Roseanna Sommers is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan whose teaching and research interests revolve around the many ways in which the law misunderstands people and people misunderstand the law.
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"What Do Consumers Understand About Predispute Arbitration Agreements? An Empirical Investigation"
PLoS ONE
"Giving People the Words to Say No Leads Them to Feel Freer to Say Yes"
Scientific Reports
- Law and Social Sciences
"Consent Searches and Underestimation of Compliance: Robustness to Type of Search, Consequences of Search, and Demographic Sample"
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
- Law and Social Sciences
""Legally Magic" Words: An Empirical Study of the Accessibility of Fifth Amendment Rights"
Northwestern University Law Review