Professor, San Francisco School of Law and Berkley School of Law, California
Professor Leo is the Hamill Family Chair in Law and Social Psychology and professor and Dean’s Circle Research Scholar at the San Francisco School of Law, and a Fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Professor Leo is one of the leading experts in the world on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions, and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. Professor Leo has authored more than 100 articles in leading scientific and legal journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008). Dr. Leo is one of the most cited criminal law and procedure professors in the United States and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court on multiple occasions.
Professor Leo has worked on many high profile cases involving false confessions, including the cases of Michael Crowe, Earl Washington, Kerry Max Cook, the Beatrice Six, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. of the West Memphis 3, the Norfolk 4 and two of the Central Park jogger defendants.
Professor Leo is the Hamill Family Chair in Law and Social Psychology and professor and Dean’s Circle Research Scholar at the San Francisco School of Law, and a Fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Professor Leo is one of the leading experts in the world on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions, and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. Professor Leo has authored more than 100 articles in leading scientific and legal journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008). Dr. Leo is one of the most cited criminal law and procedure professors in the United States and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court on multiple occasions.
Professor Leo has worked on many high profile cases involving false confessions, including the cases of Michael Crowe, Earl Washington, Kerry Max Cook, the Beatrice Six, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. of the West Memphis 3, the Norfolk 4 and two of the Central Park jogger defendants.