David Wexler

David B. Wexler is John D. Lyons Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and Professor of Law and Director of the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He received the American Psychiatric Association’s Manfred S. Guttmacher Forensic Psychiatry Award; chaired the American Bar Association’s Commission on Mental Disability and the Law; served as Vice President of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health; received the New York University School of Law Distinguished Alumnus Legal Scholarship/Teaching Award; and served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law.

Wexler is a consultant on therapeutic jurisprudence to the National Judicial Institute of Canada, and he has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, lecturing on therapeutic jurisprudence in Australia and New Zealand.

Before entering law teaching, Professor Wexler practiced for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.