Laura Smalarz (Ph.D. 2015, Iowa State University) is a psychology and law researcher with an interest in criminal evidence as it relates to miscarriages of justice. Her primary focus is on eyewitness identification evidence and the conditions under which eyewitness evidence should be relied upon to assess guilt in criminal cases. Her work has been cited in a state Supreme Court case involving eyewitness identification evidence (Com v. Walker, 2014) and she is a member of the Innocence Project’s Research Advisory Board.
