# Roseanna Sommers Assistant Professor of Law University of Michigan ![Sommers](/sites/g/files/omnuum4141/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/historicizingconsent/files/sommers_head_shot_-_roseanna_sommers.jpg?itok=HpdPrghE) email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/roseanna-sommers) laptop\_windows [Publication](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CYv4QQ_aKe9w4ty0RErj2U4Sojd8r0uP) Professor Roseanna Sommers's teaching and research interests revolve around the many ways in which the law misunderstands people and people misunderstand the law. Professor Sommers's research examines people's intuitions about legal concepts such as consent, autonomy, and moral responsibility. Her work is part of a growing interdisciplinary field known as experimental jurisprudence, which borrows empirical techniques from the social sciences to clarify core concepts in the law. Her work asks questions like: How do people determine whether someone is acting voluntarily? How do we think about interferences to autonomy, such as coercion, deception, incapacity, and manipulation? Are our legal doctrines defensible in light of empirical insights from the social and cognitive sciences? Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has been published or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science.