Publications

Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Clinical Law, Center for Practice

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Lin (Lynn) Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Joseph Biancalana
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Louis D. Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Barbara Black
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center

A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Paul L. Caron
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law

Jacob Katz Cogan
Professor of Law

    Books

  • Comparative Constitutional Law: Context and Cases (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2012) (co-author with Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa, Patrick Macklem, & Ingrid Wuerth)
  • New Approaches to the History of International Law (editor) (book manuscript in progress)
  • Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2010) (co-editor with Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Robert D. Sloane, & Siegfried Wiessner)
  • Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews

  • The BRICS and the Future of International Law (article manuscript in progress)
  • The 2011 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice, 106 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2012) 
  • The Idea of Fragmentation, 105 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (forthcoming 2011)
  • Book Review, 105 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2011) (reviewing Paul F. Diehl & Charlotte Ku, The Dynamics of International Law (2010))
  • The Regulatory Turn in International Law, 52 Harvard International Law Journal 321 (2011)
  • The 2010 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice, 105 American Journal of International Law 477 (2011)
  • Introduction to Looking to the Future, supra, at xiii (2010) (co-author with Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Robert D. Sloane, & Siegfried Wiessner) 
  • The 2009 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice, 104 American Journal of International Law 605 (2010)
  • National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law: A Reply to Eyal Benvenisti and George Downs, 20 European Journal of International Law 1013 (2009) (responding to Eyal Benvenisti & George W. Downs, National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law, 20 European Journal of International Law 59 (2009))
  • Book Review, 96 Journal of American History 844 (2009) (reviewing Elizabeth R. Varon, Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (2008))
  • Representation and Power in International Organization: The Operational Constitution and Its Critics, 103 American Journal of International Law 209 (2009)
  • Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Virginia Journal of International Law 411 (2008)
  • International Decision, Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Decisions on Requests of the United States of America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for Review, 101 American Journal of International Law 163 (2007)
  • Book Review, 100 American Journal of International Law 278 (2006) (reviewing Michael Barnett & Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (2004))
  • Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law, 31 Yale Journal of International Law 189 (2006)
  • International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale Journal of International Law 111 (2002)
  • Book Review, 20 Law and History Review 194 (2002) (reviewing Laura J. Scalia, America’s Jeffersonian Experiment: Remaking State Constitutions, 1820-1850 (1999))
  • Book Review, 88 Journal of American History 1074 (2001) (reviewing Maurice Baxter, Henry Clay the Lawyer (2000))
  • The Problem of Obtaining Evidence for International Criminal Courts, 22 Human Rights Quarterly 404 (2000)
  • Book Review, 107 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (1999) (reviewing The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed (Ronald Hoffman & Peter J. Albert eds., 1997))
  • Note, The Look Within: Property, Capacity, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century America, 107 Yale Law Journal 473 (1997)
  • 1846 Petition for Woman’s Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention, 22 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 427 (1997) (with Lori D. Ginzberg)
  • The Reynolds Affair and the Politics of Character, 16 Journal of the Early Republic 389 (1996)
  • Book Review, 53 William and Mary Quarterly 675 (1996) (reviewing Robert Rutland, James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836: An Encyclopedia (1996)); see also Communications, 54 William and Mary Quarterly 465 (1997) (replying to letter from Joyce Appleby)
  • Book Review, 104 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 513 (1996) (reviewing Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (1996))
  • Book Review, 27 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 332 (1996) (reviewing Jack P. Greene, Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History (1994))
  • Book Review, 63 Pennsylvania History 280 (1996) (reviewing Tony Freyer, Producers Versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America (1994))
  • A Continental Divide in American History, 112 New Jersey History 79 (1994) (reviewing Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (1993) and James Roger Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993))
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Margaret B. Drew
Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic

Thomas D. Eisele
Professor of Law

Mark A. Godsey
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Emily Ming-Sue Houh
Associate Dean of Faculty and Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts

Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Bert B. Lockwood, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

