Shari Diamond

Professor

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Shari Seidman Diamond, JD, PhD, is the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.  An attorney and social psychologist, she has authored 150 articles in behavioral science journals and legal publications; has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the U. of Illinois at Chicago; served as editor of the Law & Society Review; and was president of the American Psychology-Law Society. She has lectured widely to scholarly and judicial audiences, and has testified in American and Canadian courts on surveys and juries. Her publications have been cited by federal and state courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Diamond received the 2010 Harry Kalven, Jr. Award from the Law and Society Association for Contributions to Research in Law and Society, and the 1991 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy.  As a member of the ABA’s American Jury Project, she helped draft the Principles for Juries and Jury Trials adopted in 2005, and she currently serves as an advisor to the ABA Commission on the Jury. She was elected in 2012 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.