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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. |
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Publications |
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Law Review Articles
The Glannon Guide to Criminal Procedure (Aspen Publishers)
(forthcoming 2009).
The Right to Community Treatment for Mentally Disordered Sex
Offenders, in The Sexual Predator (Civil Research Institute, 2006) (Schlank,
Anita, ed.)
A Constitutional Right to Community Treatment for Sexually Violent
Predators following Civil Commitment, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1213
(2004).
Teaching Criminal Law, 48 St. Louis L. J. 1167 (2004).
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).
Exposing the Myths Surrounding Preventive Outpatient Commitment for
Individuals with Chronic Mental Illness, 9 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L.
209 (2003) (with Raymond Deeney)
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) (Winick,
Bruce J. & La Fond, John Q., eds.)
Preventing Kids from Killing, 37 Hous. L.Rev. 21 (2000).
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).
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).
CRIPA: The Failure of Federal Intervention for Mentally Retarded
People, 97 Yale L.J. 845 (1988).
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