Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1 Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws Bernadette McSherry and Penelope Weller
PART 2 HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
2 Institutionalising the Community: The Codification of Clinical Authority and the Limits of Rights-Based
Approaches Philip Fennell
3 Lost in Translation: Human Rights and Mental Health Law Penelope Weller
4 The Fusion Proposal: A Next Step? Neil Rees
PART 3 THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
5 The Expressive, Educational and Proactive Roles of Human Rights: An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Oliver Lewis
6 Involuntary Treatment Decisions: Using Negotiated Silence to Facilitate Change? Annegret Kämpf
7 Abolishing Mental Health Laws to Comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Tina Minkowitz
PART 4 GAPS BETWEEN LAWAND PRACTICE
8 Rights-Based Legalism: Some Thoughts from the Research Genevra Richardson
9 Extra-Legislative Factors in Involuntary Status Decision-Making Ian Freckelton
10 Civil Admission Following a Finding of Unfitness to Plead Jill Peay
PART 5 REVIEW PROCESSES AND THE ROLE OF TRIBUNALS
11 Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The 'Rights' and the Wrongs of Competing Models? Terry Carney
12 Reviews of Treatment Decisions: Legalism, Process and the Protection of Rights Mary Donnelly
13 Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience Joaquin Zuckerberg
14 Compulsory Outpatient Treatment and the Calculus of Human Rights John Dawson
PART 6 ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
15 Rights-Based Legalism and the Limits of Mental Health Law: The United States of America's Experience John Petrila
16 The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law Bernadette McSherry
17 Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the 'First World'Peter Bartlett

About the Author

Bernadette McSherry is ARC Federation Fellow, and Professor of Law at Monash University
Penelope Weller is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the ARC Federation Fellowship at Monash University

Reviews

...a thought provoking book for those with an interest in this field and I would recommend it.
*Frontline, No. 84*