S. Elizabeth (Betsy) Malloy
Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law

Bradford C. Mank
James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law

Stephanie McMahon
Assistant Professor of Law

Darrell A.H. Miller
Assistant Professor of Law

Douglas Mossman
Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry

    Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

  • Commentary: Let's Think about Human Factors, Not Human Failings, 37 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 25 (2009)
  • Defensive Medicine: Can It Increase Your Malpractice Risk?, 8(12) Current Psychiatry 86 (2009)
  • The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009)
  • Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009) (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg)
  • Sex with Former Patients: OK after Retirement?, 8(8) Current Psychiatry 25 (2009)
  • Smoking Allowed: Is Hospital Policy a Liability Risk?, 8(5) Current Psychiatry 28 (2009)
  • Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), 32 Law & Hum. Behav. 279 (2008)
  • Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 340 (2008)
  • Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, Correctional Service of Canada, Sexual Homicide and Paraphilias: The Correctional Service of Canada’s Experts Forum 2007, 41 (A. J. R. Harris & C. A. Page, eds. 2008)
  • Divorce, Custody, and Parental Consent for Psychiatric Treatment, 7(8) Current Psychiatry 63 (2008) (with Christina G. Weston)
  • Evaluate Liability Risks in Prescribing, 7(4) Current Psychiatry 91 (2008)
  • Going Outside Your Area of Expertise: How Far Is Too Far?, 7(10) Current Psychiatry 53 (2008)
  • Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a Diagnostic "Gold Standard" (U. of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 08-23) (with Michael D. Bowen, David Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer)
  • Tips to Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, 7(2) Current Psychiatry 80 (2008)
  • Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Sarah Stringer & Marie Rueve)
  • Violence Risk: Is Clinical Judgment Enough?, 7(6) Current Psychiatry 66 (2008)
  • AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007)
  • Avoiding Errors about "Margins of Error", 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007) (with T. Sellke)
  • Lesson from Va. Tech: Focus on Treatment, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 29, 2007
  • Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007)
  • Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse: J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006)
  • Critique of Pure Risk Assessment, or Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006) (winning submission, 2008 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award)
  • Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, and Richard D. Sanders)
  • Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005)
  • How a Rabbi's Sermon Resolved My Tarasoff Conflict, 32 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 359 (2004)
  • Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms, 33 N.M. L. Rev. 255 (2003)
  • Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 Law & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003)
  • Psychiatry in the Courtroom, 150 Pub. Int. 22 (Winter 2003)
  • Unbuckling the "Chemical Straitjacket": The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002)
  • "A Fool for a Client": Print Portrayals of Forty-Nine Pro Se Criminal Defendants, 29 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 408 (2001) (with Neal W. Dunseith, Jr.)
  • Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: A Comparison of Five Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger)
  • Commentary: Assessing the Risk of Violence—Are "Accurate" Predictions Useful?, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 272 (2000)
  • Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Services 1528 (2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer)
  • Evaluating Violence Risk "By the Book": A Review of HCR-20: Assessing Risk for Violence, Version 2 and The Manual for the Sexual Violence Risk—20, 18 Behav. Sci. & L. 781 (2000)
  • Interpreting Clinical Evidence of Malingering: A Bayesian Perspective, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 293 (2000)
  • The Meaning of Malingering Data: Further Applications of Bayes's Theorem, 18 Behav. Sci. & L. 761 (2000)
  • "Hired Guns," "Whores," And "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute, 27 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999)
  • How Do Attorneys Choose Mental Health Experts? Findings from a Survey of Local Attorneys and Judges, 48(5) Dayton B. Briefs 5 (1999)
  • Malpractice Implications of Prescribing Antipsychotic Medications, 19 Directions in Psychiatry 311 (1999)
  • Open Trial of Olanzapine in Patients with Treatment-Refractory Psychoses, 19 J. Clin. Psychopharmacology 62 (1999) (with Richard D. Sanders)
  • Plotting ROC Curves: Giving Us Fits, 19 Med. Decis. Making 214 (1999)
  • Three-Way Rocs, 19 Medical Decision Making 78 (1999)
  • "Courtroom Whores"? Or, Why Do Attorneys Call Us? Findings from a Survey on Attorneys' Use of Mental Health Experts, 26 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 27 (1998) (with Marshall B. Kapp)
  • The Need for Continuing Legal Education on Mental Disability Law: A Survey Study of Local Attorneys and Judges, 48(4) Dayton B. Briefs 16 (1998)
  • Presenting and Challenging Mental Health Testimony: Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation, 47(3) Dayton B. Briefs 20 (1998) (with Solomon M. Fulero)
  • Attorneys' and Judges' Needs for Continuing Legal Education on Mental Disability Law: Findings from a Survey, 25 J. Psychiatry & L. 327 (1997) (with Marshall B. Kapp)
  • A Decision Analysis Approach to Neuroleptic Dosing: Insights from a Mathematical Model, 58 J. Clinical Psychiatry 66 (1997)
  • Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness, and the Myth of Psychiatric Abandonment: A Structural Anthropology Perspective, 44(1) Social Sci. & Medicine 71 (1997)
  • Malpractice and the Psychiatrist: A Primer for Residents, 21 Acad. Psychiatry 11 (1997) (with Marshall B. Kapp)
  • Sex on the Wards: Conundra for Clinicians, 25 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 441 (1997) (with Deborah A. Dorfman and Michael L. Perlin)
