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. 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. As the Director of the J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law and Psychology at Villanova and Drexel Universities(formerly MCP-Hahnemann University), Professor Redding also holds an appointment as Research Professor of Psychology at Drexel University.

Professor Redding's research and teaching interests focus on criminal law, juvenile justice, mental health law, the use of social science in law and public policy, and sociopolitical biases in social science. He has published two books and over 75 articles and book chapters on these and related topics in leading legal and scientific journals.