Bibliography

Neil Vidmar

Books

American Juries: The Verdict (Prometheus Books, 2007) (with Valerie P. Hans)
Judging the Jury (1986, 2d ed. 2001) (with V. Hans).
World Jury Systems (2000) (ed.).
Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting The Myths About Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, And Outrageous Damage Awards (1995).
Privacy and Two-Way Cable Television: A Study of Canadian Public Opinion (1983).
Psychology and the Law: Research Frontiers (1976) (ed. with G. Bermant & C. Nemeth).
Role Assignment and Attitudinal Commitment as Factors in Negotiation (1965) (with J. McGrath).

Articles and Essays

Most Claims Settle: Implications for Alternative Dispute Resolution from a Profile of Medical Malpractice Claims in Florida, 73 Law & Contemporary Problems 103-133 (Summer 2011) (with Mirya Holman & Paul Lee)
The Canadian Criminal Jury, 86 Chicago-Kent Law Review 497-535 (2011) (with Regina Schuller)
The Psychology of Trial Judging, 20 Current Directions in Psychological Science 58-62 (2011)
Justice Perspectives in South Africa’s Continuing Transition to Democracy, Law & Politics Book Review (February 28, 2010) (reviewing, James L. Gibson, Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa (2009))
Lay Decision-Makers in the Legal Process, in The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research 625-651 (Peter Cane & Herbert M. Kirtzer eds., 2010)
Rethinking Reliance on Eyewitness Confidence, 94 Judicature 16-19 (July-August 2010) (with James E. Coleman, Jr. & Theresa A. Newman)
The Frequency, Predictability, and Proportionality Of Jury Awards Of Punitive Damages In State Courts In 2005: A New Audit, 43 Suffolk University Law Review 855-885 (2010) (with Mirya Holman)
Comment: Juries and Testimony from Medical Experts, in John Spandorfer et al., Professionalism in Medicine: The Case-Based Guide for Medical Students 403-405 (2009)
Foreword, to Magrit Oswald et al., The Social Psychology of the Punishment of Crime (Wiley, 2009)
Foreword: Conventions in Science and Law, 72 Law & Contemporary Problems i-v (Winter 2009) (with David Michaels)
Juries and Medical Malpractice Claims: Empirical Facts versus Myths, 467 Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research 367-375 (2009)
Jury Trials: In Favor, 14 eJournal USA 18-22 (U.S. State Department, July 2009)
Punitive Damages, 5 Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 179-199 (2009) (with M.W.Wolfe)
Civil Juries in Ecological Context: Methodological Implications for Research, in Civil Juries and Civil Justice: Psychological and Legal Perspectives 35-65 (Brian H. Bornstein et al. eds., 2008)
Fairness Through Guidance: Jury Instruction on Punitive Damages After Phillip Morris v. Williams, 2 Charleston Law Review 307-325 (2008) (with Matthew W. Wolfe) reprinted in, Punitive Damages: New Dimensions (M.N. Bhavani ed., Amicus Books 2008)
The Verdict on Juries 91 Judicature 226-230 (March-April 2008) (with Valerie P. Hans)
Affidavit submitted in Fowler v. Dowland, No. S07A0342 (Supreme Court of Georgia, March 29, 2007)
Amicus Brief on behalf of Respondent in Mason. v. Home Hardware, No. S07A1486 (Supreme Court of Georgia, December 2007)
Was He Guilty as Charged? An Alternative Narrative Based on the Circumstantial Evidence From 12 Angry Men, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 691-710 (2007) (with Sara Sun Beale, Erwin Chemerinsky & James E. Coleman, Jr.)
"Judicial Hellholes:" Medical Malpractice Claims, Verdicts, and the "Doctor Exodus" in Illinois, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 1309-1342 (2006) (with Kara MacKillop)
Brief of Neil Vidmar et al. Amici Curiae in support of Respondent, Phillip Morris, Phillip Morris USA v. Williams, 127 S.Ct. 1057 (2007)
Medical Malpractice Litigation and Tort Reform in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2006)
Million Dollar Medical Malpractice Cases in Florida: Post-Verdict and Pre-Suit Settlements, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 1343-1381 (with Kara MacKillop & Paul Lee)
Trial By Jury Involving Persons Accused of Terrorism or Supporting Terrorism, in Law & Psychology 318-337 (Belinda Brooks-Gordon & Michael Freeman eds., 2006)
When Jurors Talk About Their Verdict, in Jury Ethics: Juror Conduct and Jury Dynamics 237-245 (John Kleinig & James P. Levine eds., 2006)
Expert Evidence, The Adversary System, and the Jury, 95 American Journal of Public Health S137-S143 (Suppl. 1, July 2005) reprinted in, Expert Opinion: Evidentiary Value (V. Raghuram ed., Amicus Books, 2007)
Juries Around the Globe, 5 Insights on Law & Society 7-10 (Winter 2005)
Medical Malpractice and the Tort System in Illinois: Report to the Illinois State Bar Association (Report to the Illinois State Bar Association, May, 2005)
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits: An Essay on Patient Interests, The Contingency Fee System and Social Policy, 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1221-1271 (2005)
Uncovering the 'Invisible' Profile of Medical Malpractice Litigation: Insights from Florida, 54 DePaul Law Review 315-354 (2005) (with others)
Experimental Simulations and Tort Reform: Avoidance, Error and Overreaching in Sunstein et al.’s 'Punitive Damages', 53 Emory Law Journal 1359-1403 (2004).
