Profile

Biography:
A.B./A.M./Ph.D., Harvard University
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Blumenthal teaches and writes in the areas of property law and law and the social sciences, incorporating empirical research and data into legal issues. His work explores decision-making by judges and juries, paternalism, the reasonable woman standard, victim impact statements, behavioral law and economics, emotions in the legal system, and lay perceptions of crime. Recent publications focus on integrating empirical psychological research into property law; reviewing the field of law and emotions; and speculating about the implications of treating lawsuits as private property.  He is also a co-editor of the treatise Modern Scientific Evidence. 

Professor Blumenthal earned his A.B., A.M., and Ph. D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. He earned his Juris Doctor and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and received several writing prizes. While at Syracuse he has visited at Cornell Law School and the University of Connecticut School of Law.  Before teaching at SUCOL, he was a Faculty Fellow at Seton Hall Law School, teaching 1L Property and Law and the Social Sciences.

Previously, he clerked for the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and was an Associate with Latham & Watkins, LLP, in the Newark, NJ office.

Courses:
LAW 719:Law and Psychology
LAW 858:Property Law in the 21st Century: Advanced Topics in Property Law
LAW 882:Judicial Decision Making

Publications:

Jeremy A. Blumenthal & Terry L. Turnipseed, The Polling Place Priming (PPP) Effect: Is Voting in Churches (or Anywhere Else) Unconstitutional?, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 561-599 (2011).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Property Law: A Cognitive Turn, 17 Psychonomic Bull. & Rev. 186-191 (2010).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, A Moody View of the Law: Looking Back and Looking Ahead at Law and the Emotions, in Emotion and the Law: Psychological Perspectives, 56 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 185-210 (Brian H. Bornstein & Richard L. Wiener eds., 2010).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Affective Forecasting and Capital Sentencing: Reducing the Impact of Victim Impact Statements, 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 107-125 (2009).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Meera Adya, & Jacqueline Mogle, The Multiple Dimensions of Privacy: Testing Lay “Expectations of Privacy,” 11 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 331-373 (2009).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, “To Be Human”: A Psychological Perspective on Property Law, 83 Tulane L. Rev. 609-644 (2009).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Introduction to Symposium on Property and Psychology, 83 Tulane L. Rev. 601-608 (2009).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Legal Claims as Private Property: Implications for Eminent Domain, 36 Hastings Con. L.Q. 373-423 (2009).

 

Peter H. Huang & Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Positive Policy/Positive Institutions, in Handbook of Positive Psychology 589-597 (C.R. Snyder & Shane J. Lopez eds., 2^nd ed., 2009).

 

Peter H. Huang & Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Positive Law and Policy, in Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology 730-733 (Shane J. Lopez ed., 2009).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Implicit Theories and Capital Sentencing: An Experimental Study, 59 Syr. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Nina A. Kohn & Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Designating Health-Care Decision-Makers for Patients without Advance Directives: A Psychological Critique, 42 Ga. L. Rev. 979-1018 (2008).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Abortion, Persuasion, and Emotion: Implications of Social Science Research on Emotion for Reading Casey, 83 Wash. L. Rev. 1-38 (2008).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Emotional Paternalism, 35 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1-72 (2007).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Meta-Analysis: A Primer for Legal Scholars, 80 Temple L. Rev. 201-244 (2007).

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Perceptions of Crime: A Multidimensional Analysis with Implications for Law and Psychology, 38 McGeorge L. Rev. 629-651 (2007).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Law and the Emotions: The Problems of Affective Forecasting, 80 Indiana L.J. 155-238 (2005).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Does Mood Influence Moral Judgment? An Empirical Test With Legal and Policy Implications, 29 Law & Psychol. Rev. 1-28 (2005).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Who Decides? Privileging Public Sentiment about Justice and the Substantive Law, 72 UMKC L. Rev. 1-21 (2003).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Law and Social Science in the Twenty-First Century, 12 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 1-53 (2002).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, The Admissibility of Victim Impact Statements at Capital Sentencing: Traditional and Non-Traditional Perspectives, 50 Drake L. Rev. 67-91 (2001).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Shedding Some Light on Calls for Hearsay Reform: Civil Law Hearsay Rules in Historical and Modern Perspective, 13 Pace Int’l L. Rev. 93-116 (2001).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Comment, Reading the Text of the Confrontation Clause: “To Be” or Not “To Be”? , 3 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 722-749 (2001).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, The Reasonable Woman Standard: A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Differences in Perceptions of Sexual Harassment, 22 Law & Hum. Behav. 33-57 (1998) (peer reviewed journal).

 

Jeremy Blumenthal, Bright, Bad, Babyfaced Boys: Appearance Stereotypes Do Not Always Yield Self Fulfilling Prophecies, 75 J. Personality & Soc. Psychol. 1300-1320 (1998) (peer reviewed journal) (with Leslie A. Zebrowitz et al.).

 

Jeremy A. Blumenthal, A Wipe of the Hands, A Lick of the Lips: The Validity of Demeanor Evidence in Assessing Witness Credibility, 72 Neb. L. Rev. 1157-1204 (1993).