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Programs & Events |  Affiliated Faculty | Publications | Centers Home
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The Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition Steering Committee, under the leadership of the Center Director Lawrence M. Solan, is an outstanding group of faculty who have expertise and a special interest in the study of language, linguistics, and cognitive theory and their relationship to the law. For more detailed information about each of the faculty, click on a name.
Lawrence M. Solan Professor Solan writes extensively about ways in which advances in linguistics and psychology can contribute to such legal issues as the jury system, statutory interpretation, contract law and evidence.
Ursula Bentele Professor Bentele has published several articles based on empirical research concerning how jurors, prosecutors and other members of the legal system understand their tasks, especially in the context of death penalty cases.
Margaret A. Berger Professor Berger is an internationally acclaimed expert on the law of evidence in general, and on issues concerning science and the law in particular.
Elizabeth Fajans Professor Fajans has written numerous books and articles about legal writing and legal language.
James Fanto Professor Fanto has written about language and investor education, and about psychological perspectives on mergers and corporate governance.
Susan Herman Professor Herman writes about and teaches courses on the jury system, and on law and literature.
Bailey H. Kuklin Professor Kuklin is engaged in research on evolutionary psychology and its implications for the legal system.
Gary Minda Professor Minda is the author of Boycott in America, a book that uses advances in cognitive theory to trace the history and uses of an important legal metaphor.
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