Janice Nadler
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 Berkeley,
and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of law and
psychology, and her research focuses on social norms, compliance with the law, perceptions
of injustice, negotiation, and dispute resolution. 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. Currently, she is
conducting (with Shari Diamond) a study of the psychology of property rights,
through an examination of attitudes about eminent domain law and practice.