Rate My Professor Mark Botts

Mark Botts is an associate professor of public law and government in the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on Law with a specialization in mental health law. He earned a B.A. from Albion College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1990. Prior to joining the School of Government in 1992, he served judicial clerkships with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Botts provides training, consulting, and publications for mental health professionals, consumers of services and their family members, employees and administrators of public mental health agencies, judicial officials, law enforcement officers, county commissioners, mental health authority board members, and other public and private officials responsible for mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services in North Carolina. His expertise covers civil commitment, confidentiality of mental health records, client rights, psychotherapist liability, governance, finance, and administration of public mental health services.