James A. Macleod
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
B.A., University of Michigan
B.A., University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Evidence
Statutory Interpretation
Torts
Evidence
Statutory Interpretation
Torts
Articles & Essays
Standard Textualism, ___ Michigan Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2025)
Evidence Law’s Blind Spots, 109 Iowa Law Review 189 (2023)
Finding Original Public Meaning, 56 Georgia Law Review 1 (2021)
Ordinary Causation: A Study in Experimental Statutory Interpretation, 94 Indiana Law Journal 957 (2019)
Reporting Certainty, 2019 Brigham Young University Law Review 473 (2019)
Belief States in Criminal Law, 68 Oklahoma Law Review 497 (2016)
Contributions to Books
Surveys and Experiments in Statutory Interpretation, in Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence (Kevin Tobia ed., 2023)