Jurors and Juries, in Blackwell Companion to Law and Society 195-211 (Austin Sarat ed., 2004) (with Valerie P. Hans).
The Amercian Civil Jury for Ausländer (Foreigners), 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 95-120 (2003). Special Issue in honor of Herbert L. Bernstein.
Asserted But Unproven: A Further Response to the Lindgren Study's Claim that the American Bar Association's Ratings of Judicial Nominees Are Biased, 19 Journal of Law & Politics 177-202 (2003) (with Michael J. Saks).
Inside the Jury Room: Evaluating Juror Discussions During Trial, 87 Judicature 54- 58 (Sept-Oct, 2003) (with Shari Diamond, Mary Rose, Leslie Ellis, and BethMurphy).
Juror Discussions During Civil Trials: Studying an Arizona Innovation, 45 Arizona Law Review 1-82 (2003).
When All of Us Are Victims: Juror Prejudice and 'Terrorist' Trials, 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1143-1178 (2003).
The Bronx "Bronx Jury": A Profile of Civil Jury Awards In New York Counties, 80 Texas Law Review 1889-98 (2002) (with Mary R. Rose).
Case Studies of Pre-and Mid-trial Prejudice in Criminal and Civil Litigation, 26 Law & Hum. Behav. 73 (2002).
Juries and Lay Assessors in the Commonwealth: A Contemporary Survey, 13 Criminal Law Forum 385-407 (2002).
Legal Perceptions of Science and Expert Knowledge, 8 Psychology, Public Policy & Law 139 (2002) (with Joseph Sanders and Shari Diamond).
Listening to Jurors and Asking Them Questions, Trial Briefs, August 2002, at 9.
Retributive Justice: Its Social Context, in The Justice Motive in Everyday Life 291 (2002) (M. Ross and D.T. Miller, eds.).
Juries, in 2 Legal Systems of the World 800 (2002) (Herbert M. Kritzer ed.).
A Flawed Search for Bias in the American Bar Association's Ratings of Judicial Nominees: A Critique of the Lindgren / Federalist Society Study, 17 Journal of Law & Politics (2001) (with Michal J. Saks).
Review of Jury Systems Abroad Can Provide Helpful Insights into American Practices, 73 N.Y. St. B.J 23 (2001).
Juries and Expert Evidence, 66 Brook. L. Rev. 1123 (2001) (with Shari Seidman Diamond).
Jury Room Ruminations on Forbidden Topics, 87 Va. L. Rev. 1857 (2001) (with Shari Seidman Diamond).
Punitive Damages by Juries in Florida: In Terrorem and In Reality, 38 Harv. J. on Legis. 487 (2001).
Juries and Expert Evidence, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 1121-1180 (2000) (with Shari Seidman Diamond).
The Origin and Outcome of an Amicus Brief, in Kumho Tire v. Carmichael (1999), 24 Law & Hum. Behav. 383 (2000).
Retribution, in Justice and Legal Institutions (Joseph Sanders & V. Lee Hamilton eds., 2000).
Juries Don't Make Legal Decisions! and Other Problems: A Critique Of Hastie et al. on Punitive Damages, 23 Law & Hum. Behav. 705 (1999).
Maps, Gaps, Socio-legal Scholarship and the Tort Reform Debate, in Social Science, Social Policy and the Law 170 (A. Sarat et al. eds., 1999).
Foreword: The Common Law Jury, Law & Contemp. Probs., Spring 1999, at 1.
The Canadian Criminal Jury: Searching for a Middle Ground, Law & Contemp. Probs., Spring 1999, at 141.
