Professor Redding received his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College (with honors), his M.S. from Vanderbilt University, his J.D. (with honors) from Washington and Lee University (where he was the Frances Lewis Law Fellow), and his Ph.D. (in psychology) from the University of Virginia. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Michael W. Farrell at the D.C. Court of Appeals in Washington and practiced law for several years in Virginia. As the Director of the J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology at Villanova and Drexel Universities, Professor Redding also holds an appointment as Research Professor of Psychology at Drexel University.

Prior to joining the Villanova faculty in 2001, Professor Redding was an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught Mental Health Law, Psychiatry and Criminal Law, Law and Psychology, and the Mental Health Law Clinic. He also has been a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia and the University of Malaysia.

Professor Redding conducts research on juvenile justice, forensic issues in criminal law (criminal law and psychology), the use of social science in law and public policy, sociopolitical biases in public policy research, sociopolitical multiculturalism, and the psychology of liberalism and conservatism. He has published over 75 articles and book chapters in leading legal and scientific journals, including the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ROUNDTABLE, the UTAH LAW REVIEW, the VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY AND THE LAW, the WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW, the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY, the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, and publications of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, the MAC ARTHUR FOUNDATION, and U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. He also has co-authored two books.

Professor Redding has received awards for his work from the AMERICAN-PSYCHOLOGY LAW SOCIETY and the SOCIETY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL ISSUES and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. He also has been a reviewer for numerous journals, serves on the editorial boards of the journals CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, YOUTH VIOLENCE AND JUVENILE JUSTICE, and the JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES and is the Associate Editor of the JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE.

In addition to practicing law, Professor Redding has worked as a clinician with children and families at the PATH Community Mental Health Center in Philadelphia, has directed major research and development projects for state and federal government agencies (including the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, the U.S. Air Force and Navy, and the Federal Aviation Administration), has served on juvenile justice task forces for the state of Virginia, and serves as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He also occasionally serves as an expert witness in cases involving juvenile offenders or social science research evidence.

Other Interests and Hobbies:  Polo, Following Politics, Antique Collecting.