An Editorial Overview in Special Issue: Emerging Trends in Psychology and Law Research

Trump v. United States is so intensely criticized that, in some quarters, it is at risk of being included in the anti-canon. It is alleged to be...

Trump v. United States’s discovery of broad immunity has rendered the presidency more imperial and unaccountable. This Article tackles four questions...

Contrary to previous research and press accounts, we find limited evidence that persons who worked the polls in the past, including the 2020 election...

I suspect that CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd. caught the eye of the Supreme Court because of an interesting constitutional question...

Lack of criminal responsibility due to “legal insanity” is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in the criminal legal system.  Contrary to...

Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the Supreme Court acknowledged the difficulties in applying its constitutional originalism to the...

The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...

Memory issues stemming from criminal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses are well-known. However, the relevance of memory to law...

Detailed descriptions of violent postictal episodes are rare. We provide evidence from an index case and from a systematic review of violent postictal...

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of US political scientists, a new generation of...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

Differences in employee evaluations due to gender bias may be small in any given rating cycle, but these small differences may accumulate to produce...

Judicial reform efforts aimed at rectifying historical gender and racial inequalities understandably focus on increasing the number of women and...