Dr. Dan Simon

Biography

Dan Simon specializes in Law and Psychology and teaches Criminal Law and courses on the intersection of law and psychology, including Wrongful Convictions, at USC Gould School of Law. He authored the book 'Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process,' published by Harvard University Press in 2012, which has been translated into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, and earned the Annual Book Award from the American Psychology-Law Society in 2015. He has lectured on the psychological dimensions of the criminal justice process to judges, prosecutors, and police personnel in the United States, Israel, Mexico, and Korea. Simon is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled 'Lashing Psychology Carceral State,' under contract with Oxford University Press. His publications span legal-psychological crossover journals and law reviews, with notable works such as 'The Adversarial Mindset' and 'The Limited Diagnosticity of Criminal Trials.' Simon has served as a visiting professor at prestigious law schools and was a member of the Human Factors Committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) focused on forensic science reforms from 2014 to 2020. He holds an SJD degree from Harvard Law School, an MBA from INSEAD, and an LLB from Tel Aviv University.

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