Jason A Cantone

Adjunct Faculty

Federal courts, legal decision making, legal empirical research, psychology and law, judicial education

Dr. Cantone is a Senior Research Associate at the Federal Judicial Center. His work relates to civil procedure, federal-state court cooperation, legal decision-making, and admissibility of scientific evidence (including AI, neuroscience, statistics, mental health, and DNA evidence).

From 2018 to 2023, Dr. Cantone was an elected member of the Executive Committee of the American Psychology-Law Society and on the Council of Representatives for the American Psychological Association (APA). He currently serves on the APA Committee for the Advancement of General and Applied Psychology.

Selected Publications

For a list of my publications, see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason-Cantone

For our 2024 book on legal decision-making, see:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-psychology-and-legal-decisionmaking/9777295A8EB4117DEFF9E5C468C35777

Expanded Publication List

Cantone. J.A. (2025). Bringing legal psychology into your classroom. Psychology Teacher Network. Available at https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/psychology-teacher-network/introductory-psychology/legal-topics.

Lee, E.G. III & Cantone, J.A. (2024). Default and Default Judgment Practices in the District Courts. Federal Judicial Center. Available at https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/materials/26/FJC_report_Rule_55_February_2024.pdf.

Garri, K.A., Germano, R.P., Cantone, J.A., & Laks, J.E. (2024). Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents. Federal Judicial Center. Available at https://www.fjc.gov/content/387587/unredacted-social-security numbers-federal-court-pacer-documents.

Cantone, J.A., Fogel, J., & Hoopes, M. (2024). Judicial Decision-Making. In M. K. Miller, L. A. Yelderman, M. T. Huss, & J. A. Cantone (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Legal Decision-Making (pp. 49 66). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cantone, J.A. (2023). Federal–State Court Cooperation: Surveys of U.S. District and U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judges and State and Territorial Chief Justices and Court Administrators. Federal Judicial Center. Available at https://www.fjc.gov/content/378684/federal-state-court-cooperation-surveys-us-district-and-us-court-appeals-chief-judges.

Henderson, K. S., Fountain, E. N., Redlich, A. D., & Cantone, J. A. (2023). Judicial Strategies for Evaluating the Validity of Guilty Pleas. Court Review, 59(2), 44-51.

Henderson, K. S., Fountain, E. N., Redlich, A. D., & Cantone, J. A. (2022). Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28(3), 356–373. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000327

Cantone, J.A. & Giffin, C. (2021). Certified Questions of State Law: An Empirical Examination of Use in Three U.S. Courts of Appeal. Toledo Law Review, 53(1), 1-53.

Courses Taught

CRIM 315, Research Methods and Analysis in Criminology

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, B.S. Psychology Honors

University of Nebraska at Lincoln, M.A., J.D., Ph.D.