Laura Nirider

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Laura Nirider is affiliated with the following schools: Northwestern University , Northwestern University, University of Chicago

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Laura Nirider

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International Law

#1836

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#2173

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Bachelors Psychology Northwestern University

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According to Wikipedia, Laura Nirider is an American attorney and legal scholar working as an associate professor of law and the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. An expert on false confessions, Nirider specializes in representing young people who confessed to crimes they did not commit, and working to reform the process of police interrogation. Nirider's work gained international visibility following her involvement in several high-profile cases involving juvenile confessions. Her clients have included Brendan Dassey, whose case was profiled on the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, and Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, whose case was profiled on the HBO series Paradise Lost and the documentary West of Memphis. She also hosts a podcast on false confessions, entitled Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions.

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Laura Nirider's Published Works

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Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada (2020) (14)
Pragmatic implication in the interrogation room: a comparison of juveniles and adults (2019) (10)
Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth (2010) (8)
Combating Contamination in Confession Cases (reviewing Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong by Brandon L. Garrett) (2012) (4)
IN SEARCH OF "REFINEMENT WITHOUT EXCLUSIVENESS": INCLUSIONARY ZONING IN HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS[dagger] (2008) (2)
Scrutinizing Confessions in a New Era of Juvenile Jurisprudence (2014) (0)
President’s Column: THE RELATIONSHIP OF LEADERSHIP, JUDICIAL EDUCATION, AND JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE (2014) (0)
Gerald Gault meet Brendan Dassey: preventing juvenile false and coerced confessions in the twenty-first century 1 (2018) (0)
The False Confessions of Earl Washington and Robert Davis (2014) (0)
Adjudicated Juveniles and Collateral Relief (2012) (0)
Adjudicated Juveniles and Post-Conviction Litigation (2012) (0)
Interrogative Suggestibility (2021) (0)

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