Senior Associate Dean Shestowsky Gives Talk for Sydney Law School

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Donna Shestowsky was invited to speak by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney (Australia) Law School.

Shestowsky’s Nov. 4 virtual talk was titled “The Voir Dire Paradox: How Jury Selection Procedures Can Undermine Jury Impartiality.”

Donna Shestowsky is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. She holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in psychology and is a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Psychology at UC Davis.  Her main research objective is to examine basic assumptions underlying the structure of the legal system and to explore ways in which the legal system might be improved using the methodological and analytic tools of psychological theory and research.