Leadership
Brian Bornstein
Principal investigator
Research Professor Bornstein, the PI of this project, served as Program Officer for the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation prior to joining the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at ASU. His research focuses mainly on the reliability of eyewitness memory and how juries make decisions. He has more than 200 publications in his areas of expertise, as well as 21 authored or edited books, and has procured more than $3 million in external funding, from agencies like NSF and NIJ. He has taught a variety of courses within cognitive, social, and legal psychology, as well as the history of psychology.
Scott Barclay
Co-principal investigator
Professor Barclay, the Co-PI of this project, recently served as a Program Director in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. His ongoing research project explores the interplay of political, demographic and social movement factors that influence the deployment of law. His research has been published in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics and Law and Policy. His research findings have been directly referenced in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and his research has been supported by private foundations.
Rebecca Sandefur
Co-principal investigator
Professor Sandefur, the Co-PI of this project, has extensive experience with NSF as an awardee, reviewer, and panelist. Her research investigates access to civil justice from every angle -- from how legal services are delivered and consumed, to how civil legal aid is organized around the nation, to the role of pro bono, to the relative efficacy of lawyers, nonlawyers and digital tools as advisers and representatives, to how ordinary people think about their justice problems and try to resolve them. In addition to her appointment at ASU, Sandefur is Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the Access to Justice Research Initiative.
Colleen Sullivan
Graduate research assistant
Colleen Sullivan, the graduate research assistant (GRA) for this project, is a PhD student in the Law and Psychology program at ASU. Her research interests lie at the intersection of developmental psychology and the law, including evaluating children’s competencies to report and testify to alleged sexual abuse, and legal decision making in family law cases. She has experience working on multiple federally funded studies.