UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick, the co-founder of the social enquiry known as therapeutic jurisprudence, will lead a Therapeutic Jurisprudence symposium being held at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida on February 27, 2009. The event is being hosted by the Florida Coastal Law Review, and will concentrate on the application of the ideals of therapeutic jurisprudence to employment law, death and dying, form reform, and family law.

Professor Winick co-founded therapeutic jurisprudence with David Wexler, a professor of law at the University of Arizona. Wexler will join Professor Winick at the event, where Professor Winick will speak on public health law relating to the elderly and Professor Wexler will speak on form reform in criminal law.

Others scheduled to speak at the symposium include Professor Susan Daicoff from Florida Coastal School of Law; Professor David Yamada from Suffolk University Law School; Professor Kathy Cerminara from Nova Southeastern University; Professor Cindy Adcock from Charlotte School of Law; Professor Shelley Kierstead from Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada); Professor Marsha Freeman from at Berry University School of Law; and Dax Miller, a third-year law student from Florida Coastal School of Law.



posted 19-February-2009