Bruce J. Winick is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, FL. Professor Winick is co-founder of the field of social enquiry known as Therapeutic Jurisprudence.
He also has published more than 80 articles in law reviews, interdisciplinary journals, and books. Professor Winick is co-editor of the American Psychological Association press book series, Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences.
He serves on the editorial boards of Lay & Human Behavior, and of Psychology, Public Policy & Law, and is a reviewer for other interdisciplinary law journals.
He is Director of the University of Miami School of Law's annual Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Psychology. He has served as legal consultant to the AALS section on Law and Medicine.
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Miami in 1974, Professor Winck served as New York City's Director of Court Mental Health Services and as General Counsel of the New York City Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services.
Professor Winick is co-founder (with Professor David Wexler) of the school of social enquiry known as therapeutic jurisprudence. Therapeutic jurisprudence is the study of law's healing potential. An interdisciplinary approach to legal scholarship that has a law reform agenda, therapeutic jurisprudence seeks to assess the therapeutic and counter-therapeutic consequences of law and how it is applied and to effect legal change designed to increase the former and diminish the latter.