Phone: (434) 924-3209

E-mail: rbonnie@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): Psychiatry, criminal law, mental health and drug law, public health law, bioethics, human rights and psychiatry, death penalty, aging and the law, insanity and competency

All Courses: Law & Ethics of Psychiatric Care, Law & Ethics in Neurological Care, Criminal Law, Germs, Guns, and Lead: Public Health Ethics and Law, Psychiatry and Criminal Law, Community Mental Health Law/Ethics, Tobacco Policy Research, Aging and the Law

Current Course(s): Criminal Law (C,F), Legal And Moral Reason In Public, Germs, Guns, And Lead: Public Health Law And Policy

In the media:

• "Tech Massacre Sparks Debate Over Fees" (Style Weekly (Richmond), 08/20/2008)
• "City Schools Study Random Drug Tests" (Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, VA), 06/24/2008)
• "Supreme Court Rules in Sanity Case" (National Public Radio, 06/19/2008)
• "Colleges Put out Safety Nets" (USA Today, 04/16/2008)
• "Virginia Tech Served as Warning on Campus Privacy" (Chicago Tribune, 04/16/2008)
• "Must-have Help" (Daily Press (Newport News), 04/10/2008)
• "Predicting and Preventing Campus Violence" (Inside Higher Ed.com, 04/07/2008)
• "Reforms Spark Some Anxiety" (The Roanoke Times, 03/23/2008)
• "Caught in an Arms Race, Virginians Pack More guns" (The Virginian-Pilot, 03/05/2008)
• "UVA Institute Finds Lessons in Tech Shootings " (C-Ville Weekly, 02/05/2008)
• "UVA Doctors Explore Mental Health Treatment and Lawmakers' Role" (WVIR-TV NBC29, 01/30/2008)
• "Understanding Mental Health Reform" (The Daily Progress, 01/06/2008)
• "Kaine to Overhaul Mental Health System" (The Washington Post, 12/14/2007)
• "Mental Health Funding Sought" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12/14/2007)
• "Kaine Budgets Money for Pre-K, Mental-Health Plans" (Richmond Times Dispatch, 12/05/2007)
• "Virginia Tech Victims' Families Express Frustration With Gun Laws" (WSLS-TV NewsChannel10, 12/04/2007)
• "Mental Health Panel's Agenda for '08 Is Short" (Virginia Lawyer's Weekly, 11/26/2007)
• "Mental Health Reforms Unveiled / Panel's Changes Draw Warning from Legislator" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/17/2007)
• "A UVA Professor Will Discuss Mental Health Issues with Senior Lawmakers" (WINA 1070 AM, 11/13/2007)
• "Va.'s McDonnell, ABA Differ on Death Penalty / The Lawyers Group Wants a Moratorium on U.S. Executions" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10/30/2007)
• "UVa Bestows Its Highest Honor" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 10/27/2007)
• "FDA Chief Assails Tobacco Bill / Funding, Effect on Agency Mission Among Concerns Stated by von Eschenbach" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10/04/2007)
• “FDA No Tobacco Regulator, Chief Says” (Louisville Courier-Journal, 10/04/2007)
• "A Host of Trouble / More Parents are Being Held Criminally Liable for Their Teens' Drinking Parties" (U.S. News and World Report, 09/29/2007)
• "No Butts About It" (RedOrbit , 08/30/2007)
• "Nowak Plans to Use Insanity Defense/Experts Say Move by Former Astronaut Is Risky" (Florida Today, 08/29/2007)
• "New Measures Needed to Stamp Out U.S. Smoking Rates, IoM Report Says" (Nation's Health, 08/10/2007)
• "Mind Games: Virginia Mental-Health System Under the Microscope" (The New Dominion, 08/07/2007)
• "Safety Trumps Privacy in Sharing Information About Troubled Students, Panel Is Told" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/27/2007)
• "Tech's Lessons May Fix Flaws" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 07/23/2007)
• "Virginia Tech Panel Hears Views on How College Officials Deal With Troubled Students" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/19/2007)
• "Tech Panel Holds Last Public Meeting" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 07/19/2007)
• "An 'Irrefutable' Need/U.Va. Professor, Others Say Rules, Priorities Must Change in Wake of April's Massacre" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 07/19/2007)
• "The Virginia Tech Reckoning / Can a Blue-ribbon Panel Make Sense of the Cho Massacre?" (Slate, 07/18/2007)
• "Mental Health Worth Studying, Too/Forum Speaker Urges College Students to Face Issue Head-on" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 06/26/2007)
• "The Miller Center Hosts an Event Dealing with Mental Health Issues" (WINA 1070 AM, 06/25/2007)
• "Cho Case Shows Flaws in System, Court Panel Says/Study Is Accelerated After Va. Tech" (Washington Post, 06/23/2007)
• "Mental Health at a Loss for Money" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 06/23/2007)
• "Va. Reviews Mental Health Reforms" (The Washington Post, 06/17/2007)
• "Tobacco and Nicotine Are Overdue for FDA Control, Given Addiction" (Wilmington News Journal, 05/30/2007)