Graduate Student Instructor

Professor: Dr. Sonia Katyal

Course focused on intersections of intellectual property law, prevailing public policy issues in tech, and legal and policy implications of entrepreneurship.

Graduate Student Instructor

Professor: Dr. Victoria Plaut

Course focused on the mechanics of implicit bias, how to interpret and use empirical research findings from psychology, how to understand the major critiques of implicit bias research, and how to understand law’s use of implicit bias findings as well as remedies to implicit bias.

Graduate Student Instructor

Professor: Dr. Jonathan Simon

Course examined the foundational aspects of law and society including the operation of the legal system, foundational theories of punishment. It provided a comparative and historical introduction to forms, ideas, institutions, and systems of law and sociological ordering—highlighting basic theoretical problems and scholarly methods for understanding questions of law and justice.

Graduate Student Instructor

Professor: Dr. Sonia Katyal

Course focused on the legal regulation of sexuality, relevant caselaw, and the social and historical norms and frameworks that affect its intersection with sex, gender, race, disability, class, and other categories.

Graduate Student Instructor

Professor: Dr. Victoria Plaut

Course examined the implications of psychological theory and research for legal theory and the legal system. The course drew on research in social and cognitive psychology to examine evidence law (e.g., eyewitness testimony, polygraph, expert testimony), procedure (e.g., line-ups, trial conduct, jury selection), and various topics in criminal law, tort law, anti-discrimination law, family law, and other areas.

Jurisprudence & Social Policy Forum

UC Berkeley

Guest Speaker: Racial Bias and Structural Inequality Seminar. Stanford University, Psychology Department (Feb 2023)

Guest Speaker: Jurisprudence & Social Policy Pedagogy Seminar, Berkeley School of Law (Feb 2018 - 2022)

Poster presented at: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon (February 2019)

Intersectionality Symposium Talk: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Annual Convention, San Diego, California (June 2019)

Paper presented at: Northwestern University Law Review 2017 Symposium: A Fear of Too Much Justice. Chicago, Illinois (October 2017)

Poster presented at: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Atlanta, Georgia (February 2018)