Samuel Jan Brakel is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Health Law Institute at DePaul University in Chicago and Senior Consultant and former Vice President of Management, Legal Affairs and Project Development at the Isaac Ray Center, Inc.
Professor Brakel is the author of the book, Law and Psychiatry in the Criminal Justice System, and his scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as the American Bar Foundation Research Journal, Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, American Bar Foundation Research Journal, New Mexico Law Review, British Journal of Psychiatry, New England Journal on Crime and Civil Confinement, Georgie Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, DePaul Law Review, Judicature, Law & Social Inquiry, Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, Law and Society Review, Australasian Psychiatry, and Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy.