Covers the nature of mental illness, mental retardation and other mental disabilities; the provision of treatment and services for mental disabilities: financing, regulation, and administration; involuntary hospitalization and treatment; the right to treatment and services; incompetence and substitute decision-making mechanisms; informed consent; confidentiality, privacy, privilege and the duty to warn; mental disability and the criminal justice system; lawyering and mental disabilities; ethical and practical issues; change and mental disability systems; and the efficacy of litigation as a change agent. This course will be co-taught by a forensic psychiatrist.