Associations and Honors
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS
Silvers-Rubinstein Distinguished Professor of Law (since 2009)
Director, Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center, University of Miami School of Law (since 2009)
Philippe Pinel Award, International Academy of Law and Mental Health (2009)
Member, Board of Editors, Psychiatry, Psychology & Law (since 2008)
Member, Board of Directors, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired, Inc.(since 2008)
Chair-elect, Association of American Law Schools Section on Balance in Legal Education (2008)
Board of Directors, Disability Independence Group (since 2006)
Honorary Distinguished Member, American Psychology-Law Society (2007)
Board Member, Disability Independence Group (since 2007)
Legal Director, Forensic Fellow Program, University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, (since 2005)University of Miami Provost’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, (2005)
University of Miami Provost’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2005)
Member, Disablity Independence Group (since 2005)
Member, Executive Board, Humanizing Legal Education Association (since 2004)
Research Affilliate, Rutgers University Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research (since 2004)
Good Will Ambassador Award, Foundation Fighting Blindness (2004)
University of Miami Vice President’s Award for Service, 2002-2003, for improving the quality of life in the Greater Miami Community
Alpha Epsilon Lambda, Beta Chapter (inducted 2002)
Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society (inducted 2002)
Miami-Dade County Award presented by Mayor Alex Pinellas for drafting and spearheading the successful effort to pass the Dade County Human Rights Ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual preference. (awarded January, 2002 at a ceremony commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Ordinance)
Recipient, Thurgood Marshall Award of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1998)
Director, University of Miami School of Law Institute on Law, Psychiatry and Psychology (since 1998)
Advisory Board, International Association of Collaborative Professionals (since 1999)
Editorial Board, FORENSIC ECHO (since 1998)
Co-editor, Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences, American Psychological Association Press book series (since 1996)
Legal Advisor and member of Editorial Board, Psychology, Public Policy and Law (since 1995)
Editorial Board, LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR (since 1986)
Reviewer, AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (since 1994)
Advisory Board, American Bar Association, COMMISSION ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY LAW NATIONAL BENCHBOOK OF PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COMPETENCY, DANGEROUSNESS, AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY (1994-1996)
Recipient, Scholar in Residence Award, University of Miami School of Law (1995-1996)
Board of Directors, Environmental Guardians Defense Committee (1994-1996)
Board of Governors, N.Y.U. LAW REVIEW Alumni Association (1987-1996)
Recipient, American Immigration Lawyers Association Human Rights Award (1992)
Consultant, American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Consent to Voluntary Hospitalization (1990-1992)
Lawyers Mediation Service (since 1990)
Board of Directors, International Academy of Law and Mental Health (1987-1989)
American Civil Liberties Union National Immigration and Alien Rights Project Task Force (1984-1988)
Litigation Advisory Committee, Haitian Refugee Center, Inc. (1983-1995)
Mental Disability Law Section, Association of American Law Schools (since 1974)
Advisory Committee, Florida Forensic Examiner Project (1986)
Florida Bar Mental Disability Law Committee (1980-1986)
Director, University of Miami School of Law Conference on Mental Health Law: Developments in the 1980’s (1984)
Dade County Bar Community Task Force on Jury Selection (1984)
Board of Contributors, Miami Herald (1980-1982)
Chairperson, Law and Medicine Section, Association of American Law Schools (1979-1980)
Consultant, Office of the Dade County State Attorney (1978-1983)
Mental Health Board of Dade and Monroe Counties (1979)
General Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (1977-1979)
Affiliated Scholar, American Bar Foundation (1976-1977)
Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Law Reform, American Bar Association (1972-1977)
Committee on Medicine and Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1973-1974)
Task Force on Court Mental Health Services, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (1973-1974)
Coordinator, New York City Inter-Agency Task Force on Children and the Law (1973-1974)
New York Civil Liberties Union Selective Service Law Panel (1969-1972)
Cooperating Attorney, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (1969-1972)
Bar Admissions: New York State (1968), U.S. Supreme Court (1973), U.S. Court of Appeals for Second (1970), Fifth (1977), Sixth (1981), and Eleventh (1982) Circuits, and numerous U.S. District Courts
Lectures and presentations to numerous academic, professional, and community associations and organizations at the global, national, and local level.
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