Shari Seidman Diamond

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University School of Law

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, Northwestern University; J.D., University of Chicago

Research focus

Legal decision-making, including conflicts between expertise and impartiality; discretion and control; equality and individuation; and science and law. Research addresses how these conflicts influence jury and judicial decision-making, judgments about fairness, and how courts use and fail to make use of scientific evidence.

Projects

Building on the Arizona Filming Project: Latest finding: Sep 10, 2008, with Mary R. Rose; A variety of studies have been conducted based upon the deliberations of jurors in the 50 civil trials in the Arizona Filming Project. Ongoing studies are focusing on how juries handle comparative…
Condemn-Nation: The Social Psychological Foundations of the Kelo Backlash: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Janice Nadler; 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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Publications

Government Takings of Private Property: Kelo and the Perfect Storm: Oxford University Press
Trademark Dilution: Of Fame, Blurring, and Sealing Wax, with a Touch of Judicial Wisdom: Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Journal
Preferences for Juries over Judges across Racial and Ethnic Groups: Social Science Quarterly

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Presentations

How Juries Decide: Jul 2008
Inside the Jury Room: Jul 2008
How Juries Decide: System Challenges for Legal Guidance: Jun 2008

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Professional Service & Recognition

Member, Editorial Boards, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Law and Human Behavior; Law & Policy; Psychology, Law & Crime; Psychology, Public Policy, & Law; and Justice System Journal
Member, Advisory Board, Evidence & Evidentiary Procedure, SSRN
Member, 7th Circuit American Jury Project Commission, 2005-
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science/ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS), 2005-
Member, American Jury Project, 2003-2005 (task: writing ABA Principles for Juries and Jury Trials— adopted 2/14/05)
Member, Advisory Committee for the Directorate on the Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, 2002-