Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, the Dean of Berkeley Law has been a long time friend of NAFUSA and has given the Supreme Court Update at our 2015 conference in San Diego and at the 2019 conference in San Francisco. The Dean has introduced us to one of his colleagues, Avani Mehta Sood, Professor of Law at Berkeley. Professor Sood is conducting academic research on jury decision-making and is seeking assistance from our members. Please review her message below and we urge you to take a few moments to complete her survey.

Dear Former and Current Legal Practitioners,

 

I hope this message finds you and yours in good health.

 

I am a law professor and social psychologist, seeking your views and intuitions about different verdict formats in criminal jury cases, through an anonymous survey in the link below:

https://berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bqIc9CZ7wD0e9H7

(If this hyperlink does not activate, please copy and paste the above into your browser)

 

I would greatly appreciate if you would take 15-20 minutes to complete this survey and forward it to any other current or former lawyers (e.g., prosecutors, defense attorneys, civil litigators) you know who might be willing to complete it too. (No specific expertise is needed for the survey—it has been designed for non-lawyers to complete as well.)

 

Thank you for your time!

 

Best regards,

Avani Mehta Sood

Professor of Law

University of California, Berkeley

amsood@law.berkeley.edu