Professor Nancy S. Marder
Nancy S. Marder is a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she is also the Director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center. Her research and writing focus on juries, judges, and courts. Professor Marder has written and lectured on every stage of the jury process from the jury summons to the post-verdict interview with jurors. She also writes about juries and judges in popular culture, the intersection of juries, gender, and race, and juries in other countries. She is the author of The Power of the Jury: Transforming Citizens into Jurors (Cambridge University Press, 2022), a co-editor of Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2021), which received the 2024 American Psychology-Law Society Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Jr. Book Award, and is a co-editor, with Valerie Hans, of the Research Handbook on Jury Decision Making forthcoming in 2026.
