Jody Lyneé Madeira, J.D., Ph.D. is a Research Associate at the University at Albany’s Capital Punishment Research Initiative (CPRI) and Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Through her research and scholarship, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine a variety of subjects, including the Second Amendment and social and legal regulation of firearms, assisted reproductive technologies; bioethics and informed consent; law and medicine; torts and products liability, and capital punishment. She is the author of Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure (New York University Press, 2012) and Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception(University of California Press, 2018).