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Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law

Expertise: Empirical Legal Studies, Psychology and Law, Torts and Product Liability, Environmental and Health Law, Administrative Law

Contact

jjr7@cornell.edu

(607) 255-5878

Assistant

Sarah Carpenter

Cornell Law School

scp88@cornell.edu

Address

Cornell Law School
122 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

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Biography

Jeffrey Rachlinski is the Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in psychology from the Johns Hopkins University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford. In 1994, Rachlinski joined the faculty at Cornell Law School. He has also served as visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. Rachlinski’s research interests primarily involve the application of cognitive and social psychology to law with special attention to judicial decision making. He has presented his research on judicial decision making to audiences in attendance at over 100 judicial education conferences, which have included over 5,000 judges in a dozen states and three countries.

Professor Rachlinski has taught administrative law, business organizations, civil procedure, contracts, environmental law, products liability, torts, and psychology and law.

- B.A., M.A., (Psychology) The Johns Hopkins University, 1988
- J.D., Stanford University, 1993
- Ph.D., (Psychology) Stanford University, 1994
- Rachlinski, Jeffrey John, “The Politics of Legal Empirics: Do Political Attitudes Predict the Results of Empirical Legal Scholarship?,” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-29 (February 26, 2018)
- Rachlinski, Jeffrey John and Andrew J. Wistrich, “Judging the Judiciary by the Numbers: Empirical Research on Judges,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 13, p. 203-229, 2017
- Wistrich, Andrew J. and Jeffrey John Rachlinski, “Implicit Bias in Judicial Decision Making: How It Affects Judgment and What Judges Can Do About It,” American Bar Association, Enhancing Justice (2017)
- Rachlinski, Jeffrey John, Andrew J. Wistrich, and Chris Guthrie, “Can Judges Make Reliable Numeric Judgments? Distorted Damages and Skewed Sentences,” Indiana Law Journal 90, no. 2, 2015
See all publications on SSRN.
- 2650 Psychology and Law
- 5001 Civil Procedure
- 6361 Environmental Law

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

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