Area of Expertise: Transracial adoption, history of women's rights, abortion, rape, women and crime, civil rights and liberties in Israel, U.S. immigration, jury system, insanity defense, death penalty, impact of mass media on public opinion

Additional Information: Rita Simon, University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and AU’s Washington College of Law, is a well-known authority on transracial and intercountry adoption, immigration, justice and women’s issues. She also writes and comments extensively for major media about the U.S. jury system, the insanity defense, social and political issues, and human rights conditions in the prisons of Israel. Simon is the author or editor of 63 books, includingIn Their Own Voices; The Case for Transracial Adoption; The Jury System: Its Role in American Society; The Insanity Defense; The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion, and Immigration; Adoption, Race, and Identity; Women’s Movements in America; Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, and Thieves: Women’s Roles in America; The World Over: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment; Immigration: The World Over; and The Crime Women Commit and the Punishments They Receive. She is also the editor of Gender Issues and has served on the Title IX commission. She has been quoted often by media outlets such as the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC News, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post.

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