Maggie Wittlin
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law
Cultural Cognition Projects
What Causes Polarization on IP Policy? (work in progress) (with Lisa Larrimore Ouellette & Gregory Mandel)
The Results of Deliberation, 15 U.N.H. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2016)
Several Cultural Cognition studies have demonstrated that cultural values influence individual jurors' factual findings. This project develops a computer model that expands those findings from individual jurors to juries, showing when group deliberation exacerbates or mitigates the effects of cultural cognition. Using a deliberation model developed by Robert MacCoun, I specify the demographic or cultural composition of a venire and simulate jury verdicts in different cases.
The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks, 2 Nature Climate Change 732 (2012) (with Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman & Gregory Mandel)
Other Publications
Hindsight Evidence, 116 Colum. L. Rev. 1323 (2016)
Entering the Innovation Twilight Zone: How Patent and Antitrust Law Must Work Together, 17 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 517 (2015) (with Jeffrey I.D. Lewis)
Note, Buckling Under Pressure: An Empirical Test of the Expressive Effects of Law, 28 Yale J. on Reg 419 (2011)
Shorter Works, Including Science Writing
If High Court Reverses Teva, Litigation Costs May Increase, Law360, (Oct. 15, 2014, 8:37 PM) (with Irena Royzman & Aron Fischer).
Science and Democracy, Seed Magazine, January/February 2008.
Seeing the Unseeable, Seed Magazine, July/August 2007.
Dead Bacteria Walking, seedmagazine.com, Oct. 20, 2006.
Looking Away May Help You Face Mental Challenges, seedmagazine.com Sep. 14, 2006.
Acting Under Surveillance, seedmagazine.com, July 19, 2006.
The Universe Before It Began, seedmagazine.com, May 22, 2006.
Is the Universe Older Than We Thought?, seedmagazine.com, May 10, 2006.
Contests I've Won
Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest (now two, three, four, five times)
The Green Bag's Weekly Lunchtime Law Quiz
Mental Floss's How Did You Know?
...and of course, MAPKIA!
Education
Yale Law School, J.D. 2011
Yale College, B.S. (physics) 2005
Experience
Associate in Law
Columbia Law School (2014-16)
Associate
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (2013-14)
Law Clerk
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2012-13)
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2011-12)
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