John Kip Cornwell
Professor of Law
Professor Cornwell received his A.B., with honors, from Harvard University, his M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He served as a senior trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an adjunct professor at the National Law Center of George Washington University. In 1993, he received a Special Achievement Award from Attorney General Janet Reno for "sustained, superior performance" at the Justice Department
He has published in the areas of mental health law, criminal law and procedure, and federal civil rights law. In addition, he currently serves as the Director of New Jersey Institute of Law and Mental Health. He was the Student Bar Association's Professor of the Year in 1995-1996, 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2004-2005, and 2007-2008. He joined the Seton Hall Faculty in 1994. He was appointed Associate Dean in 2006.
Publications
Law Review Articles
A Constitutional Right to Community Treatment for Sexually Violent Predators following Civil Commitment, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1213 (2004)
A Constitutional Right to Community Treatment for Sexually Violent Predators following Civil Commitment, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1213 (2004)
Preventing Kids from Killing, 37 Hous. L.Rev. 21 (2000)
Protection not Punishment: The Permissible Civil Detention of Sexual Predators, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1293 (1996)
Confining Mentally Disordered “Super Criminals:” A Realignment of Rights in the Nineties, 33 Hous. L . Rev. 651 (1996)
Law Journal Article
Teaching Criminal Law, 48 St. Louis L. J. 1167 (2004)
Exposing the Myths Surrounding Preventive Outpatient Commitment for Individuals with Chronic Mental Illness, 9 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 209 (2003) (with Raymond Deeney)
The New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act: Analysis and Recommendations for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders in New Jersey, 24 Seton Hall Legisl. J. 1 (1999) (with John V. Jacobi & Philip. H. Witt)
Understanding the Role of the Police and Parens Patriae Powers in Involuntary Civil Commitment Before and After Hendricks, 4 Psychol., Pub. Pol’y & Law 1 (1998)
CRIPA: The Failure of Federal Intervention for Mentally Retarded People, 97 Yale L.J. 845 (1988)
Other Articles
The Right to Community Treatment for Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders, in The Sexual Predator, Civil Research Institute (2006) (Schlank, Anita, ed.)
Legislative Responses: Panel Critique, in Sexually Coercive Behavior: Understanding and Management, 989 Annals of the N.Y. Acad. of Sci. 355 (2003) (with Thomas Grisso)
Sex Offenders and the Supreme Court: The Significance of Kansas v. Hendricks, in Protecting Society from Sexually Dangerous Offenders: Law Justice and Therapy, American Psychological Ass’n, 2003 (2003) (Winick, Bruce J. & La Fond, John Q., eds.)
Text Book
The Glannon Guide to Criminal Procedure, Aspen Publishers (forthcoming 2009)