Jury Awards for Medical Malpractice and Post-Verdict Adjustments of Those Awards, 48 DePaul L. Rev. 265 (1998) (with Felicia Gross and Mary Rose).
The Performance of the American Civil Jury: An Empirical Perspective, 40 Ariz. L. Rev. 849 (1998).
Generic Prejudice and the Presumption of Guilt in Sex Abuse Trials, 21 Law & Hum. Behav. 5 (1997).
Should We Rush to Reform the Criminal Jury? Consider Conviction Rate Data?, 80 Judicature 286 (1997) (with others).
Pretrial Prejudice in Canada: A Comparative Perspective on the Criminal Jury, 79 Judicature 249 (1996).
How Many Words for a Camel? A Perspective on Judicial Evaluation of Social Science Evidence, in Filtering and Anaylzing Evidence in an Age of Diversity (1995).
The Impact of Pretrial Publicity on Jurors: A Study to Compare the Relative Effects of Television and Print Media in a Child Sex Abuse Case, 18 Law & Hum. Behav. 507 (1994) (with James R. P. Ogloff).
Pap and Circumstance: What Jury Verdict Statistics Tell Us About Jury Behavior and the Tort System, 28 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 1205 (1994).
Are Juries Competent to Decide Liability in Tort Cases Involving Scientific/Medical Issues? Some Data from Medical Malpractice, 43 Emory L.J. 885 (1994).
Making Inferences about Jury Behavior from Jury Verdict Statistics: Cautions about the Lorelei's Lied, 18 Law & Hum. Behav. 599 (1994).
Damage Awards and Jurors' Responsibility Ascriptions in Medical Versus Automobile Negligence Cases, 12 Behav. Sci & L. 149 (1994) (with others).
An Antidote to Anecdotes, 77 Judicature 330 (1994) (reviewing, Frank A. Sloan, et al., Suing for Medical Malpractice (1993))
Assessments of Non-Economic Damage Awards in Medical Negligence: A Comparison of Jurors with Legal Professionals, 78 Iowa L. Rev. 883 (1993) (with Jeffrey J. Rice).
The "Culture of Battering" and the Role of Mediation in Domestic Violence Cases, 46 SMU L. Rev. 2117 (1993) (with others).
Empirical Evidence on the "Deep Pockets" Hypothesis: Jury Awards for Pain and Suffering in Medical Malpractice Cases, 43 Duke L.J. 217 (1993).
The Reversal Arbitration Board: An ADR Model for Resolving Intra-Corporate Disputes, 1994 J. Disp. Resol. 93 (with Shari Diamond, Mary Rose, Leslie Ellis, and BethMurphy).
Procedural Justice and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 3 Psych. Sci. 224 (1992).
The Unfair Criticism of Medical Malpractice Juries, 76 Judicature 118 (1992), reprinted in 27 Trial Law. F. 5 (1993) and in Trial Talk, June 1993, at 18, and in Trial Law. Q., Summer 1993, at 9.
Toyota's Arbitration Board: A Conflict Resolution Model for Intra-Corporate Disputes, 11 Alternatives 44 (1993) (with others).
Verfahrensgerechtigkeit und Alternative Konfliktbewaltigung, Zeitschrift fur Rechts-Soziologie, June 1993, at 35.
Peter Duff, et al., Juries: A Hong Kong Perspective, 2 Asia Pac. L. Rev. 110 (1993).
Battered Woman Syndrome Evidence in the Courtroom: A Review of the Literature, 16 Law & Hum. Behav. 273 (1992) (with Regina A. Schuller).
Jury Determined Settlements and Summary Jury Trials: Observations about Alternative Dispute Resolution in an Adversary Culture, 19 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 89 (1991) (with Jeffrey Rice).
Panel Three: The Roles of Juries and the Press in the Modern Judicial System, 40 Am. U.L. Rev. 597 (1991) (with others).
Social Science Evidence and Data, in Forensic Evidence in Canada (Gary M. Chayko, et al. eds., 1991).
Gedragswetenschappelijk bewijs: een overzicht, in De Menselijke Factor: Psychologie voor Juristen 83 (P. van Koppen and H. Crombag eds., 1991) (with P. van Koppen).
Medical Malpractice Juries, Duke L. Mag., Summer 1991, at 8.
The Aftermath of Injury: Cultural Factors in Compensation Seeking in Canada and the United States, 25 Law & Soc'y Rev. 499-543 (1991) (with Herbert M. Kritzer & W.A. Bogart).
To Confront or Not to Confront: Measuring Claiming Rates in Discrimination Grievances, 25 Law & Soc'y Rev. 875-887 (1991) (with Herbert M. Kritzer & W.A. Bogart).
