Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Christopher Slobogin
Professor of Law and Stephen C. O'Connell Chair, Associate Director of Center on Children and Families, and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry
Levin College of Law
1982
Degrees earned:
LL.M., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Virginia
A.B., Princeton University
Professor Christopher Slobogin’s work on mental health law, criminal procedure, and evidence law continues to be referenced in numerous law review articles and judicial decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court opinion. A prolific author, he recently published Minding Justice: Laws that Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty (Harvard University Press) and Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science and Speculation in Assessing Culpability and Dangerousness (Oxford University Press). He will soon publish Virtual Searches: Government Surveillance and What to Do about It (University of Chicago Press). He has been a visiting professor at a number of law schools, including the University of Southern California, Hastings (2005) and Stanford Law School (2006-07). Professor Slobogin has been particularly active in American Bar Association work, serving as reporter for the ABA’s Task Force on the Insanity Defense, chair of the Florida Assessment Team for the ABA’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, and drafter of proposed ABA standards dealing with mental disability and the death penalty.
