Ralph Grunewald
Position title: Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities
Email: grunewald@wisc.edu
Address:
Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 7163
Research Interests
Degrees and Institutions
- Ref. Jur., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany)
- Assessor Jur., State of Bavaria (Germany)
- Ph.D. Criminology/Criminal Law, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany)
- LL.M. (Master of Laws), University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Recent Publications
Books:
Narratives of Guilt and Innocence: The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases, NYU Press 2023
Die De-Individualisierung des Erziehungsgedankens im Jugendstrafrecht, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003. (“The De-Individualization of the Principle of Education in the Juvenile Court Act”)
Articles:
“Forces Beyond Linear Reasoning: The Evidentiary Power of Narrative in Wrongful Conviction Cases”, in “Narratives in the Criminal Process”, Vittorio Klostermann (2021)
“Poetics of Injustice: The Case of Two Mockingbirds”, 26 Connotations Journal (2016/17)
“Reinventing the Trial: Evaluating Proposals to Modify the American Criminal Trial in the Wake of the Innocence Revolution” (Co-Authored with Marvin Zalman), 3 Texas A&M Law Review 189 (2015)
“Comparing Injustices: Congruence, Conflict, and the System”, 77 Albany Law Review 1139 (2014)
Courses Taught
Criminal Justice in America; Law and Literature; Guilt; Truth and Crime