Elyn R. Saks is an American legal scholar and the Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She also serves as the Founder and Faculty Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, and is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.