Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology Award

Daniel Shuman

Daniel W. Shuman, American Academy of Forensic Psychology Distinguished Career Contribution to Forensic Psychology recipient, 2005.

Daniel Shuman, Professor of Law, received his B.S. in 1969 from the University of Arizona and his J.D. .in 1972 from the University of Arizona. He is a Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University School of Law, an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence (1986) (winner of the 1988 American Psychiatric Association Manfred S. Guttmacher Award) and (2nd ed 1994); Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes: Balancing Legal, Psychological, and Moral Considerations (2000) (with McCall Smith); Conducting Insanity Defense Evaluations (2nd ed 2000) (with Rogers); Law, Mental Health, and Mental Disorder (with Sales 1996); Law and Mental Health Professionals: Texas (1990) and (2nd ed 1997; Doing Legal Research: A Guide for Social Scientists and Mental Health Professionals (1996) (with Morris and Sales); The Psychotherapist Patient Privilege (with Weiner 1987); and Predicting the Past: The Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Civil and Criminal Litigation (American Psychiatric Association Press, Inc. 2002) (with Robert Simon) -- and more than sixty articles and book chapters. He is member of the American Law Institute and former chair of the Association of American Law Schools sections on Law and Mental Disability, and Law and Medicine. Prior to joining the Faculty of the SMU School of Law he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona and a Legal Services attorney in Tucson, Arizona.