Janice Nadler
Research Professor
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Education
Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Illinois; J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Bio
Janice Nadler is Research Professor at the American Bar
Foundation, and Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. She
received a J.D. from the University of
California at…
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Research focus
Compliance with the law; perceptions of responsibility and fairness; and negotiation and conflict.
Projects
- The Social Psychological Role of Subjective Harm in Punishment
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Mary R. Rose
- This research investigates the factors that play a psychological role in laypersons’ decisions about justice and responsibility. In criminal cases jurors sometimes hear, by way of victim impact…
- Expressive Law
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Richard McAdams
- This project seeks to understand empirically the effects that law has apart from sanctions that it imposes. It tests experimentally the theory that law influences behavior in coordination games with…
- Condemn-Nation: The Social Psychological Foundations of the Kelo Backlash
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Shari Seidman Diamond
- This project seeks to understand and explain the extreme public reaction to the Kelo case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that governments are permitted to force the sale of private property…
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Commentary
Oct 8, 2008
Serving up a bailout, with a side of justice
Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2008
By Kenworthey Bilz and Janice NadlerJust after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's original proposal was made public, an…
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Publications
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Government Takings of Private Property: Kelo and
the Perfect Storm
- Oxford University Press
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Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Mandate Violations on Deviant Behavior
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Constructing Focal Points Through Legal Expression:
An Experimental Test
- Rowman & Littlefield
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Presentations
- The Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: A
Contextualized Test
- Oct 2007
- Psychological Research: Understanding Responses to
Law
- Jul 2007 with Shari Diamond
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Co-Editor, Analyzing Law's Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (ABA Publishing, forthcoming,)
- Member, Executive Board, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Northwestern University