Professor James R. Elkins

[I'll be constructing this webpage of "introductory readings" over the next several days, as I too do the assignment. The page will, of course, be expanded (and perhaps rearranged) as I develop it.]

Introductory Readings

A History of Justice: Origins of Law and Psychiatry
Dr. Walter A. Bordenn, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Newsletter, April, 1999 [American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law]

[See: Michael L. Perlin, "Half-Wracked Prejudice Leaped Forth": Sanism, Pretextuality, and Why and How Mental Disability Law Developed as it Did, 10 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 3 (1999)]

Frequently Asked Questions About Forensic Psychiatry
Dr. William H. Reid, Forensic Psychiatric Consultant

Related Resources:

Back to Basics: Law and Mental Health
Dr. William H. Reid, J. Psych. Prac.

Bibliography [focusing on psychiatric expert testimony] [in-progress]:

Gregory Brown, The Case of John Salvi: Ethical Binds When Representing the Incompetent Defendant, 4 Suffolk J. Trial & App. Adv. 49 (1999)

James A. Cohen, The Attorney-Client Privilege, Ethical Rules, and the Impaired Criminal Defendant, 52 U. Miami L. Rev. 529 (1998)

Peter R. Dahl, Legal and Psychiatric Concepts and the Use of Psychiatric Evidence in Criminal Trials, 73 Calif. L. Rev. 411 (1985)

M. McCloskey et.al (eds), The Ethics of Expert Testimony, 10 Law & Human Behavior 1 (June, 1986) (special issue)

D. McCord, Syndromes, Profiles and other mental Exotica: A New Approach to the Admissibility of Nontraditional Psychological Evidence in Criminal Cases, 66 Oregon L. Rev. 19 (1987)

Ron Nichwolodoff, Expert Psychological Opinion Evidence in the Courts, 6 Health L.J. 279 (1998)

J. Robert Russell, Criminal Discovery and Psychological Defenses in West Virginia: "Squeezing a Lemon: or "Kicking a Dog," 99 W. Va L. Rev. 207 (1996)

C. Robert Showalter, Distinguishing Science from Pseudo-Science in Psychiatry: Expert Testimony in the Post-Daubert Era, 2 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 211 (1995)

Christopher Slobogin, Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata as a Case Study, 57 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 919 (2000)

________________, Psychiatric Evidence in Criminal Trials: To Junk or Not to Junk? 40 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1 (1998)

Christopher Slobogin & Amy Mashburn, The Criminal Defense Lawyer's Fiduciary Duty to Clients with Mental Disability, 68 Fordham L. Rev. 1581 (2000)

Jennifer Sparks, Admissibility of Expert Psychological Evidence in the Federal Courts, 27 Ariz. St. L.J. 1315 (1995)

Andrew E. Taslitz, Myself Alone: Individualizing Justice Through Psychological Character Evidence, 52 Md. L. Rev. 1 (1993)