Christopher Slobogin

Christopher Slobogin, JD, LLM, is the Milton Underwood Chair in Law and an affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Law School. He is the first and only law professor to receive Distinguished Contribution Awards from both the American Psychology–Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. Professor Slobogin has published over 200 works on mental health law and criminal justice, and is currently one of the five most cited criminal law professors in the country. He served as chair of the task force revising the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards of the American Bar Association (ABA) and as the Reporter for the ABA’s Task Force on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty and its Task Force on Criminal Responsibility.