Harvard University, AB 1961, LLB 1964
Office: 22 Cargill Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-4298
Fax: (617) 373-5056
E-mail: d.givelber@neu.edu
Daniel J. Givelber
Professor Givelber served as dean of the law school from 1984 until 1993, and was interim dean during the 1998-1999 academic year. He is an expert in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure and capital punishment, and has been engaged in pro bono death penalty litigation for many years.
Professor Givelber has taught and published primarily in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence and torts. In recent years, his research has focused on the accuracy of the procedures we employ to determine guilt. He is a founding member of the board of the New England Innocence Project and has lectured in his areas of specialization in Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Prior to joining the law school faculty, he served as an assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia and as a civil litigator with a large New York law firm.
- “Public Health vs. Court Sponsored Secrecy” (with Robbins), 69 Law & Contemporary Problems 131, 2006.
- “Junking Good Science: Undoing Daubert v. Merrill Dow Through Cross-Examination and Argument” (with Strickler), 96 American Journal of Public Health 285, 2006.
- “Lost Innocence: Speculation and Data About the Acquitted,” 42 American Criminal Law Review 1167, 2005.
- “Pure Smoke: Products Liability, Innovation, and the Search for the Safe Cigarette,” 7 Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 1, 2005.
- “Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California: The Therapist’s Dilemma” (with Schuck), Torts Stories. Rabin and Sugarman, eds. Foundation Press, 2003.
- “Innocence Abroad: The Extradition Cases and the Future of Capital Litigation,” 81 Oregon Law Review 161, 2002.
- “Meaningless Acquittals, Meaningful Convictions: Do We Reliably Acquit the Innocent?” 49 Rutgers Law Review 17, 1996-1997.
- “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Insanity Defense” (with Applebaum, Grisso, Zoltek-Jick, Silver and Steadman), 150 American Psychiatry 229, 1993.
- “How Did Tarasoff Affect Clinical Practice?” (with Bowers and Blitch), Annals, AAPSS, 484, March 1986.
- “Treating Blacks as if They Were White: Some Problems of Definition and Proof Under Section 1982” (with Brown and Subrin), 124 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1, 1975-1976.
- “Application of Equal Protection Principles to the Selective Enforcement of the Criminal Law,” 1973 University of Illinois Law Forum 88, 1973.
