Nick Schweitzer is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.

Schweitzer’s research focuses on the empirical study of the law and legal system, with a primary emphasis on how science (medical experiments, forensic science, neuroscience, etc) is used by the judicial system.

Schweitzer is director and a founding member of the ASU program on law and behavioral science, a faculty fellow in the Center for Law, Science, and Innovation at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, a fellow of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, and an affiliated faculty member in ASU's School for the Future of Innovation in Society. 

Schweitzer’s research has been published in both law and psychology journals, and has been cited by the National Academy of Sciences and various U.S. federal and state courts. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the American Psychology-Law Society. Dr. Schweitzer teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses in empirical research methodology and statistical analysis, and has received two university-wide teaching awards.