D. Michael Risinger

Publications

• An Innocence-Centered View of New Jersey’s Post-Conviction Jurisprudence: A Symposium - Introduction to the Symposium with Illustrative Cases, and a List of Factors Contributing to the Problems of New Jersey’s Post-Conviction Procedures
  49 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2025) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2025
• Towards an Innocence-Centered Post‐Conviction Regime in New Jersey
  49 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2025) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2025
• Compensation for the Convicted Innocent in New Jersey: Problems and Recommended Solutions
  49 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2025) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2025
• An Innocence‐Centered View of New Jersey’s Post‐Conviction Jurisprudence: A Symposium - The History of New Jersey’s State Constitutional Guarantee Against Suspension of State Habeas Corpus and Its Unconstitutional Suspension in 2009
  49 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2025) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2025
• Off the Rails: The Surprising Story of Smith v. Rapid Transit, Inc.
  48 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2024) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2024

• Tribute to Professor Paul Giannelli
  68 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 717 (2018) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2018
• The Science and Law Underlying Post-Conviction Challenges to Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions: A Response to Professor Imwinkelried
  48 SETON HALL L. REV. (2018) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2018
• An Introduction to Craig R. Callen’s Spotting a Preponderance of the Evidence in the Wild
  48 SETON HALL L. REV. (2018) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2018
• Leveraging Surprise: What Standards of Proof Imply that We Want from Jurors, and What We Should Say to Them to Get It
  48 SETON HALL L. REV. (2018) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2018
• The Five Functions of Forensic Science and the Validation Issues They Raise: A Piece to Incite Discussion on Validation
  48 SETON HALL L. REV. (2018) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2018
• Searching for Truth in the American Law of Evidence and Proof
  47 GA. L. REV. (2013) · Georgia Law Review · 2013
• Innocence Is Different: Taking Innocence into Account in Reforming Criminal Procedure
  56 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 870 (2012) · NYLS Law Review · 2012
• Inquiry, Relevance, Rules of Exclusion and Evidentiary Reform
  75 BROOK. L. REV. (2010) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2010
• WHOSE FAULT?—DAUBERT, THE NAS REPORT, AND THE NOTION OF ERROR IN FORENSIC SCIENCE
  38 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 519 (2010) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2010
• Tragic Consequences of Deadly Dilemmas: A Response to Allen and Laudan
  40 SETON HALL L. REV. (2010) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2010
• The NAS/NRC Report on Forensic Science: A Path Forward Fraught with Pitfalls
  2010 UTAH L. REV. (2010) · Utah Law Review · 2010

• The Inaugural Wigmore Awards for Lifetime Achievements in the Area of the Law of Evidence and the Process of Proof: Introduction
  38 SETON HALL L. REV. (2008) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2008
• Guilt vs. Guiltiness: Are the Right Rules for Trying Factual Innocence Inevitably the Wrong Rules for Trying Culpability?: Introduction
  38 SETON HALL L. REV. (2008) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2008
• Innocents Convicted: An Empirical Justified Factual Wrongful Conviction Rate
  97 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 761 (2007) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2007
• The Irrelevance, and Central Relevance, of the Boundary between Science and Non-Science in the Evaluation of Expert Witness Reliability
  52 VILL. L. REV. 679 (2007) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 2007
• Kumho Tire and Expert Reliability: How the Question You Ask Gives the Answer You Get
  34 SETON HALL L. REV. (2003) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2003
• Three Card Monte, Monty Hall, <i>Modus Operandi</i> and "Offender Profiling": Some Lessons of Modern Cognitive Science for the Law of Evidence
  24 CARDOZO L. REV. 193 (2002) · Cardozo Law Review · 2002
• The Daubert/Kumho Implications of Observer Effects in Forensic Science: Hidden Problems of Expectation and Suggestion
  90 CAL. L. REV. 1 (2002) · California Law Review · 2002
• Preliminary Thoughts on a Functional Taxonomy of Expertise for the Post-Kumho World
  31 SETON HALL L. REV. (2000) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2000
• Defining the."Task at Hand": Non-Science Forensic Science After Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  57 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 767 (2000) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2000

• Brave New "Post-Daubert World" - A Reply to Professor Moenssens
  29 SETON HALL L. REV. (1998) · Seton Hall Law Review · 1998
• John Henry Wigmore, Johnny Lynn Old Chief, and "Legitimate Moral Force" - Keeping the Courtroom Safe for Heartstrings and Gore
  49 UC L.J. 403 (1998) · UC Law Journal · 1998

• Exorcism of Ignorance as a Proxy for Rational Knowledge: The Lessons of Handwriting Identification Expertise
  137 U. PENN. L. REV. 731 (1989) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1989
• Direct Damages: The Lost Key to Constitutional Just Compensation When Business Premises Are Condemned
  15 SETON HALL L. REV. (1985) · Seton Hall Law Review · 1985

• Book Review
  9 SETON HALL L. REV. (1978) · Seton Hall Law Review · 1978
• Honesty in Pleading and Its Enforcement: Some Striking Problems with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
  61 MINN. L. REV. 1 (1976) · Minnesota Law Review · 1976

• Presumptions, Assumptions, and Due Process in Criminal Cases: A Theoretical Overview
  79 YALE L.J. 165 (1969) · Yale Law Journal · 1969