Janice Nadler, "The Promise of Expressive Law"

How Law Works: Perspectives from Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Philosophy

A Conference on Richard McAdams’ The Expressive Powers of Law and Frederick Schauer’s The Force of Law

Janice Nadler is the Stanford Clinton Research Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She received a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She does research at the intersection of social psychology and law, focusing on compliance with the law; psychology of property; perceptions of responsibility and moral character; and negotiation. She has conducted empirical studies on how victim impact information influences judgments about criminal responsibility, how law influences behavior apart from sanctions it imposes, and how communication medium affects the process and outcomes of negotiations. Other projects have examined the psychology of coercion in the context of the Fourth Amendment, and the effect of social norms on file sharing. She teaches Criminal Law, Negotiation, and Law & Psychology.

Recorded October 9, 2015, at the University of Chicago Law School.