Kenworthey Bilz

Associate Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-0711
E-mail: k-bilz@law.northwestern.edu

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Kenworthey Bilz joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2006, after completing a PhD in Social Psychology at Princeton University, with John Darley as her advisor. Prior to that, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern, and before that, as a law clerk to Judge Frank Easterbrook on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Prof. Bilz studies how social psychological processes can inform the study of law. Specifically, she is interested in how legal institutions, laws, rules and practices affect perceptions of legitimacy, morality, and justice, which in turn affect behavior. She draws most of her examples from the area of criminal law and evidence.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Criminal Law
Evidence

Social Psychology

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

Law, Psychology & Morality , Moral Cognition and Decision Making , 2009
Self-Incrimination Doctrine Is Dead; Long Live Self-Incrimination Doctrine: Confessions, Scientific Evidence, and the Anxieties of the Liberal State , 30 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 807-869, 2009
The Puzzle of Delegated Revenge , 87 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1059-1112, 2007
The Fall of the Confession Era, 96 JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 367-384, 2005

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EDUCATION

AB with honors, Harvard College
JD with honors, University of Chicago
MA & PhD, Princeton University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Department of Psychology