FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Project 39A in collaboration with Eleos Justice at Monash University has developed a course on forensic mental health and criminal justice. This four week course explores the legal and forensic mental health aspects in three broad areas - fitness to stand trial, the defense of insanity, and the role of mental health in capital punishment cases. The course also has a comparative law element with experts from the UK and Australia. For an interactive and engaging experience, it has been designed to include discussions, polls, case studies and quizzes in addition to the lectures by the experts. The course has been curated on the basis of the extensive research and criminal defense work conducted by Project 39A in the area of mental health and criminal justice.

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• Maitreyi Misra heads the work on mental health and criminal justice along with death penalty mitigation at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi.

• Judge Michael O’Connell was appointed to the County Court of Victoria, Australia, in 2017, prior to which he was the Chairperson of the Criminal Bar Association. 

• Saul Lehfreund is the Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, UK.

• Soumya AK is a Research Associate with the mental health and criminal justice team at Project 39A, National Law University Delhi.

• Dr. Richard Latham is a forensic psychiatrist working in the NHS in London, UK.

• Dr Bhavika Vajawat is a Senior Resident in Forensic Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India.

• Dr Danny Sullivan is the Executive Director of clinical services at Forensicare, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Victoria, Australia.