Christopher Slobogin
Milton R. 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
View curriculum vitae (.pdf)
Links
- SSRN Page
- Criminal Justice Program
- Jurist blog: “The Future of Mass Dossiers”
- JOTWELL blog: “Toward Real Criminal Justice”
Research Interest(s)
Criminal law and procedure, mental health law, evidence law
Education
J.D., LL.M. University of Virginia
A.B. Princeton University
Biography
Chris Slobogin has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters on topics relating to criminal procedure, mental health law and evidence. Named director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program in 2009, Professor Slobogin is one of the 10 most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the nation, according to the Leiter Report. The book Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, which he co-authored 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 the American Bar Association's Task Force on Law Enforcement and Technology and its Task Force on the Insanity Defense, chair of the Florida Assessment Team for the ABA's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, and co-reporter for 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. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2008, Professor Slobogin held the Stephen C. O'Connell chair at the University of Florida's 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 law schools of the universities of Virginia, 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 more than 2,000 law review articles or treatises and more than 100 judicial opinions, including at the Supreme Court level. Professor Slobogin holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.
Representative Publications
Books
Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science, and Speculation in Adjudicating Culpability and Dangerousness (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Minding Justice: Laws the Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Articles
“Putting Desert in Its Place,” 65 Stanford Law Review 77 (2012)
"The Essential Fourth Amendment," 91 Texas Law Review 403 (2013)
“Sell’s Conundrums: The Right of Incompetent Defendants to Refuse Anti-Psychotic Medication,” 89 Washington University Law Review 435 (2012)
“American Criminal Justice Exposed: Review of William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice,” 31 Criminal Justice Ethics 42 (2012)
“An Original Approach to Originalism,” 125 Harvard Law Review Forum, Issue 2 (2012)
“Comparative Empiricism and Police Investigation,” 37 North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation 321 (2011)
"Is the Fourth Amendment Relevant in a Technological Age?", in Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change (Jeffrey Rosen & Benjamin Wittes, eds. 2011)
"Prevention as the Primary Goal of Sentencing: The Modern Case for Indeterminate Dispositions in Criminal Cases," 48 San Diego Law Review 1127 (2011)
"Citizens United and Corporate and Human Crime," 14 Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law 77 (2010)
"The Right to Voice Reprised," 40 Seton Hall Law Review 1647 (2010)
“Proportionality, Privacy, and Public Opinion: A Reply to Kerr and Swire,” 94 Minnesota Law Review 1588 (2010)
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