Dorie Klein

ph: (210) 431-2264
email: dklein@stmarytx.edu

Professor of Law
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
M.A. (Psychology), University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Swarthmore College

Before St. Mary's

Professor Klein joined the St. Mary's faculty in 2006, after serving for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law. She graduated in 2002 from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was an articles editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review. After law school, Professor Klein worked as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and also clerked for Judge Deborah Cook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Publications

Rehabilitating Mental Disorder Evidence After Clark v. Arizona, 60 Case W. Res. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2010).
Unreasonable: Involuntary Medications, Incompetent Criminal Defendants, and the Fourth Amendment, 46 San Diego L. Rev. 161 (2009).
Autonomy and Acute Psychosis: When Choices Collide, 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 355 (2008) (review essay of Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness).
Categorical Exclusions from Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make A Right? 72 Brook. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).
Curiouser and Curiouser: Involuntary Medications and Incompetent Criminal Defendants After Sell v. United States, 13 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 871 (2005).
Involuntary Treatment of the Mentally Ill: Autonomy is Asking the Wrong Question, 27 Vt. L. Rev. 649 (2003).
Beyond Brown v. Board of Education: The Need to Remedy the Achievement Gap, 31 J.L. & Educ. 431 (2002).
Note, Trial Rights and Psychotropic Drugs, 55 Vand. L. Rev. 165 (2002).