Shari Seidman Diamond

Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-2040
E-mail: s-diamond@law.northwestern.edu

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Shari Seidman Diamond is a lawyer and social psychologist who is one of the foremost empirical researchers on the jury process and legal decision-making. Shari is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. She is now conducting a pathbreaking research project on actual jury deliberations in the Arizona state courts. Her other fields of interest include science and the courts, the regulation of trademarks and advertising, and field research methodology.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Juries
Law and Social Science

Empirical Legal Research
Trademarks

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

Offstage Behavior: Real Jurors’ Scrutiny of Non-Testimonial Conduct, 58 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 311-342 , 2009
Achieving Diversity on the Jury: Jury Size and the Peremptory Challenge , 6 JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 425-449 , 2009
Goffman on the Jury: Real Jurors’ Attention to the “Offstage” of Trials , 2009 LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
How Jurors Deal with Expert Testimony and How Judges Can Help , 16 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY 47-67, 2007
Trademark Dilution: Of Fame, Blurring, and Sealing Wax, with a Touch of Judicial Wisdom, 24 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 521-540, 2008

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JOINT APPOINTMENTS

Research Professor, American Bar Foundation

EDUCATION

BA, University of Michigan
JD with honors, University of Chicago
MA, Northwestern University
PhD, Northwestern University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
Attorney, Sidley & Austin
Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Professor of Psychology and Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
Director of NIMH Traineeship Program in Crime and Delinquency

RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Consultant, Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago), trademark
Consultant, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (New York), trademark
Consultant, Dimock Stratton LLP (Toronto), trademark
Consultant, 7th Circuit American Jury Project Commission