Justin T. Sevier

Charles W. Ehrhardt Professor of Litigation

PH.D., PSYCHOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY, EXPECTED 2021 M.S. AND M.PHIL., SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LAW, YALE UNIVERSITY, 2013 J.D., HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2006 A.B., CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 2003

Evidence Law and Empirical Psychology, in Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet, editors) (Oxford University Press) (forthcoming 2021)

Procedural Justice in COVID-19-Era Civil Courts, 71 DePaul L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2021)

A [Relational] Theory of Procedure, 104 Minn. L. Rev. 1978 (2020)

An Empirical Assessment of Agency Mechanism Choice (with David L. Markell & Robert Glicksman), 71 Ala. L. Rev. 1039 (2020)

The Paradox of Executive Compensation Regulation (with Minor Myers), 44 J. Corp. L. 755 (2019)

Legitimizing Character Evidence, 68 Emory L.J. 441 (2019)

Consumers, “Seller-Advisors,” and the Psychology of Trust (with Kelli Alces Williams), 59 B.C. L. Rev. 931 (2018)

Evidentiary Trapdoors, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 1155 (2018)

Professor Justin Sevier’s article, A [Relational] Theory of Procedure, 104 MiNNesota Law review 1978 (2020), proffers an updated model of the institutional legitimacy of legal tribunals informed by insights from experimental social psychology. It reports the results from three original psychology experiments which demonstrate the perceived legitimacy of legal dispute resolution is enhanced when the public perceives an alignment between the goals of a legal dispute and the perceived priorities of the procedure that resolves the dispute.