USC.edu

Elyn Saks

Distinguished Professor and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Psychology
Email esaks@law.usc.edu Office LAW 418 Office Phone (213) 740-7572

Education

  • M.Litt. Philosophy, Oxford University
  • M.A. , Oxford University
  • B.A. , Vanderbilt University
  • J.D. , Yale University

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, 01/01/2003 –
    • Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psycholody, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, , 01/01/1998 –
    • Clinical Associate, Los Angeles Psschoanalytic Society and Institute, 01/01/1995 –
    • Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, , 01/01/1994 – 01/01/1998
    • Associate Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, , 01/01/1993 – 01/01/1994
    • Associate Professor, , 01/01/1991 – 01/01/1993
    • Assistant Professor, USC Law School, 01/01/1989 – 01/01/1991
    • Instructor, University of Bridgeport School of Law, 01/01/1987 – 01/01/1989
    • Staff Attorney, Connecticut Legal Services at Bridgeport, 01/01/1986 – 01/01/1987

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Professor Saks specializes in mental health law, criminal law, and family law; she is being trained as a psychoanalyst. Her recent publications include Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (with Stephen Behnke), Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis and “Competency to Decide on Treatment and Research: MacArthur and Beyond” (with Stephen H. Behnke). Prior to joining the faculty, she practiced family law with Connecticut Legal Services.