Graduate Programs Affliated with Legal Studies JD/PHD Program: Students pursuing the JD/PhD combined program spend the first two years in their various disciplinary departments on the Evanston campus. During that time, the Center for Legal Studies serves as a resource for teaching, advising, and programming. Legal Studies sponsors a graduate student/faculty reading group in which JD/PhD students and graduate students interested in the study of law and society may participate. The administration of the JD/PhD program is handled by Simon Greenwold and Donald Rebstock. Graduate Contacts Please contact the following people if you have specific questions about the JD/PhD program Simon Greenwold Senior Associate Dean, The Graduate School s-greenwold@northwestern.edu Donald Rebstock Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Career Strategy, Law School d-rebstock@law.northwestern.edu

Additionally, Graduate Students and Law Students may be interested in: The Law & Society Workshop

Graduate Students The following students are either JD/PhD students or they are graduate students interested in Legal Studies

Destiny Peery d-peery(at)northwestern(dot)edu Destiny Peery is a Ph.D./J.D. student in Social Psychology. She started in the joint degree program in 2006, and is interested in multiracial identity and the social policy implications related to how it is legally defined and classified, as well as how representativeness (particularly racial/ethnic) affects jury functioning and outcomes. Before beginning her graduate studies, received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota and worked for an educational non-profit in Minneapolis, MN.   Nicole Martorano Van Cleve n-vancleve(at)northwestern(dot)edu Nicole Martorano Van Cleve is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology. Her areas of interest include criminal justice, organizations and the study of institutions and culture. She received her B.A. at Northwestern University where she received the Farrel Grant for Public Policy. She served in The Office of the Chief of Staff at the White House during the Clinton Administration and subsequently worked for five years as a Consumer Brand Planner for Leo Burnett, USA. Nicole is the Research Director for Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and is currently working on a system-wide study of the Criminal Justice System in Cook County, IL. Her dissertation examines criminal justice reform movements in Chicago-Cook County.   Jared Isaac Voskuhl J-Voskuhl (at)northwestern (dot) edu Jared Voskuhl is a PhD student in the Sociology department. His research centers on the effects of social status upon jury deliberations using the Arizona Filming Project dataset, with permission from Shari Diamond. His dissertation analyzes intra-juror deference, specifically when jurors' opinions and interpretations of testimony are deferred to during deliberations. By using deference as a measure for social status, he is able to explore the types and characteristics of jurors who hold a higher social status amongst their peers on the jury in order to examine status derived internally from within the group—not independent of social status outside of the deliberation, but also not predicated by it.