James Lindgren

Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-8374
E-mail: jlindgren@law.northwestern.edu

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James Lindgren is a leading scholar in the growing movement of New Legal Empiricists. Many of his current projects examine the roles that viewpoint diversity plays in American society. He is an influential scholar in the area of trusts and estates. He has also done important scholarship in legal education, law reviews and criminal law. He is a cofounder of the Section on Scholarship of the Association of American Law Schools and a former chair of its Section on Social Science and the Law.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Criminal Law
Estates and Trusts
Professional Responsibility

Law and Social Science
Empirical Legal Research

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Recent Publications

The Private and Public Employment of African-American Lawyers, 1960-2000 , 17 JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ISSUES 281-293, 2008
Predicting the Future of Empirical Legal Studies, 86 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1447-1460, 2006
Foreword: Symposium on Censorship and Institutional Review Boards , 101 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 399-403, 2007
Regulating Creativity: Research and Survival in the IRB Iron Cage , 101 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 593-641, 2007
Introducing a New Paradigm for Ethical Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences: Part I , 101 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 837-859, 2007

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EDUCATION

BA cum laude, Yale University
JD, University of Chicago
PhD Student, Sociology, University of Chicago

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Norma and Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1990-96
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1982-90
Research Attorney, American Bar Foundation, 1979-82
Attorney, Reuben & Proctor, 1978-79
Attorney, Hopkins & Sutter, 1977-78