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Professor Daniel H. Benson

Daniel H. Benson Benson, Daniel H.
Adjunct Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor of Sociology
Former Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Law
(806) 742-3990 x231
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Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Texas.

Professor Benson published a national criminal law casebook, Hall’s Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition (1993), with co-authors John S. Baker of the Louisiana State University Law Center, Robert Force of the Tulane University School of law, and B. J. George of the New York Law School. With Professor Brian Shannon he co-authored Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness: An Analysis and Guide in 1994, a second edition of the book in 1999, and a third edition in 2005. He has also co-authored with Professor Brian Shannon a 2004 revision of Mental Illness, Your Client, and the Criminal Law: A Handbook for Attorneys Who Represent Persons with Mental Illness. A third edition of that book was published by Professor Benson and Professor Shannon in 2005.

Recent pro bono work by Professor Benson has included his service as a co-counsel with Lubbock attorney Floyd Holder, Dallas attorneys Charles Meadows and Lezlie Allen, and Washington, D.C. attorneys Daniel Schwartz and Jonathan Turley, in the defense of a research scientist accused of several federal offenses arising from the shipment and disposition of samples of plague virus.

Professor Benson serves as a member of the City of Lubbock’s Audit Committee, appointed by the Lubbock City Council in 2003 to monitor auditing of the City’s finances and accounting systems and to provide audit integrity of the kind required in non-governmental entities by the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

In addition, Professor Benson continues to render pro bono legal services to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, as he has for the past twenty-three years, serving as legal counsel to hearing panels considering various cases involving terminations and grievances concerning School of Medicine faculty members.

Degrees

B.A., University of Texas, 1958

J.D., University of Texas, 1961

M.A., Texas Tech University, 1974

Courses

Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, Military Criminal Justice

Selected Publications

Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness: An Analysis and Guide (3rd edition 2005) (co-author with Professor Brian Shannon)

Mental Illness, Your Client, and the Criminal Law: A Handbook for Attorneys Who Represent Persons with Mental Illness (2nd edition 2004) (co-author with Professor Brian Shannon)

Texas Criminal Procedure & the Offender with Mental Illness: an Analysis & Guide. (NAMI-Texas, 2nd ed. 1999). (Co-author)

Environmental Protection Deskbook. (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed. 1995). (Co-author)

Texas Criminal Procedure & the Offender with Mental Illness: an Analysis & Guide (The Alliance, 1994). (Co-author)

Teacher's Manual, Hall's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed., Michie, 1994).

Hall's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, (5th ed., Michie, 1993). (Co-author)

The Crime Control Act of 1990 and Other Criminal Laws Affecting Banks and Bank Counsel, 46 Consumer Fin. L.Q. Rep. 202 (1992).

Capital Sentencing Evidence after Penry and Payne 17 T. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (1991).