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Janice Nadler

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Research Professor

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

Joint appointment

Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Illinois; J.D., University of California, Berkeley

Bio

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…

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Research focus

Compliance with the law; perceptions of responsibility and fairness; and negotiation and conflict.

Projects

The Social Psychological Role of Subjective Harm in Punishment
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Mary R. Rose
This research investigates the factors that play a psychological role in laypersons’ decisions about justice and responsibility. In criminal cases jurors sometimes hear, by way of victim impact…
Expressive Law
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Richard McAdams
This project seeks to understand empirically the effects that law has apart from sanctions that it imposes. It tests experimentally the theory that law influences behavior in coordination games with…
Condemn-Nation: The Social Psychological Foundations of the Kelo Backlash
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Shari Seidman Diamond
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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Commentary

Serving up a bailout, with a side of justice

Oct 8, 2008

Serving up a bailout, with a side of justice Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2008 By Kenworthey Bilz and Janice NadlerJust after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's original proposal was made public, an…

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Publications

Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights: Proposed Use, Subjective Attachment, and Taker Identity
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
“Law, Psychology & Morality”
Academic Press
Coordinating in the Shadow of the Law: Two Contextualized Tests of the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance
Law & Society Review

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Presentations

Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights
Sep 2008 Shari Seidman Diamond
Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Mandate Violations on Deviant Behavior
Sep 2008 with E. Mullen
The Psychology of Coercion
Feb 2008

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Co-Editor, Analyzing Law's Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (ABA Publishing, forthcoming,)
  • Member, Executive Board, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Northwestern University