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Eve Brank is a Professor of Psychology and Director at the Center on Children, Families & the Law at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She holds dual doctorates (J.D. and Ph.D.) from UNL’s Law-Psychology Program (2000–2001) and joined the faculty in 2008 after prior roles at the University of Florida’s Department of Criminology, Law and Society. Her research focuses on legal interventions in family decision-making, including parental responsibility laws in juvenile justice systems and elder caregiving legal frameworks. She also examines decision-making in government search practices. Brank leads the Law and Policy Lab and has authored influential works like The Psychology of Family Law (2019), which won the 2021 Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award. Her work intersects psychology, law, and policy, addressing topics such as pretrial publicity effects, police-civilian interactions, and digital surveillance ethics. She collaborates with multidisciplinary teams on projects involving procedural justice, child welfare, and criminal justice reform. Her research has been published in journals like Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, and Scientometrics.
