Professor Marder joined the faculty of Chicago-Kent in the fall of 1999. She has a
B.A. (summa cum laude) in English and Afro-American studies from Yale College, an M.Ph.
in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Mellon
Fellow, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was articles editor of the Yale Law
Journal. 

Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty, Professor Marder was an associate professor of
law at the University of Southern California Law School, where she taught since 1993.
From 1990 to 1992, she was a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme
Court. She also clerked for Judge William A. Norris on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
(1989-1990) and Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York (1989-1990).
In 1987-88, Professor Marder was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. 

Professor Marder has had articles published in the Northwestern University Law Review,
Iowa Law Review, Texas Law Review and Yale Law Journal. She teaches Civil Procedure and a
course on juries, judges and trials. 

Articles

OpenURL

Jury Reform: The Impossible Dream?, 5 (symposium), Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy (2009)
 

Books

The Jury Process (2005)
 

Contributions to Books

Judging TV Reality Judges (forthcoming), Law and Justice on the Small Screen (2011)
 

Judging Judge Judy, Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (2009)
 

The Myth of the Nullifying Jury, The Right to a Fair Trial (2009)
 

J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994), Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)