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Richard Leo

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Richard A. Leo
Born
Richard Angelo Leo
Known forResearch on police interrogations and false confessions
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisPolice Interrogation in America: A Study of Violence, Civility and Social Change (1994)
Doctoral advisorJerome Skolnick
Academic work
DisciplineLaw professor
Sub-disciplineCriminal law
InstitutionsUniversity of San Francisco School of Law

Richard A. Leo is the Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and a Fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He previously taught at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1994 to 1997 and at the University of California, Irvine from 1997 to 2006. He is known for his research on police interrogation practices, false confessions, and wrongful convictions.[1] He was elected as a Guggenheim fellow in 2011[2] and was a fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2014 to 2015.[3]

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  1. ^ "Richard A. Leo". University of San Francisco. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  2. ^ "Richard A. Leo". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. ^ "Richard Leo". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
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