Dear SCU Community,

We are saddened to share the recent passing of Santa Clara University School of Law Professor Emeritus Alan Walter Scheflin in New Jersey on August 27, 2023, his 81st birthday.

With a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University and law degrees from George Washington University and Harvard University, Professor Scheflin was recognized in federal and state courts as an expert on mind and behavior control, suggestion and suggestibility, memory, and hypnosis.

Professor Scheflin taught at the Santa Clara University Law School from 1973-2014. In the course of his distinguished career, he received eighteen professional awards from diverse psychiatric and law organizations, authored or co-authored seven books, 51 articles, and 13 book chapters, and provided Expert Witness testimony in 42 judicial cases involving legal ethics, legal malpractice, the insanity defense, the science of hypnosis, brainwashing, and mind control, repressed memory, false memory, dissociative disorders, satanic and cult activities, and government mind and behavior control programs.

Alan is remembered with gratitude and respect by his former colleagues and students. He is survived by his wife, Jamie Caploe, an alumna of Santa Clara University Law School, and their daughter, Hallie Caploe Scheflin.

Notes of condolence may be sent to:

Law School - Dean's Office
Charney Hall, Room 311

May Alan rest in peace.

Julie Sullivan
President