Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Appellate Arena: Judicial Notice and the Potential of the Legislative Fact Remand

This Article begins with a modest objective and ends with an ambitious one. First, it asserts that appellate courts are an appropriate forum for considering the therapeutic impact of the law strand of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) scholarship. TJ\u27s character as a field of social inquiry is especially suited to the appellate courts\u27 task of formulating new rules of law and choosing among competing policy objectives when resolving opposing normative principles