Social Science Lecture Series Concludes

03/19/2007

Social Science Lecture Series Concludes
      The First Biennial Willard H. Pedrick Speaker Series on Social Science and Legal Policy concludes this week with Tom R. Tyler, professor of law and psychology at New York University, speaking on "Strategies of Social Control: Motivating Rule Adherence in Organizational Settings."
     The series, organized by Professors Ira Ellman and Michael Saks of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, included six speakers over three months.
     The speaker series is coordinated with a seminar taught by Ellman and Saks to a mix of law students and doctoral students in the social sciences, who work in interdisciplinary teams on papers applying social science findings to legal policy issues.
     The lecture series and the class, both part of a new joint degree program in psychology and law, are another illustration of the law school's unique strength in interdisciplinary studies.
     Professor Linda DeMaine is director of the psychology and law program, which has just admitted its first doctoral student.
     In addition to Tyler, the speakers were:
     Robert Cialdini, regent's professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University, who spoke on "Recycling the Concept of Norms to Protect the Environment;"
     Thomas D. Lyon, professor of law and psychology at the University of Southern California, who spoke on "Maltreated Children's Secrets and Lies;"
     Neil Malamuth, professor of psychology, communication and women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who spoke on "Pornography's Effects: The Importance of Individual Differences;"
   Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon professor of law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley, who addressed "The Great American Crime Decline;" and
     Rob MacCoun, professor of public policy, law and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who discussed "Sex, Drugs, and Skateboarding: Moral Outrage and Opposition to Policies that Reduce the Harms of Risky Behavior."
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