Professor Scheflin has been judicially recognized in federal and state courts as an expert on mind and behavior control, suggestion and suggestibility, memory, and hypnosis. He has delivered invited addresses to all of the major professional hypnosis organizations in the United States and in several other countries. He has also addressed many professional mental health and legal organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the American Psychological Association. Scheflin has appeared as an expert in court on issues involving the professional responsibility of lawyers and is a very well-known author, having published more than three dozen articles, book chapters, and book reviews on psychological, psychiatric, and other legal issues.

Prior to joining the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty, Professor Scheflin taught in the law school and philosophy department at Georgetown University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California Law School.

Awards:

• 2010 – Richard von Krafft-Ebbing Award for the Best Paper on Forensic Issues and Hypnosis, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
• 2007 – The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Award of Merit
• 2004 – The American Family Foundation, Herbert L. Rosedale Award
• 2002 – International Society for the Study of Dissociation, Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement
• 2002 – Santa Clara University School of Law, Distinguished Scholarship Award
• 2002 – Santa Clara University, Sustained Excellence in Scholarship Award
• 2001 – American Psychological Association, Division 30 (hypnosis), Distinguished Contribution to Professional Hypnosis Award
• 2001 – American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, Professional Recognition Award
• 2000 – Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Arthur Shapiro Award
• 1999 – American Psychiatric Association, Manfred S. Guttmacher Award
• 1998 – International Society for the Study of Dissociation, Distinguished Achievement Award
• 1998 – American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Award of Merit
• 1998 – American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Presidential Award
• 1996 – Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Arthur Shapiro Award
• 1995 – Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis Arthur Shapiro Award for Clinical Hypnosis and Memory: Guidelines for Clinicians and for Forensic Hypnosis (1995) as Book of the Year.
• 1993 – American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Irving I. Secter Award
• 1991 – American Psychiatric Association, Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for Trance on Trial (1989), his co-authored third book, as the years most outstanding publication on forensic psychiatry