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Adam
Benforado
Assistant
Professor of Law
Email: Adam.F.Benforado@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4809
Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 277
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Education
J.D., cum
laude, Harvard Law School
B.A., summa cum laude, Yale University
Adam Benforado’s
principal interests include law and mind sciences, corporate
law and contract law.
Professor Benforado received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and was a Frank Knox Fellow and Visiting Scholar with the Cambridge University Faculty of Law. He clerked for Judge Judith Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Most recently, Professor Benforado worked at Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, D.C., where he handled trial and appellate litigation matters.
Professor Benforado’s scholarship involves applying the insights of social psychology and related fields to law and legal theory. In large part, his work is focused on uncovering how our legal system may reflect unappreciated aspects of our cognitive frameworks and processes, and, as a consequence, how the law may fail to align with our purported values and fail to meet our needs. He is particularly interested in how corporations and other powerful entities exploit psychological proclivities to advance their agendas directly and through the legal system.
His forthcoming work includes articles in the Cardozo Law Review and Indiana Law Journal, and three chapters (co-authored with Jon Hanson) in Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Oxford University Press). Professor Benforado has previously published in the Emory Law Journal (four articles) and Maryland Law Review.
Professor Benforado’s opinion pieces have appeared in a variety of publications including the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Providence Journal, Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Legal Times and Boston Review. He is also a contributor to “The Situationist,” the blog of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School.
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