Center for State and Local Taxation Center on Social Sciences and the Law The Center on Social Sciences and the law is dedicated to the use of social science research methods to study the impact and effectiveness of law and public policy.
Current research focuses primarily on children, families and the law.
Center Leadership Professor Gail S. Goodman heads the Center on Social Sciences and the Law. She received her doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on various facets of eyewitness testimony, child abuse, and memory. Her work explores theoretical issues concerning memory development and the relationship between emotion and memory. She also focuses on the abilities of both children and adults to provide testimony about events they have experienced or witnessed, especially events relating to child abuse.