Prof. Alexander D. Brooks is a distinguished scholar of mental health law. He currently holds the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professorship of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, for the academic year 1989–1990. Prof. Brooks is the Justice Joseph Weintraub Professor Emeritus of Law at the Rutgers Law School in Newark, NJ. His well-known text,Law, Psychiatry and the Mental Health System, was presented the Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association in 1975. He has lectured and presented workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad and has written extensively on a variety of mental health law issues.