Dual Degree Faculty

Cornell University’s LPHD faculty spans three colleges—Human Ecology, the Law School, and Arts and Sciences —and includes some of the leading scholars in topics ranging from memory and eye-witness testimony to decision-making, jury psychology, and cognition in children and adults. Their work aims to shed light on topics intrinsic to the law and justice, with the hope that advancements in our knowledge of people, crime, memory and testimony, motivation and culpability can lead, ultimately, to a more just legal system.

Dual Degree Faculty

Charles Brainerd
PhD, Developmental and Experimental Psychology
Department of Human Development
Director of Law, Psychology and Human Development Program
Memory and Neuroscience Laboratory

Valerie P. Hans
PhD, Social Psychology
Professor of Law

Stephen J. Ceci 
PhD, Developmental Psychology
Helen L. Carr Chaired Professor of Psychology
SUNY Distinguished Professor

Valerie F. Reyna
PhD, Developmental and Experimental Psychology
Department of Human Development
Laboratory for Rational Decision Making

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
JD, PhD, Psychology
Professor of Law

John Blume
JD, Professor of Law
Director of Cornell Death Penalty Project

Sheri L. Johnson
JD, Professor of Law
Assistant Director of Cornell Death Penalty Project

David A. Dunning
PhD, Psychology
Department of Psychology

John Eckenrode
PhD, Psychology
Department of Human Development

Wendy M. Williams
PhD, Experimental Psychology
Department of Human Development