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Lauren Clatch

Assistant Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile
    Professor Clatch teaches and researches in the areas of criminal law and procedure. Prior to joining Richmond Law, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at the Duke University School of Law. There, her work focused on assessing Miranda’s custody requirement by comparing judicial and lay perceptions of police coercion. Before joining the Wilson Center, Professor Clatch clerked for the Hon. Carolyn King on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Broadly, her scholarship relies on psychological theory and quantitative methods with the aim of developing richer and more realistic accounts of human behavior in legal contexts. Her current research projects include the study of police interrogations and plea bargaining.
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    • Presentations

      "CrimFest, Paper Presentation, Interrogating Miranda’s Custody Requirement," (July 2023)

      "The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems: “Errors in Criminal Justice Systems,” Paper Presentation, Feelings of Freedom: Miranda’s Custody Requirement," (April 2023)

      "Social Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Poster Presentation, Modeling Predictors of Legal Professionals’ Pro Bono Work, Rafael Aguilera, Lauren Clatch, and Mark Snyder," (June 2019)

      "Social Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Poster Presentation, Using Volunteerism Framework for Predicting Legal Professionals’ Pro Bono Behavior, Lauren Clatch, Rafael Aguilera, and Mark Snyder," (June 2019)

      "American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Paper Presentation, Probability and Delay Discounting: A Promising Application to Plea Bargain Decision-Making, Lauren Clatch & Eugene Borgida," (March 2018)

      "American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Attendee," (March 2017)

      "Law and Society Association Conference, Paper Presentation, Decision-Making in Plea Bargaining: A Psychological Perspective, Eugene Borgida, Lauren Clatch, and JaneAnne Murray," (June 2016)

      "Social Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Free Speech Panel, Just Words: Law, Psychology, and Limitations on “Free” Speech, Organizer of Panelists Heidi Kitrosser, Howard Levine, and Pierce Ekstrom," (June 2016)

      "Social Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Attendee," (June 2015)

      "Social Psychological Study of Social Issues Legislative Engagement Day, Participant," (June 2015)

      "American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Poster Presentation, Co-Author," (March 2015)

    • Bar Admissions

      Minnesota

    • Professional Experience

      Assistant Professor of Law (2024 - present)
      University of Richmond School of Law

      Post Doctoral Fellow (2022 - 2024)
      Duke Law School, Durham, NC

      Clerk to the Honorable Carolyn D. King (2021 - 2022)
      U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Houston, TX

      Extern (2018 - 2018)
      University of Minnesota Law School

      Summer Intern (2018 - 2018)
      United States Attorney’s Office, Minneapolis, MN

      Judicial Extern (2016 - 2016)
      United States District Court for the District of Minnesota

  • Publications
    Journal Articles

    The Reasonableness of Judicial Assessments of Custodial Interrogations, Judicature (with A. Weiss-Gammel) (2025).

    Interrogating Miranda’s Custody Requirement, North Carolina Law Review (2024).

    Behavioral Economics in Plea-Bargain Decision-Making: Beyond the Shadow-of-Trial Model., 17 Review of Law & Economics 349 (with E. Borgida) (2021).

    Plea Bargaining: A Test of Dual Discounting Preferences for Non-Monetary Losses, 47 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 1039 (with E. Borgida) (2021).

    How interdisciplinary? Taking stock of decision-making research at the intersection of psychology and law, 71 Annual Review of Psychology 541 (with A. Walters et al.) (2020).

    Key stakeholder perceptions of the law of genomics: Identified problems & potential solutions, 48 Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 87 (with F. Cheung et al.) (2020).

    Unjust Timing Limitations in Genetic Malpractice Cases, 83 Albany Law Review 61 (with G. Marchant et al.) (2019).

    Childhood adverse events and adult physical and mental health: A national study, 23 Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research 40 (with A. Rosinski et al.) (2018).

    Connecting Two Disparate Literatures to Test the Shadow-of-Trial Model in Plea Bargaining, 102 Minnesota Law Review 923 (2017).

    Cases

    North Carolina Template Motion to Suppress Confession Evidence, (with L. Bass-Patel) (2024).

    Blog Posts

    Inclusive Communities and the Question of Impact: Pro Plaintiff?, 101 Minnesota Law Review De Novo (2016).