Samuel R. Gross

Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1987-

Books

• Co-author. A Modern Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, Transcripts, and Cases. 4th ed. R. O. Lempert et al., co-authors. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2011.
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• Co-author. A Modern Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, Transcripts, and Cases. 3rd ed. R. O. Lempert and J. S. Liebman, co-authors. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2000.
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• Co-author. Death and Discrimination: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing. R. Mauro, co-author. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1989.
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Book Chapters

• Co-author. "False Convictions." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, edited by E. Sharif, 163-80. Princeton Univ. Press, 2012.
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• Co-author. "Social Science and the Evolving Standards of Death Penalty Law." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom, edited by E. Borgida and S. T. Fiske, 237-59. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
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• "The Rhetoric of Racial Profiling." In Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives, edited by R. L. Weiner et al., 35-60. New York: Springer Science and Business Media, 2007.
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• "The Death Penalty and Adversarial Justice in the United States." In Adversarial versus Inquisitorial Justice: Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Justice Systems, edited by P. J. van Koppen and S. D. Penrod, 107-17. Perspectives in Law & Psychology, 17. New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2003.
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• Co-author. "Second Thoughts: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty, edited by S. P. Garvey, 7-57. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2003.
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• "Substance and Form in Scientific Evidence: What Daubert Didn't Do." In Reforming the Civil Justice System, edited by L. Kramer. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1996.
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Journal Articles

• "David Baldus and the Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp." Iowa L. Rev. 97, no. 6 (2012): 1906-24.
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• "Pretrial Incentives, Post-Conviction Review, and Sorting Criminal Prosecutions by Guilt or Innocence." N. Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 56, no. 3 (2011-2012): 1009-30.
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• Co-author. "Reply to Richard A. Leo and Jon B. Gould." B. O'Brien, co-author. Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 8, no. 2 (2010): 273-6.
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• Co-author. "Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know So Little, and New Data on Capital Cases." B. O'Brien, co-author. J. Empirical Legal Stud. 5, no. 4 (2008): 927-62.
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• "Convicting the Innocent." Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 4 (2008): 173-92.
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• "Holmes v. South Carolina Upholds Trial by Jury." Crim. Just. 21, no. 4 (2007): 20-3.
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• "Souter Passant, Scalia Rampant: Combat in the Marsh." Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 105, no. 3 (2006): 67-72.
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• "Jurisdictional Competition in Criminal Justice: How Much Does It Really Happen?" Mich. L. Rev. 104, no. 7 (2006): 1725-32.
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• "Exonerations in the United States 1989 Through 2003." K. Jacoby et al., co-authors. J. Crim. L. & Criminology 95, no. 2 (2005): 523-53.
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• "Correcting the Past." Law Quad. Notes 48, no. 2 (2005): 12-3
• Co-author. "What They Say at the End: Capital Victims' Families and the Press (Symposium: Victims and the Death Penalty: Inside and Outside the Courtroom)." D. J. Matheson, co-author. Cornell L. Rev. 88, no. 2 (2003): 486-516.
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• "Review for Error." A. Mathieson, co-author. Law, Prob. & Risk 2, no. 4 (2003): 259-68.
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• Co-author. "Expert Information and Expert Evidence: A Preliminary Taxonomy." J. L. Mnookin, co-author. Seton Hall L. Rev. 34, no. 1 (2003): 141-89.
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• Co-author. "Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway." K. Y. Barnes, co-author. Mich. L. Rev. 101, no. 3 (2002): 653-754.
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• "Racial Profiling under Attack." D. Livingston, co-author. Colum. L. Rev. 102, no. 5 (2002): 1413-38.
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• "Race, Peremptories, and Capital Jury Deliberations." U. Pa. J. Const. L. 3, no. 1 (2001): 283-95.
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• "Detection of Deception: The Case of Handwriting Expertise." Va. L. Rev. 87, no. 8 (2001): 1847-55.
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• "Still Unfair, Still Arbitrary - But Do We Care?" Ohio N. U. L. Rev. 26, no. 3 (2000): 517-27.
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• "Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases." Law Quad. Notes 42, no. 1 (1999): 83-94. (Based on a paper delivered at the National Conference on Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty at Northwestern University Law School in November 1998 and subsequently published under the same title in Law & Contemp. Probs. 61, no. 4 (1998): 125-52.)
• "Living with the Death Penalty." Law Quad. Notes 42, no. 3 (1999): 7
• "We Could Pass a Law...What Might Happen if Contingent Legal Fees Were Banned." DePaul L. Rev. 47, no. 2 (1998): 321-46.
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• "Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal (Symposium: How the Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies of the Modern Capital Sentencing System)." Cornell L. Rev. 83, no. 6 (1998): 1448-75.
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• "Make-Believe: The Rules Excluding Evidence of Character and Liability Insurance (Symposium: Truth and Its Rivals: Evidence Reform and the Goals of Evidence Law)." Hastings L. J. 49, no. 3 (1998): 843-60.
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• "Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases." Law & Contemp. Probs. 61, no. 4 (1998): 125-52.
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• "Law in the Backwaters: A Comment of Mirjan Damaška's Evidence Law Adrift." Hastings L. J. 49, no. 2 (1998): 369-75.
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• Co-author. "Why Civil Cases Go to Trial: Strategic Bargaining and the Desire for Vindication." K. D. Syverud, co-author. Disp. Resol. Mag. 4, no. 2 (1997): 21-4.
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• "Crime, Politics, and Race (Symposium: Justice and the Criminal Justice Process)." Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 20, no. 2 (1997): 405-15.
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• "The Risks of Death: Why Erroneous Convictions are Common in Capital Cases (Symposium: The New York Death Penalty in Context)." Buff. L. Rev. 44, no. 2 (1996): 469-500.
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• "Reply to Daniel Polsby (Symposium: The New York Death Penalty in Context)." Buff. L. Rev. 44, no. 2 (1996): 541-4.
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• Co-author. "Don't Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement." K. D. Syverud, co-author. UCLA L. Rev. 44, no. 1 (1996): 1-64.
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• "The Romance of Revenge: An Alternative History of Jeffrey Dahmer's Trial." Law Quad. Notes 38, no. 1 (1995): 44-51
• Co-author. "Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. J. Soc. Issues 50, no. 2 (1994): 19-52
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• "The Romance of Revenge: Capital Punishment in America." Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 13 (1993): 71-104.
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• "Settling for a Judge: A Comment on Clermont and Eisenberg." Cornell L. Rev. 77 (1992): 1178-87.
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• Co-author. "Getting to No: A Study of Settlement Negotiations and the Selection of Cases for Trial." K. D. Syverud, co-author. Mich. L. Rev. 90 (1991): 319-93.
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• "Expert Evidence." Wis. L. Rev. 1991 (1991): 1113-232.
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• "Clinical Realism: Simulated Hearings Based on Actual Events in Students' Lives." J. Legal Educ. 40 (1990): 321-38.
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• "The American Advantage: The Value of Inefficient Litigation." Mich. L. Rev. 85 (1987): 734-57.
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• "Loss of Innocence: Eyewitness Identification and Proof of Guilt." J. Legal Stud. 16 (1987): 395-453.
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• "Overruled: Jury Neutrality in Capital Cases." Stan. Law. 21, no. 1 (1986): 11-3. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
• "Race and Death: The Judicial Evaluation of Evidence of Discrimination in Capital Sentencing." U. C. Davis L. Rev. 18, no. 4 (1985): 1275-325. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• Co-author. "Patterns of Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparitites in Capital Sentencing and Homicide Victimization." R.Mauro, co-author. Stan. L. Rev. 37, no. 1 (1984): 27-153. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• "Determining the Neutrality of Death-Qualified Juries: Judicial Appraisal of Empirical Data." Law & Hum. Behav. 8 (1984): 7-30. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Reviews

