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Tel: 215.898.2562
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: smorse@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Mental Health Law
- Criminal Law
Bio
Stephen Morse is a renowned expert in criminal and mental health law, whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law.
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Stephen Morse is a renowned expert in criminal and mental health law, whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law. Professionally trained in both law and psychology at Harvard, Morse has written for law reviews, journals of psychology and psychiatry and edited collections, and he has contributed numerous op-ed articles. Most recently, he has published Foundations of Criminal Law (Foundation Press, with Leo Katz and Michael S. Moore), and he is currently working on a book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control. Morse is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology; a past president of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (the American Psychology-Law Society); a recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology’s Distinguished Contribution Award; a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law (1988-1996); and a trustee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. (1995-present). Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 1988, Morse was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law (1988-); Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry (1991-); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1990-92)
USC - Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law (1982-88); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1979-80); Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1979-88); Professor of Psychology (1982-88); Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1977-79)
Visiting Professor - California Institute of Technology (Law and Social Science); Cardozo; Georgetown; Virginia
Trustee, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 1995-2004
Representative Publications
Moral and Legal Responsibility and the New Neuroscience, in NEUROETHICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: DEFINING THE ISSUES IN THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLICY 33 (J. Illes ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2006).
Brain Overclaim Syndrome and Criminal Responsibility: A Diagnostic Note, 3 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 397 (2006).
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Reason, Results and Criminal Responsibility, 2004 ILL. L. REV. 363 (2004).
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Diminished Rationality, Diminished Responsibility, 1 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 289 (2003).
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Involuntary Competence, 21 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 311 (2003).
Inevitable Mens Rea, 27 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 51 (2003).
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Uncontrollable Urges and Irrational People, 88 VA. L. REV. 1025 (2002).
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Deprivation and Desert, in W. Hefferman & J. Kleinig, eds., FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE 114. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Hooked on Hype: Addiction and Responsibility, 19 L. & PHIL. 3 (2000).
FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999; Foundation Press, 2000 (co-edited with L. Katz & M.S. Moore).
Crazy Reasons, 10 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 189 (1999).
Neither Desert Nor Disease, 5 LEGAL THEORY 265 (1999).
Excusing and The New Excuse Defenses: A Legal and Conceptual Review, in M. Tonry, ed., 23 CRIME & JUST. 329. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998.
Brain and Blame, 84 GEO. L.J. 527 (1996); reprinted in 1 SEMINARS IN CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY 222 (1996).
Culpability and Control, 142 U. PA. L. REV. 1587 (1994).
Excusing the Crazy: The Insanity Defense Reconsidered, 58 S. CAL. L. REV. 777 (1985).
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