Victor D. Quintanilla is a professor of law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, an affiliated professor at the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and a research affiliate of the Equity Accelerator. Quintanilla’s research investigates access to justice and legal education by drawing on theory and methods within the field of social psychology, including experiments conducted with judges, lawyers, law students, and members of the public. He is currently advancing research lines that seek to design scalable psychological interventions that enhance success across legal education. These psychologically attuned interventions promote psychological well-being, including growth mindsets, adaptive stress mindsets, and social belonging, and are coupled with effective study and behavioral strategies. He has presented his research at academic conferences, including the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Conference for Empirical Legal Studies, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Law and Society Association. He served as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2015-2016). Quintanilla’s doctoral research centers on measuring psychological experiences and developing interventions that target both structural affordances and psychological processes to promote success and improve the well-being of vulnerable unrepresented litigants.
