Can (Should) Algorithms Be Used to Reduce Incarceration in the United States?
Chris Slobogin is the the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law and director of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt University. He has authored more than 200 articles, books, and chapters on topics relating to criminal law and procedure, mental health law and evidence, and is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country over the past five years, according to the Leiter Report.
His work has been published by Cambridge, Chicago, Harvard and Oxford university presses and in journals such as the Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. In recognition for his work in mental health law, in 2016 Slobogin received both the American Board of Forensic Psychology's Distinguished Contribution Award and the American Psychology-Law Society’s Distinguished Contribution of Psychology and Law Award; only a total of five law professors have received either of these awards in their 30-year history, and Slobogin is the only to receive both awards. Slobogin has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Today Show, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets, and has been cited in almost 5,000 law review articles and treatises and more than 200 judicial opinions, including five U.S. Supreme Court decisions. He holds a secondary appointment as a professor in Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.