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Stephen Morse

Contact Information

Phone
2158982562
Email

smorse@law.upenn.edu

Fax
2155732025

Stephen J. Morse

Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry; Associate Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society

Stephen J. Morse works on problems of individual responsibility and agency.

Morse has published numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters and has co-edited collections, including (with A. Roskies) A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience and (with L.Katz & M. Moore)  Foundations of Criminal Law. He was a contributing author (with L. Alexander and K. Ferzan) to Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law. He is working on a new book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control.

Morse was Co-Director of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. 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; a recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology’s Distinguished Contribution Award; a recipient of the American Psychiatric Association’s Isaac Ray Award for distinguished contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence; a recipient of the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award; a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law; and a trustee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.

Education

  • PhDHarvard1973
  • EdMHarvard1970
  • JDHarvard1970
  • ABTufts1966

Courses Taught

  • Criminal Law| Mental Health Law| Freedom & Responsibility| Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience: Mind, Brain and Society (co-taught in the College’s Pilot Program)