Dan Simon

Professor of Law and Psychology
Dan Simon
Email dsimon@law.usc.edu Office Phone 213-740-0168

Biography

Dan Simon specializes in the field of Law & Psychology. He teaches Criminal Law, as well as various courses in the intersection of law and psychology. He also teaches courses on Law and Psychology and on Wrongful Convictions at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Simon is the author of In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process, published by Harvard University Press in 2012 (for book website). The book has been translated into Korean, Chinese and Japanese, and it earned the Annual Book...

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Richard L. and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Law and Psychology, USC Gould School of Law, 2012 –
    • Professor of Law & Psychology, USC Gould School of Law, 2005 –
    • Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law, 2004 –
    • Lecturer, Haifa University Law School, 1998-1999

    Visiting and Temporary Appointments

    • Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Fall 2009
    • Felix Frankfurter Visiting professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Spring 2010
  • Book

    • Simon, D. (2012). In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. In Doubt

    Journal Article

    • Brownstein, A., Simon, D., Read, S. J. (2005). Bias at the Racetrack: The Effect of Constraint Satisfaction Processing on Betting Decisions. Judgment and Decision Making. Vol. NA
    • Simon, D., Snow, C. J., Read, S. J. (2004). The Redux of Cognitive Consistency Theories: Evidence Judgments by Constraint Satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology/American Psychological Association. Vol. 86, pp. 814-837.
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