Erik Lillquist
Senior Associate Dean & Professor of Law
Associate Dean Lillquist teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, intellectual property, contracts, and electronic commerce. Dean Lillquist has been very active in efforts to improve the operation of the criminal justice system, writing extensively on the topic. He also testified before the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission. He also wrote the implication of technology and biology for medicine and commerce. Most recently, he has published on the implication of government regulation on networked technologies.
Dean Lillquist received his B.S. in Biology and B.A. in History from Stanford University in 1989, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1995. At Virginia, he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review. After law school, Dean Lillquist clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then joined the firm of Lankler, Siffert & Wohl, where he specialized in criminal defense and civil litigation.
Dean Lillquist joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School in 1999. From 2001 to 2009, he was the Director of The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology. In the Fall of 2004, Dean Lillquist visited at the University of Minnesota School of Law. He was named a Dean's Fellow at Seton Hall in 2005, and Associate Dean in 2007.
Publications
Law Review Articles
Improving Accuracy in Criminal Cases, 41 U. Rich. L. Rev. 897 (2007) (solicited)
Absolute Certainty and the Death Penalty, 42 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 45 (2005)
The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine, 39 Harv. C.R.-C.L.L. Rev. 391 (2004) (with Charles Sullivan)
The Puzzling Return of Jury Sentencing: Misgivings About Apprendi, 82 N.C.L. Rev. 621 (2004) (cited in Blakely v. Washington, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004) (Breyer, J., dissenting))
A Comment on the Admissibility of Forensic Evidence, 33 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1189 (2003) (solicited)
Recasting Reasonable Doubt: The Virtues of Variability, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 85 (2002) (winner in Criminal Law category at The Stanfor/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (2002))
Constitutional Rights at the Junction: The Emergence of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and the Interstate Commerce Act, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1989 (1995)
Law Journal Article
Legal Regulation of the Use of Race in Medical Research, 34 J. L. Med. & Ethics 535 (2006) (with Charles Sullivan)
False Positives and False Negatives in Capital Cases, 80 Ind. L. J. 49 (2005) (solicited)