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(No. 36) (based on number of times cited by articles in the past ten years, number of times cited by cases, and number of times accessed)

Hein Online Top Law Scholars, 2016

2013-2017 (No. 3), according to Brian Leiter

Among Most Cited Criminal Law & Procedure Professors

Hartman Division, 2018-19 (awarded to best small course professor at Vanderbilt University Law School)

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Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

Risks of compulsory genetic databases—Response

The use of statistics in criminal cases: An introduction

A Defense of Modern Risk-Based Sentencing

"Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in legal proceedings. Presented are clinical and legal concepts and evidence-based assessment procedures pertaining to criminal and civil..."

uveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice (American Psychology-Law Society Series)

Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Fourth Edition: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers

Slobogin has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters on topics relating to criminal law and procedure, mental health law and evidence. Named director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program in 2009, Slobogin is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country over the past five years, according to the Leiter Report, and one of the top 50 most cited law professors overall from 2005-2015, according to Hein Online. 

Slobogin has served as reporter for three American Bar Association task forces (on Law Enforcement and Technology; the Insanity Defense; and Mental Disability and the Death Penalty) and as chair of both the ABA’s task force charged with revising the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards and the ABA’s Florida Assessment team for the Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project. He is currently an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Police Investigation Project. In recognition for his work in mental health law, in 2016 Slobogin received both the American Board of Forensic Psychology's Distinguished Contribution Award and the American Psychology-Law Society’s Distinguished Contribution of Psychology and Law Award; only a total of five law professors have received either of these awards in their 30-year history, and none has received both awards. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Slobogin held the Stephen C. O'Connell chair at the University of Florida's Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, where he was the Edwin A. Heafey Visiting Scholar, as well as at Hastings, Southern California and Virginia law schools and at the University of Frankfurt Law School in Germany, the Montpellier Law School in France, and the University of Kiev, Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. 

Slobogin has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Today Show, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets, and has been cited in almost 5,000 law review articles and treatises and more than 200 judicial opinions, including three U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Slobogin holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.

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Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law

Chris Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law and Director of Vanderbilt's Criminal Justice Program, is available for commentary and analysis on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Chris is an expert in criminal law and procedure, mental health law and evidence. He is the author of more than 100 articles, books and chapters and 200 judicial opinions, including three U.S. Supreme Court decisions. He has also served on the American Law Institute's Principles of Police Investigation Project, which focuses on the legal issues related to police procedures.


Criminal law expert on Derek Chauvin trial

Christopher Slobogin presents Introductory Remarks for the Neuroscience and Juvenile Justice panel at the Future of Law and Neuroscience conference on April 27, 2013 in Chicago, IL. Professor Slobogin is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law, Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt University Law School.  The conference was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and co-sponsored by the American Bar Association, Vanderbilt Law School, and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.  

Learn more:  www.lawneuro.org


Christopher Slobogin presents Intro Remarks - Neuroscience &amp; Juvenile Justice panel. Chicago, 2013

University of Georgia School of Law Assistant Professor of Law Sandra G. Mayson speaks with Vanderbilt Law's Professor Christopher Slobogin, prior to his faculty colloquium talk on September 9, 2018, regarding policing in a technological age. Slobogin’s work on modern search tactics using technology intersects with Professor Mayson’s work on risk assessment and restraints on liberty.  Professor Slobogin ultimately urges reconsidering the definition of "search" for Fourth Amendment purposes, drawing support from recent case law.  

For more information about speakers including related articles and books visit: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/speakersidebar/
Mayson's profile at: http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/sandra-g-mayson
Mayson's recent article in the Yale Law Journal: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/dangerous-defendants
And Slobogin's profile at: https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/christopher-slobogin

Episode 1: Sandra Mayson &amp; Christopher Slobogin

Christopher Slobogin presents Brain Dysfunction, Psychological Syndromes, and the Law:  Application of the Rules of Evidence at the Colloquium for Federal Judges on Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice on February 6 -- 7, 2014 at Vanderbilt Law School.  Professor Slobogin is the Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Criminal Justice program at Vanderbilt Law School. The colloquium was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and co-sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vanderbilt Law School, and the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.

Description and Learning Objectives: This session provides an introduction to the relationship of frontal lobe disorders and criminal behavior. It will place brain disorders in context with psychological syndromes, with particular focus on the ways in which both are being used by criminal defendants. Following this session, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the psychological syndromes introduced by criminal defendants at guilt and sentencing phases that are most often associated with neurological or genetic abnormality, and how those syndromes are received by courts.

• Discuss the challenges of reasoning from group scientific data to individualized legal decision making, with reference to the research of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience to address this "G2i" challenge.

Learn more:  www.lawneuro.org


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