  • Are You Liable for Your Patients' Sexual Behavior?, Vol. V, No. 5, Psychiatric Malpractice Risk Mgmt. (1996)
  • Evaluation and Restoration of Competence for Execution: A Defense of Psychiatric Participation, 21 AAPL Newsl. 60 (1996)
  • Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a "Capacimeter", 2(1) Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 73 (1996) (with Marshall B. Kapp)
  • Presenting Evidence of Malingering to Courts: Insights from Decision Theory, 14 Behav. Sci. & L. 271 (1996) (with Kathleen J. Hart)
  • VA Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996)
  • Dangerousness Decisions: An Essay on the Mathematics of Clinical Violence Predictions and Involuntary Hospitalization, 2 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 95 (1995)
  • Dénouement of an Execution Competency Case: Is Perry Pyrrhic?, 23 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 269 (1995)
  • Resampling Techniques in the Analysis of Non-Binormal Rocs, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995)
  • Violence Prediction, Workplace Violence, and the Mental Health Expert, 47 Consulting Psychol. J. Prac. & Res. 223 (1995)
  • Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994)
  • At the VA, It Pays to Be Sick, 114 Pub. Int. 35 (Winter 1994)
  • Further Comments on Portraying the Accuracy of Violence Predictions, 18 Law & Hum. Behav. 587 (1994)
  • Is Forensic Testimony Fundamentally Immoral?, 17 Int'l J.L. & Psychiatry 347 (1994)
  • How Bad Is Civil Commitment? A Study of Attitudes toward Violence and Involuntary Hospitalization, 21 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 181 (1993) (with Kathleen J. Hart)
  • Balancing Risks and Benefits: Another Approach to Optimizing Diagnostic Tests, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 331 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Comparing and Optimizing Diagnostic Tests: An Information-Theoretical Approach, 12 Med. Decis. Making 179 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Comparing Diagnostic Tests Using Information Theory: The "INFO-ROC Technique", 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 214 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Diagnostic Tests and Information Theory, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 95 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • The Psychiatrist and Execution Competency: Fording Murky Ethical Waters, 43 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1 (1992)
  • Psychiatry and the Homeless Mentally Ill: A Reply to Dr. Lamb, 149 Am. J. Psychiatry 951 (1992) (with Michael L. Perlin)
  • "Biological Markers" and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Risk-Benefit Balancing Using ROC Analysis, 27 Biol. Psychiatry 811 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Neuropsychiatric Decision-Making: Designing Non-Binary Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 197 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Neuropsychiatric Decision Making: The Role of Prevalence in Diagnostic Testing, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 84 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • News Media Promote Prejudice about Mental Illness, The MHAC Advocate 3 (Winter 1991)
  • Potential HIV Exposure in Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Adolescent Girls, 148 Am. J. Psychiatry 528 (1991) (with Dewleen G. Baker)
  • Predicting Length of Childhood Psychiatric Hospitalization: An "Ecological" Approach, 17 Quality Rev. Bull. 269 (1991) (with Dewleen G. Baker and D. A. Songer)
  • ROC Curves and the Binormal Assumption, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 436 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Do Serum Dexamethasone Levels Improve the DST?, 20 J. Affective Disorders 13 (1990) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Improving State-Funded Child Psychiatric Care: Reducing Protracted Hospitalization through Changes in Treatment Planning, 16 Quality Rev. Bull. 20 (1990) (with Dewleen G. Baker, E. Johnson, and K. Macaulay)
  • The INFO-ROC Technique: A Method for Comparing and Optimizing Inspection Systems, 9A Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation 601 (New York, Plenum Press, 1990) (with Larry McFeeters and Eugene Somoza)
  • Introduction to Neuropsychiatric Decision Making: Binary Diagnostic Tests, 2 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 297 (1990) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Optimizing REM Latency as a Diagnostic Test for Depression Using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis and Information Theory, 26 Biological Psychiatry 990 (1990) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Assessing Improvements in the Dexamethasone Suppression Test Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 25 Biological Psychiatry 159 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Evaluation and Optimization of Diagnostic Tests Using ROC Analysis and Information Theory, 24 Int'l J. of Biomedical Computing 153 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza and L. Soutullo-Esperon)
  • Maximizing Diagnostic Information from the Dexamethasone Suppression Test: An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza)
  • Child Custody and the Mental Health Professional, Charleston B. Ass'n Newsl. (Spring 1988)
  • The Dexamethasone Suppression Test and Depression: Approaches to the Use of a Laboratory Test in Psychiatry, 6(1) Neurologic Clinics 21 (1988) (with George W. Arana) and 7(1) Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics 21 (1988)
  • Recovery for Psychological Damages: A Discussion of South Carolina Case Law and Post-Traumatic Syndromes, Charleston B. Ass'n Newsl. (Winter 1988)
  • United States v. Lyons: Toward a New Conception of Legal Insanity, 16(1) Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 49 (1988)
  • Assessing and Restoring Competency to be Executed: Should Psychiatrists Participate?, 5 Behav. Sci. & L. 397 (1987)

Ronna Greff Schneider
Professor of Law

Rachel Jay Smith
Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing

Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law

Gary W. Spring
Visiting Associate Professor of Law

Adam N. Steinman
Associate Professor of Law

Joseph P. Tomain
Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law

Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law