B.E., Tulane University
LL.B., Tulane University School of Law
M.A., Ph.D., Tulane University

Psychiatry and Law
Torts
Evidence

Professor Slovenko was editor in chief of the Tulane Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif while in law school. His wide background has included serving as law clerk to Louisiana Supreme Court Justice E. Howard McCaleb, Fulbright Scholar in France, New Orleans senior assistant district attorney, practicing attorney, U.S. District Court Commissioner (for Judge J. Skelly Wright), residency in psychiatry and faculty appointments at Tulane, Kansas and the Menninger Foundation. He has been at Wayne State since 1969. His bibliography of more than 20 books and 200 articles ranges over a diverse field. He teaches Evidence, Torts and Psychiatry and Law. His book Psychiatry and Law (Boston 1973: Little, Brown) was awarded the Manfred Guttmacher Award of the American Psychiatric Association and was cited as "a monumental work." It was also the Book-of-the-Month selection of the Behavioral Science Book Club. His 1996 book, Psychiatry and Criminal Culpability (New York 1996: Wiley) was runner-up for the Guttmacher Award. He is editor of the American Series in Behavioral Science and Law, and he is a regular commentator in the Journal of Psychiatry and Law. He writes a weekly column in the Detroit Legal News. He has lectured in various countries including Australia, France, Israel, Japan, Russia (Soviet Union) and South Africa.

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  Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry (Brunner-Routledge) 2009
  
  

  "Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry" is a sweeping, up-to-date examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry. Unmatched in breadth and coverage, and thoroughly updated from the first edition, this comprehensive text and reference is an essential resource for psychiatry residents, law students and practitioners alike. Slovenko provides a critical exposition of the various practices and basic premises of the interplay between the two professions while also discussing topics such as: evidence in the judicial process; psychiatric expert testimony; competency to stand trial; criminal responsibility; diminished capacity; hospitalization of the mentally ill; psychiatric malpractice; undue familiarity; and the regulation of psychotherapy.

"Tarasoff Revisited," 30 Am. J. Forensic Psychiatry 57 (2009).

"Questionable Basis of an Expert's Opinion," 30 Am. J. Forensic Psychiatry 63 (2009).

"Sex Addiction," 30 Am. J. Forensic Psychiatry49 (2009).