Professor Macleod arrived at Cardozo in July 2025 from Brooklyn Law School, where he directed the Center for Law, Language, and Cognition, and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Visiting Professor of Law. He has taught classes in evidence, legislation, and torts. 

Macleod’s research is part of the growing interdisciplinary field of experimental jurisprudence, which uses empirical methods from the social sciences to address questions of legal theory. He has written about statutory interpretation theories and methods, as well as evidence and criminal law. 

Before joining the Brooklyn Law faculty in 2019, Macleod was an associate in law at Columbia Law School and a law clerk for the Hon. Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Macleod also practiced law at Gibson Dunn and Williams & Connolly, litigating mass torts and white-collar criminal cases. He earned his J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Kirkland & Ellis scholar, and his B.A. with high distinction from the University of Michigan.

Featured Scholarship

Standard Textualism

124 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)   

Evidence Law's Blind Spots

109 Iowa L. Rev. 189 (2023)

Surveys and Experiments in Statutory Interpretation

Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence (Tobia, ed.) (2023)

Ordinary Causation: A Study in Experimental Statutory Interpretation

94 Ind. L.J. 957 (2019)  

Belief States in Criminal Law

68 Oklahoma Law Review 497 (2016)