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Kenworthey Bilz joins the Northwestern Law faculty as an Assistant Professor. Kenworthey recently completed her PhD in social psychology from Princeton University. She has previously clerked for Hon. Frank Easterbrook, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a summer associate for Mayer, Brown & Platt. Her research interests focus on how social psychological processes can inform the study of law. Specifically, she is interested in how legal institutions, rules, and practices affect perceptions of legitimacy and morality, which in turn affect behavior. She draws most of her examples from the area of criminal law.