Gregory Mitchell

Gregory Mitchell

Joseph Weintraub-Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law
Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law
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Phone
(434) 243-4088
Room
WB307
Assistant
Valerie Listorti

Greg Mitchell joined the faculty in 2006 after visiting during the 2004-05 academic year. He teaches courses in civil litigation and law and psychology, and his scholarship focuses on legal judgment and decision-making, the psychology of justice, and the application of social science to legal theory and policy.

After receiving his law degree and doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, Mitchell clerked for Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., in the Middle District of Tennessee, and then practiced civil litigation with the Nashville law firm of Doramus, Trauger & Ney. Prior to joining the Law School, Mitchell was an assistant professor at Michigan State, an associate professor and the Sheila M. McDevitt Professor of Law at Florida State, and a visiting associate professor at Vanderbilt.

Scholarship Profile: The Promise and Limitations of an Empirical Approach to Law (Virginia Journal 2008)

Current Courses
All Courses

Civil Procedure
Evidence
Employment Discrimination
Law and Psychology

Education
J.D. , University of California at Berkeley School of Law , 1993
Ph.D. , University of California at Berkeley , 1994
M.A. , University of California at Berkeley , 1990
B.A. , University of Arkansas , 1988
Expertise
  • Law and psychology
  • Behavioral law and economics
  • Evidence
  • Complex civil litigation
  • Employment discrimination
Affiliations
Center for Empirical Studies in Law
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