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Donald
N. Bersoff
Director
Law and Psychology Program
Professor of Law
Email: Donald.Bersoff@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4819
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 271
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Education
J.D., Yale University Law School
Ph.D., New York University
M.A., New York University
B.S., New York University
Donald Bersoff is a nationally renowned
expert on legal and ethical issues in mental health, developmental
disabilities and
education, as well as ethics and the law.
Before coming to Drexel,
Professor Bersoff directed the J.D.-Ph.D. Program in Law and
Psychology offered jointly by the
Villanova University School of Law and the Department of Clinical & Health
Psychology at MCP Hahnemann University (which has since merged
with Drexel University.) He has served as an adjunct professor
in Drexel University’s Department of Psychology since 2001.
His other academic
positions include developing the nation’s
second joint law and psychology program, offered by Johns Hopkins
University and the University of Maryland School of Law, as well
as holding faculty posts at the University of Georgia College
of Education and Ohio State University.
Professor Bersoff
edited the landmark “Ethical Conflicts
in Psychology,” now in its fourth edition, and wrote more
than 100 publications and papers on the interaction of law, psychology
and public policy. His articles have appeared in publications
including American Psychologist, University of Chicago Law
School Roundtable, Law and Human Behavior, Ethics & Behavior and
the Journal of School Psychology.
Professor Bersoff
has extensive professional experience in both law and psychology,
having been general counsel to the American
Psychological Association, and a partner in the Washington-based
firms of Jenner & Block and Ennis Friedman & Bersoff.
Elected to three terms on the APA Council of Representatives,
he served as president of the American Psychology-Law Society
and chairman of the Association of American Law Schools Section
on Mental Disability Law. His experience as a clinical psychologist
includes work with the U.S. Air Force in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
His media interviews and commentary include appearances on CNN,
CBS Morning News and NPR.
Professor Bersoff received his J.D. from Yale University Law
School, where he served on the editorial board of the Yale
Law Journal.
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