• Robbennolt appointed associate dean for research

    Jul 13, 2016 7:00 amFaculty

    Jennifer Robbennolt, the Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, has been named the associate dean for research at the University of Illinois College of Law. Robbennolt joins Dean Vikram Amar, Jamelle Sharpe (associate dean for academic affairs), and Margareth Etienne (associate dean for graduate and international programs) in the senior administrative team.

    Robbennolt is a renowned scholar in the area of psychology and law, torts, and dispute resolution. Her research integrates psychology into the study of law and legal institutions, focusing primarily on legal decision-making and the use of empirical research methodology in law, and is co-author of several books, including The Psychology of Tort Law, which was published earlier this year by New York University Press. 

    She has served as secretary of the American Psychology-Law Society and as the chair of the AALS section on law and the social sciences, and she is on the editorial boards of Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; Law and Human Behavior; and Law and Social Inquiry.

    A graduate with highest honors of the University of Nebraska College of Law, she also earned master's and doctoral degrees in social psychology from the University of Nebraska.

    Before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, Professor Robbennolt was associate dean for faculty research and development, associate professor, and senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. Prior to that, she was a research associate and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and served as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Gerrard of the Nebraska Supreme Court.