jurisprudence, police, nuisance crimes, dignity, persons with mental disabilities, crisis intervention training, Memphis model

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'Life's Hurried Tangled Road': A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis of Why Dedicated Counsel Must Be Assigned to Represent Persons with Mental Disabilities in Community Settings

NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2833365
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Sep 2016
Alison Lynch and Michael L. Perlin
Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates and New York Law School
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police, mental disability, therapeutic jurisprudence, arrests, jails, crisis intervention training; adequacy of counsel; community treatment

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A TJ Approach to Mental Disability Rights Research: On Sexual Autonomy and Sexual Offending

THE METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE (Nigel Stobbs, Lorana Bartels & Michel Vols, eds. 2019) (Carolina Academic Press) , NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3771958
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
Michael L. Perlin, Heather Cucolo and Alison Lynch
New York Law School, New York Law School and Mental Disability Law & Policy Associates
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therapeutic jurisprudence; sexuality; sex offender law; mental disability law