Jan C. Costello
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1073
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: jan.costello@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, summa cum laude, Yale College, Phi Beta
Kappa
MA, Yale University
JD, Yale Law School
During law school, Jan Costello served as a director of the Moot Court program and as a staff member of the Yale Law Journal. While earning her MA in American Studies, she was appointed for two years a Teaching Fellow in the Yale College Department of History. After graduation, she joined the Mental Patients Advocacy Project (MPAP) at Western Massachusetts Legal Services. While serving as a staff attorney with MPAP, she also taught for three years as an adjunct assistant professor in the Legal Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Costello next worked for five years as a staff attorney with the Youth Law Center of San Francisco, and taught Family Law as an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1983, and served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1987-1990.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Association of American Law Schools: Section on Law and Mental Disability (1983 to present; Section Chair 1989-90); Membership Review Committee (1998-2000)
Boards of Directors: Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (1987 to 2002, Chair, 2000 to 2002); Western Law Center for Disability Rights (1984-1999)
Memberships: International Society of Family Law (ISFL); International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH); National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC)
Faculty, UCLA Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program (1991 to present)
"Can or Should CAP be Applied to Child Research Subjects?: A Comment on Kim and Appelbaum, in Capacity to Consent: A Snapshot of Contemporary Legal and Clinical Issues," 24 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 479 (2006)
"'Wayward and Noncompliant' People With Mental Disabilities: What Advocates of Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Can Learn From the Juvenile Court Experience With Status Offense Jurisdiction," 9 Psychology, Public Policy & Law Journal 233 (2003)
"'The Trouble Is They're Growing, The Trouble Is They're Grown': Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Adolescents' Participation in Mental Health Care Decisions, Symposium on the Law of Mental Health," 29 Ohio Northern University Law Review ___ (2003)
“'Why Have Hearings for Kids If You’re Not Going to Listen?': A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approach to Mental Disability Proceedings for Minors, Symposium from the Second International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence," 71 University of Cincinnati Law Review 19 (2002)
“'And Who is My Neighbor?' Autonomy-Value, the Ethic of Care and Full Inclusion for People with Mental Disabilities," in The Just One Justices: The Role of Justice at the Heart of Catholic Higher Education, M.K. McCullough, Ed. (University of Scranton Press 2000)
“A Lawyer Means They Can’t Push Me Around: the Lawyer/Advocate’s Role in Representing Individuals With Mental Disabilities,” 11 The Journal of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - California 56 (2000), republished in Loyola Lawyer 4 (Spring 2000)
"The Law Professor as Student, or National Velvet, I’m Not," The Law Teacher (Spring 2000)
"Representing Children in Mental Disability Proceedings," 1 Journal of the Center for Children and the Courts 101 (1999)
"Making Kids Take Their Medicine: The Privacy and Due Process Rights of De Facto Competent Minors," 31 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 907 (April 1998)
Advanced Issues in Children and the Law, Children and the Law, Family Law, Marital Property, Legal Process, Mental Disability Law