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Tel: 215.898.2562
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: smorse@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Mental Health Law
Bio
Stephen J. Morse is an expert in criminal and mental health law whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law.
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Stephen J. Morse is an expert in criminal and mental health law whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law. Educated in law and psychology at Harvard, Morse has written for law reviews, journals of psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy, and he has edited collections, including (with Adina Roskies) the MacArthur Primer on Law and Neuroscience (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and (with Leo Katz and Michael S. Moore) Foundations of Criminal Law (Foundation Press, 2000). He was a contributing author (with Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan) to Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009),and is working on a new book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control. Morse was Co-Director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project and he co-directed the Project’s Research Network on Criminal Responsibility and Prediction. 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).
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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
Genetics and Criminal Responsibility, 15 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 378 (2011).
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Mental Disorder and Criminal Law, 101 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 885 (2011).
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Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience, LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, 13 CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES 529 (Michael Freeman, ed., 2011).
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Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, in GENE INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 207 (Kenneth A. Dodge & Michael Rutter, eds., Guilford Press, 2011).
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An Accurate Diagnosis, But Is There a Cure?: An Appreciation of The Role of Science in Law by Robin Feldman, 3 HASTINGS SCI. & TECH. L.J. 157 (2011) (book review).
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Avoiding Irrational NeuroLaw Exuberance: A Plea for Neuromodesty, 62 MERCER L. REV. 837 (2011).
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Against Control Tests for Criminal Responsibility, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Paul H. Robinson et al., eds., 2009).
Addiction and Criminal Responsibility, in ADDICTION AND RESPONSIBILITY 159 (Jeffrey Poland & George Graham eds., 2011)
CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (2009) (contributing author, with Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan).
Determinism and the Death of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges to Responsibility from Neuroscience, 9 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 1 (2008).
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The Ethics of Forensic Practice: Reclaiming the Wasteland, 36 J. AM. ACAD. PSYCHIATRY & L. 206 (2008).
Thoroughly Modern: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen on Responsibility, 5 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 505 (2008).
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The Uneasy Entente Between Legal Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona, 97 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1071 (2007).
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The Non-Problem of Free Will in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 25 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 203 (2007).
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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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Addiction, Genetics and Criminal Responsibility, 69 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 165 (Winter/Spg 2006)
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The Jurisprudence of Craziness, in THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 225 (F. Parisi and V.L. Smith eds., Stanford Univ. Press 2005).
Reason, Results and Criminal Responsibility, 2004 ILL. L. REV. 363 (2004).
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Inevitable Mens Rea, 27 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 51 (2003).
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Involuntary Competence, 21 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 311 (2003).
Diminished Rationality, Diminished Responsibility, 1 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 289 (2003).
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Uncontrollable Urges and Irrational People, 88 VA. L. REV. 1025 (2002).
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FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999; Foundation Press, 2000 (co-edited with L. Katz & M.S. Moore).
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.
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