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Professor Alan Tomkins is an editor for Court Review. He is the first non-judge to serve as an editor of Court Review. Professor Tomkins is the Director of the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center (appointed as its inaugural director in July 1998) and professor of psychology and law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[CR-LF][CR-LF]From 1989-2001, Tomkins served as co-Editor and then Editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Behavioral Sciences & the Law . Prior to joining the University in the fall of 1986, he served as a research associate with the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC, and as a faculty member in departments of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (visiting) and St. Louis University (research). Professor Tomkins also has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Southampton (England) and as a Visiting Scholar of Psychology at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). [CR-LF][CR-LF]From August 2005-July 2006, Professor Tomkins was one of two inaugural William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellows at the University of Arkansas School of Public Service. He is a Fellow of the American-Psychology Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association) and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association).[CR-LF][CR-LF]Professor Tomkins received a bachelor's degree from Boston University (1975) with a joint major in Psychology and Philosophy. He earned a J. D. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984.

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