Faculty & Staff
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Christopher
Slobogin Stephen C. O'Connell Chair, Professor of Law Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry Associate Director, Center on Children and the Law Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: slobogin@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0942 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Brief Bio
Christopher Slobogin, B.A., J.D., LL.M., occupies the Stephen C. O’Connell chair at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University, and his law degrees at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has taught at a number of law schools besides the Levin College of Law, including Stanford Law School, the University of Virginia, the University of Southern California, Hastings, and the University of Kiev, Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He routinely participates in continuing education programs, and has received two teaching awards. He has authored or co-authored over 70 articles, books and chapters on mental health law, criminal procedure and evidence law. He recently published Minding Justice: Laws that Deprive People with Mental Disability of Life and Liberty, with Harvard University Press, and Proving the Unprovable: The Role of Law, Science and Speculation in Assessing Culpability and Dangerousness with Oxford University Press, and soon will publish Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, with University of Chicago Press. He has been particularly active in American Bar Association work, serving as Reporter for the ABA’s Task Force on Law Enforcement and Technology and for the ABA’s Task Force on the Insanity Defense, as well as 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. 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 1000 law review articles and close to100 judicial opinions, including three Supreme Court decisions.