David B. Wexler

David B. Wexler is a Professor of Law at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, and the Director of the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence.

Wexler is credited with first discussing the therapeutic jurisprudence perspective in 1987,[1][2] and along with Bruce Winick is recognized as one of the two "leading scholars in this field."[3] He is a consultant on therapeutic jurisprudence to the National Judicial Institute of Canada, and has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. One author characterizes Wexler's jurisprudence as radical cenrist in orientation.[4] Constance Backhouse, a leading legal historian from Canada, has published a biography of Wexler and his work.[5]

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  1. American Bar Association (May 2001). ABA Journal. American Bar Association. pp. 79–. ISSN 0747-0088. Retrieved 25 September 2012.- But not until about a decade ago, when David Wexler and Bruce Winick formally introduced and labeled the concept "therapeutic jurisprudence" did it have a name, a shape and a definition....
  2. The Development of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: From Theory to Practice. ed. David Wexler and Bruce Winick. 68 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico 691 (1999).
  3. James L. Nolan (21 April 2011). Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement. Princeton University Press. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-0-691-15014-7. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  4. Satin, Mark (2004). Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now. Westview Press and Basic Books, p. 55. ISBN 978-0-8133-4190-3.
  5. Constance B. Backhouse, An Introduction to David Wexler, the Person Behind Therapeutic Jurisprudence, 2016, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2747488
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