James Anderson

James M. Anderson is Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research spans civil and criminal justice, including tort law, insurance, courts, sentencing, and indigent defense, and he has led RAND's work on the policy implications of autonomous vehicles; he is the lead author of Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Guide for Policymakers. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Stanford Law Review, among others, and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. He is a member of the American Law Institute. Before joining RAND, he clerked for Judge Morton I. Greenberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and spent ten years as an assistant federal defender representing capital defendants. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale University.