Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy



Advocacy Fellows

Each year, the Center names a Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy Fellow from among the ranks of non-law faculty.

Fellows bring an interdisciplinary element to the KU Law experience by relating their studies of jury decision-making, forensics or empirical studies of the courts through a series of lectures at KU Law and to the regional bar.

2011-12 Fellow

Tom Beisecker

Inaugural Lecture: "The Role of Narrative in the Courtroom"
4-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 | 106 Green Hall

Second Lecture: "Convenient Courtroom Fictions: How Rules of Evidence Relate to Jurors' Cognitive Behavior"
4-5 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 107 Green Hall

Dr. Tom Beisecker is the inaugural Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy Fellow. Beisecker is a national expert on the empirical study of jury decision-making, how jurors infer missing facts, and how jurors reconcile inconsistent facts when arriving at verdicts. He is also a member of the board of directors of the American Society of Trial Consultants. Beisecker is an associate professor in the communications studies department at the University of Kansas.




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