The American Jury: Twenty-Five Years Later, 16 Law & Soc. Inquiry 401 (1991) (with Hans).
Problems and Experience with the Ontario Civil Justice System: An Empirical Assessment, in Access to Civil Justice: Bridges and Barriers 1 (A. Hutchinson ed., 1990) (with W.A. Bogart).
Appendix: Exemplary Damage Claims in Ontario: An Empirical Profile, 16 Can. Bus. L.J. 262 (1990).
The Origins and Consequences of Procedural Fairness, 15 Law & Soc. Inquiry 877 (1990) (reviewing E. Lind & T. Tyler, The Social Pyschology of Procedural Justice).
Foreword: E mpirical Research and the Issue of Jury Competence, 52 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (1989)
Juries and Expert Evidence: Social Framework Testimony, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1989, at 133 (with Regina A. Schuller).
Assessing the Impact of Statistical Evidence: A Social Science Perspective, in The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts 279 (S. Fienberg ed., 1989).
Empirical Research on Offers of Settlement: A Preliminary Report, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1988, at 13 (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
Seeking Justice: An Empirical Map of Consumer Problems and Consumer Responses in Canada, 26 Osgoode Hall L.J. 757 (1988).
Assessing the Effects of Case Characteristics and Settlement Forums on Dispute Outcomes and Compliance, 21 Law & Soc'y Rev. 155-164 (1987).
Consumer Complaints and the Ontario Business Practices Act: An Empirical Study, 24 U. W. Ont. L. Rev. 83-101 (1987) (with Joseph Samuels).
Individual Differences and the Pursuit of Legal Rights: A Preliminary Inquiry, 11 Law & Hum. Behav. 299 (1987) (with Regina A. Schuller).
The Mediation of Small Claims Disputes: A Critical Perspective, in 1 Research on Negotiation in Organizations (M. Bazerman et al. eds., 1986).
The Legal System as Social: A Review of Lempert and Sanders' "An Invitation to Law and Social Science, 234 Science 93 (1986).
Juror Prejudice: An Empirical Study of a Challenge for Cause, 22 Osgood Hall L.J. 487 (1984) (with Julius Melnitzer).
The Small Claims Court: A Reconceptualization of Disputes and an Empirical Investigation, 18 Law & Soc'y Rev. 515-550 (1984).
Jury Selection, in The Psychology of the Courtroom 39 (N. Kerr and R. Bray eds., 1982).
The Use of Social Science Data in a Change of Venue Application: A Case Study, 59 Can. B. Rev. 76 (1981) (with John W.T. Judson).
Informed Public Opinion and Death Penalty Attitudes, 23 Can. J. Criminology 43 (1981) (with Tony Dittenhofer).
Sociopsychological Processes Underlying Attitudes Toward Legal Punishment, 14 Law & Soc'y Rev. 565-602 (1980) (with Dale T. Miller).
Adversary Pretrial Procedures and Testimonial Evidence: Effects of Lawyer's Role and Machavellianism, 39 J. Pers. & Soc. Psychol. 320 (1980) (with B. Sheppard).
Public Opinion, the Death Penalty, and the Eighth Amendment, 1976 Wis. L. Rev. 171 (with A. Sarat).
Authoritarianism and Recall of Evidence About Criminal Behavior, 9 J. Res. Pers. 147 (1975) (with K. Berg).
Retributive and Utilitarian Motives and Other Correlates of Canadian Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty, 15 Can. Psychol. 337 (1974).
Attributing Responsibility for an Accident, 6 Can J. Beh. Sci 112 (1974) (with Crinklaw).
Archie Bunker's Bigotry: A Study in Selective Perception and Exposure, 24 J. Communication 36 (1974) (with M. Rokeach).
Effects of Group Discussion on Category Width Judgments, 29 J. Pers. & Soc. Psychol. 187 (1974).
Opinion Change in a Crisis: Effects of 1970 Canadian Kidnapping Crisis on Political and Ethnic Attitudes, 6 Can. J. Behav. Sci. 199 (1974) (with Sorrenti & Goodstad).
Testimony Concerning Possible Jury Bias in a Black Panther Murder Trial, 3 J. Applied Soc. Psychol. 19 (1973) (with Rokeach).
Impact of Events: Short-Term v. Long-Term Effects of a Crisis, 38 Pub. Opinion Q. 271 (1974) (with Sorrentino).
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty, 26 Stan. L. Rev. 1245 (1974) (with Ellsworth).