Erik Lillquist

Professor R. Erik Lillquist specializes in Intellectual Property and Criminal Law & Procedure

Associate Dean and Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


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Biography & Scholarship
Biography
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Courses & Syllabi
Contracts
(Fall 2006)
Criminal Law
(Section C - Spring 2008)
Criminal Law
(Section M - Spring 2008)
Criminal Procedure
(Fall 2007)
Electronic Commerce
(Fall 2007)
Evidence (Spring 2007)

Law Science & Technology
Biography

Associate Dean Lillquist teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, evidence, contracts, and electronic commerce. His current research interests include the interaction between theories of human-decision making and the legal process, and understanding the implications of biology, medicine and psychology for law.

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. Dean Lillquist joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School in 1999, where he is the Director of the Institute of Law, Science and 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 for Finance and Administration in 2007.


Publications
 
Law Review Articles

Legal Regulation of the Use of Race in Medical Research, 34 J. L. Med. & Ethics 535 (2006) (with Charles Sullivan)

Absolute Certainty and the Death Penalty, 42 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 45 (2005)

False Positives and False Negatives in Capital Cases, 80 Ind. L. J. 49 (2005) (solicited)

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 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, New Haven, CT (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)