Dangerousness as a Criterion for Confinement

Footnotes

• ↵* Alan M. Dershowitz, LL.B., co-author with Jay Katz and Joseph Goldstein of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and the Law, is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale University Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

  Professor Dershowitz has served as fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and has written several articles on the subject of forensic psychiatry, most recently “Abolishing the Insanity Defense: The Most Significant Feature of the Administration's Proposed Criminal Code—An Essay.”