Dr. Jody Lynee Madeira is Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She is an international expert on several topics including fertility fraud, law and medicine, bioethics, reproductive rights, firearms law/Second Amendment, family law, torts, and products liability. Dr. Madeira is the author/editor of three books: Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure (New York University Press, 2012), Taking Baby Steps: How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception (University of California Press, 2018), and a co-editor of The Edward Elgar Handbook of Law and Emotion (Edward Elgar, 2021). Dr. Madeira holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School; and an M.S. in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University.