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Indiana Law students can build their own plan of study by taking classes from a number of different areas, or they can choose an area of focus.
Description Law and Psychology is a perspectives course, intended to bring insights from psychology to bear on familiar legal issues and institutions. It focuses on the law and psychology of the trial process. The course covers the following topics: how lawyers use psychology in litigation strategy, as background evidence, and in appellate briefs; how appellate courts react to psychology-based arguments; how psychology has affected law reform in cases involving eyewitnesses, child custody, battered spouse syndrome, etc; psychologists as expert witnesses; using psychology to critique legal institutions; and the scientific model, statistics, and dissemination of empirical information to legal actors. (3 cr.)
Faculty J. Hoffmann
| Semester | Title | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2008 - 2009 | Seminar in Law and Psychology of Crime Culp & Punishment | Hoffmann |
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