International trends in mental health laws
By: editor, Bernadette McSherry.
Contributors: McSherry, Bernadette.; La Trobe University.
Series: Law in context -- v. 26, no. 2; Law in context (Bundoora, Vic.) -- v. 26, no. 2.
Publisher: Federation Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Annandale, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781862877214
Subjects: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol -- (2007); Mental health laws; Mentally ill -- Civil rights; Mentally ill -- Care; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
Notes: "Edited from La Trobe University."

"Ensuring that mental health laws protect human rights in both theory and practice is an ongoing challenge. This issue explores the effect that the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international trends in human rights may have on domestic mental health laws" -- Backcover.

Includes bibliographical references.