Dr. Westphal is an associate professor, adjunct, at Yale’s Division of Law and Psychiatry. He has a clinical and research focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder and is particularly interested in clinical risk assessment and ASD, as well as other topics related to ASD and the legal system. He is an editor of Springer’s Handbook of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Law and prior chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law’s committee on Developmental Disabilities.
