Shari Seidman Diamond
Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law
Professor of Psychology

Phone
(312) 503-2040
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
Institute for Policy Research
| Center for Legal Studies
Assistant
Cameron Viera
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1389
Assistant Email
cameron.viera@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Shari Seidman Diamond is the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. An attorney and social psychologist, she is one of the foremost empirical researchers on jury process and legal decision-making, including the use of science by the courts. She has authored or co-authored more than a hundred publications in law reviews and behavioral science journals. She is currently completing a book on juries based on a unique field experiment in which cameras recorded real jury deliberations.
Areas of Expertise
- Trademarks
- Juries
- Law and Social Science
- Empirical Legal Research
Selected Publications
- Trademark And Deceptive Advertising Surveys: Law, Science, And Design (American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law 2012) (with Jerre B. Swann).
- Reference Guide on Survey Research, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence 359-423, 3rd edition (Federal Judicial Center/National Academy of Sciences 2011).
- Damage Anchors on Real Juries, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 148-78 (2011) (with Mary R. Rose, Beth Murphy, & John Meixner).
- Efficiency and Cost: The Impact of Videoconferenced Hearings on Bail Decisions, 100 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 869-902 (2010) (with Locke E. Bowman, Manyee Wong, and Matthew M. Patton).
- Empirical Scholarship in Law Reviews, 6 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 581-99 (2010) (with Pam Mueller ).
- Goffman on the Jury: Real Jurors’ Attention to the “Offstage” of Trials , 34 Law and Human Behavior 310-323 (2010) (with Mary R. Rose, and Kim M. Butler ).
Education
- BA, University of Michigan
- JD with honors, University of Chicago
- MA, Northwestern University
- PhD, Northwestern University
Prior Appointments
- Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
- Attorney, Sidley & Austin
- Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
- Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Recent Consulting Activities
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (New York)
- O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles)
- Special Advisor, ABA Commission on the American Jury Project