Richard A. Leo is the Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University San Francisco School of Law. Dr. Leo is one of the leading experts on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions, and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. Dr. Leo has authored more than 100 articles in leading scientific and legal journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice(Harvard University Press, 2008).Dr. Leo has won numerous individual and career achievement awards for research excellence and distinction and has been the recipient of Soros and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as a Fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 2011 he was elected to the American Law Institute. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal named Dr. Leo as one of the 25 law professors most cited by appellate courts in the United States, he has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times, and his publications have been translated into multiple languages and downloaded over 54,000 times on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).Dr. Leo has been featured and/or quoted in hundreds of stories in national print and electronic media, and he is regularly invited to present training sessions to lawyers, judges, police, forensic psychologists and other criminal justice professionals. Dr. Leo is also often called to advise and assist practicing attorneys and has served as a litigation consultant and/or expert witness in hundreds of criminal and civil cases. In addition to the many high-profile cases involving false confessions in which he has participated, Dr. Leo has also worked on numerous lesser-known cases of coercive interrogation and false confession that did not receive any media attention.