Cincinnati, OH—Glenn M. Weaver, M.D., a long-time member of the adjunct faculty at The University of Cincinnati College of Law and founder of the Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry, died October 25, 2007 at age 86.  Dr. Weaver maintained an active psychiatric practice and continued to teach at the College of Law until just a few weeks before his death.

“Dr. Glenn Weaver helped transform the College of Law,” said University of Cincinnati College of Law Dean Lou Bilionis. “Glenn’s vision for the Institute that bears his name, his drive to see it succeed, and his passion for work at the intersection of law and psychiatry were inspiring.  The evidence of Glenn's insight and generosity can be found inside and outside the classroom, in our conferences and lectures and the scholarly publications produced by our faculty and students. We have lost an engaged and engaging colleague, and a dear friend."

Funeral services were held on October 30, 2007 at the Gwen Mooney Funeral Home, 4389 Spring Grove Ave.

Dr. Weaver was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia.  He received his BS degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1943 and his MD from UC’s College of Medicine in 1945. After completing an internship at St. Louis City Hospital, he served as Captain in the US Army Medical Corps in Germany during the military occupation that followed World War II.  He returned to Cincinnati for his psychiatry residency, training at Cincinnati General Hospital, Longview State Hospital, and Christ Hospital.

After completing his residency, Dr. Weaver practiced clinical psychiatry in Cincinnati for the next 55 years.  For more than 20 years, he served as an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC’s College of Medicine. He later became Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Coordinator of Teaching and Psychiatry at The Christ Hospital. In addition, he provided testimony as an expert in hundreds of trials and other legal proceedings in Southwest Ohio and across the United States.

Dr. Weaver’s deep interest in the interaction between law and psychiatry led him to spend countless hours promoting a greater understanding of the ways in which these two areas intersect. A specialist in the field of forensic psychiatry since its development in the 1950s, he became a charter member of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He also served as president of the Cincinnati Society of Psychiatry and the Cincinnati Society of Neurology and Psychiatry.  He was a member of the American Academy of Legal Medicine, the American Society of Law and Medicine, the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and the American College of Legal Medicine.  In addition to treating outpatients and inpatients, Dr. Weaver served as a consultant and special examiner for many local courts and agencies. In 1984, he became one of the first medical professionals in the region to be board certified in forensic psychiatry.

In 1986, Dr. Weaver began teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the College of Law.  In 1998 he founded The Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry, which is dedicated to help students with special interests in mental health law and psychiatry to develop those interests and to enhance their knowledge about the importance of applying psychiatric understanding to legal issues. The Institute’s overarching mission is to provide law students and practicing attorneys with opportunities to learn more about how psychiatry contributes to the resolution of very diverse legal issues, including criminal, civil, correctional, or legislative matters, along with social policy that affects mental health and legal concerns.

Always interested in advancing his own knowledge about the law, Dr .Weaver could often be found taking classes alongside students—learning about criminal law, torts, evidence, and procedure. UC law students who took Dr. Weaver’s course often had the startling experience of seeing that one of their instructors was also their classmate!

Dr. Weaver was active in neighborhood and community organizations, which reflected his belief that professional acclaim and personal achievements are inconsequential if the fruits of those achievements are not used to enlighten society and improve the human condition. This belief not only motivated his service, but also underlined his vision for the Institute.

Dr. Weaver will be greatly missed by his colleagues and fellow students at the College of Law.  We will remember him as a thoughtful and ever-curious clinician, a dedicated teacher, an extremely generous gentleman, an avid consumer and admirer of scholarship in science and the law, and as a superb exemplar of life-long learning.