• "Countering Stereotypes." Review of Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting the Myths about Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, and Outrageous Damage Awards, by N. Vidmar. Judicature 81, no. 1 (1997): 36-8.
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Reprints (Articles and other publications reprinted in full and Law Quadrangle)

• Co-author. "Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, edited by H. A. Bedau, 90-115. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. (Originally published under the same title in J. Soc. Issues. 50, no. 2 (1994): 19-52.)
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• Co-author. "Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In Politics, Crime Control and Culture, edited by S. A. Scheingold, 209-42. Aldershot, U. K.: Ashgate, 1997. (Originally published under the same title in J. Soc. Issues 50, no. 2 (1994): 19-52 and reprinted as a book chapter in The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, edited by H. A. Bedau, 90-115. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.)
• "The Tip of the Iceberg: Exonerations in the United States 1989 Through 2003." Law Quad. Notes 47, no. 2 (2004): 48-51. (This article is the executive summary of the study "Exonerations in the United States 1989 through 2003." The full study report can be found at J. Crim. L. & Criminology 95, no. 2 (2005): 523-53.)
• Co-author. "Going to Trial: A Rare Throw of the Die." K. D. Syverud, co-author. Law Quad. Notes 40, no. 1 (1997): 74-86. (Adapted from "Don't Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settelement." UCLA L. Rev. 44, no. 1 (1996): 1-64.)
• Co-author. "Getting to 'No': A Study of Settlement Negotiations and the Selection of Cases for Trial." K. D. Syverud, co-author. Def. L. J. 41 (1992): 377-458.
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Works in Progress & Working Papers

• How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There? Univ. of Michigan Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Reseach Paper Series, no. 316. Working Paper, 2013.​
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• Co-author. The Rate of False Convictions Among Criminal Defendants Who are Sentenced to Death. B. O'Brien, C. Hu, and E. Kennedy, co-authors. Working Paper, 2012.
• Co-author. Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012. M. Shaffer, co-author. Univ. of Michigan Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Reseach Paper Series, no. 277. Working Paper, 2012.
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