Faculty Profiles
general • courses • teaching evaluations • cv • publications
Robert MacCoun
Title: Professor of Law and Public Policy
Office: 488 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-642-8291
Fax: 510-642-2951
Email Address: rmaccoun@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Margo Rodriguez
Robert MacCoun, a psychologist, joined the faculty of UC Berkeley's School of Public Policy in 1993 and the Boalt faculty in 1999. From 1986 to 1993 he was a behavioral scientist at The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan private research institution. He has published many studies of jury decision making, alternative dispute resolution, illicit drug dealing, alternative drug laws, harm reduction, gays and lesbians in the military, media biases, and bias in the use and interpretation of research evidence. He is on the National Academy of Sciences committee on drug policy research and analysis, and in 1999 he was a visiting professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
MacCoun's recent publications include Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places (with P. Reuter, Cambridge University Press, 2001); "The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the 21st Century," a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (guest editor, 2002); and "Symbolism and Incommensurability in Civil Sanctioning: Decision-Makers as Goal Managers," Brooklyn Law Review (with J. Robbennolt and J. Darley).
Education:
B.A., Kalamazoo College (1980)M.A., Michigan State University (1983)
Ph.D., Michigan State University (1984)
