Vanderbilt University Law School
Christopher Slobogin
Milton Underwood Chair in Law, Professor of Psychiatry Director, Criminal Justice Program
Voice: 615-343-2059
Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: christopher.slobogin@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 288A
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Research Interest(s)
Criminal law and procedure, mental health law, evidence law
Education
LL.M., J.D. University of Virginia
A.B. Princeton University
Biography
An expert in criminal procedure, mental health law and evidence law, Christopher Slobogin has authored or co-authored more than 70 articles, books and chapters on these topics. Director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program, he is one of the 20 most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country, according to the Leiter Report. The book Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, which he co-authors with another lawyer and two psychologists, is considered the standard-bearer in forensic mental health; in recognition for his work in that field, he was named an Honorary Distinguished Member of the American Psychology-Law Society in 2008. Professor Slobogin has also served as reporter for both the American Bar Association's Task Force on Law Enforcement and Technology and its Task Force on the Insanity Defense, as well as chair of the Florida Assessment Team for the ABA's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project. In addition, he helped draft standards dealing with mental disability and the death penalty that have been adopted by the ABA, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Professor Slobogin joined Vanderbilt's faculty in 2008, having previously held the Stephen C. O'Connell chair at the University of Florida's Fredric G. Levin College of Law. Over the course of his career, he has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, where he was the Edwin A. Heafey Visiting Scholar, as well as at the Universities of Virginia, Nebraska, Southern California and California – Hastings. He has also taught at the University of Frankfurt Law School in Germany and the University of Kiev, Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Today Show, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets, and has been cited in over 1,200 law review articles and over 100 judicial opinions, including at the Supreme Court level. Professor Slobogin has a secondary appointment as Professor in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.
Representative Publications
Books
Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Minding Justice: Laws the Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science, and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Articles
"Justice Ginsburg’s Gradualism in Criminal Procedure,” Ohio State Law Journal (forthcoming, 2009)
“Juvenile Justice: The Fourth Option,” Iowa Law Review (forthcoming, 2009) (with Mark Fondacaro)
“The Perils of the Fight Against Cognitive Illiberalism,”121 Harvard Law Review Forum Issue 3 (2009) (response to Dan Kahan, et al., “The Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism,”122 Harvard Law Review 838 (2009)
"Government Data Mining and the Fourth Amendment, " 75 University of Chicago Law Review 317-41 (2008) (symposium)
Lying and Confessing," 39 Texas Tech Law Review 1275-1292 (2007) (symposium)
“The Civilization of the Criminal Law,” 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 121 (2005)
"The Integrationist Alternative to the Insanity Defense: Reflections on the Exculpatory Scope of Mental Illness in the Wake of the Andrea Yates Case," 30 American Journal of Criminal Law 315-341 (2004)
"A Jurisprudence of Dangerousness," 98 Northwestern University Law Review 1-62 (2003)
Working Papers
“Proportionality, Privacy, and Public Opinion: A Reply to Kerr and Swire,” Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming, 2010)
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