Trauma-Informed Law: A Primer for Practicing Lawyers and a Pathway for Resilience and Healing

by J. Kim Wright

This book is a primer on trauma-informed lawyering, and a starting point for resilience and even healing. Trauma-Informed Law provides information and analysis from experts in law, psychology, and allied fields. Trauma-Informed Law discusses the many intersections of trauma and law where it is often denied, ignored, covered up, or avoided. The book is intended for lawyers, law students, legal educators, and judges, as well as decision-makers, administrators, staff, and anyone impacted by the court. It is a collection of cases and situations with practice implications for other cases impacted by trauma, whether those cases and situations involve race, class, gender, different physical or mental abilities (or disability), sexual orientation or other diverse factors including the impact of developmental health issues, addiction, substance abuse, poverty, access to opportunities, community safety or belonging and more. Each scenario holds useful implications for both practice issues within the same area of law and even in other areas of law or the legal system. Table of Introduction to Trauma-Informed Lawyering Why it The Context for Trauma-Informed Lawyering Lawyers’ Perspectives on What is Trauma in the Law & Lawyering Legal Practice and Trauma Tools for Lawyers and Practice Underlying Principles of Trauma-Informed Tools Trauma & Healing in Legal Courts and Judges Legal Education and Trauma Systems Change and The Legal System and Systematic or Collective Trauma Conclusion

Genres: Legal

242 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2023