Jody L. Madeira
Associate Professor of Law
Office: 249Phone: 812-856-1082
E-mail: jmadeira@indiana.edu
B.A., B.S., 1997, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; M.S., 1999, Georgetown University; J.D., 2003, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Ph.D., 2007, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Clerk, Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2004-2005. Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, 2005-2007. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Madeira joined the Indiana Law faculty in the Fall of 2007. Her primary research interests, the application of collective memory to criminal prosecution and sentencing and law and emotion, reflect the intersection of communication theory and the law. Her current book project explores the ways in which victims' families and survivors came to comprehend and cope with the Oklahoma City bombing through membership in community groups as well as through attendance and participation in Timothy McVeigh's prosecution and execution.
Professor Madeira's other current research projects center upon the effects of capital proceedings and sentences upon victims' families, the role of empathy in personal injury litigation and the impact of recent developments in capital victims' services upon the relationship between victims' families and the criminal justice system. Professor Madeira is also a Research Associate at the Capital Punishment Research Initiative at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York.
After graduating from law school, Professor Madeira clerked for the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She then came to Harvard as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law, where she taught legal research and writing as well as a seminar on the cultural life of capital punishment.
You can view Professor Madeira's research at the Social Science Research Network.
Current curriculum vitae
Courses
- Torts (B531)