Maggie Wittlin

Professor Wittlin's research focuses on evidence, as well as criminal and civil procedure, intellectual property, and law and behavioral sciences. Using theoretical, mathematical, and empirical methods, she studies how legal actors—judges, jurors, and citizens—should and do use evidence to make decisions. She is a co-author of the Third Edition of The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence and a co-organizer of the Evidence Summer Workshop.

Professor Wittlin joined the Fordham Law School faculty in 2020, and she was elected Teacher of the Year in 2022. Professor Wittlin previously taught at the University of Nebraska College of Law, where she was twice voted 1L Professor of the Year. She was an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School prior to that. Before teaching, she practiced at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. She clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Robert N. Chatigny of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Professor Wittlin received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Cultural Cognition Project and a Coker Fellow in Torts. She received her B.S. from Yale University magna cum laude with distinction in Physics, and she worked as a science writer before law school.

Representative Publications

The Missing Element in Trademark Infringement, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 1247 (2025) (with Sepehr Shahshahani)

Evidence of Compliance, 74 DePaul L. Rev. 827 (2025) (Clifford Symposium)

Binding Hercules: A Proposal for Bench Trials 76 Vand. L. Rev. 1735 (2023) (symposium)

Theorizing Corroboration 108 Cornell L. Rev. 911 (2023)

Meta-Evidence and Preliminary Injunctions 10 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1331 (2020)

Common Problems of Plausibility and Probabilism 23 Int’l J. Evidence & Proof 184 (2019) (symposium)

What Causes Polarization on IP Policy? 52 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1193 (2018) (with Lisa Larrimore Ouellette & Gregory Mandel)

The Results of Deliberation 15 U.N.H. L. Rev. 161 (2016)

Hindsight Evidence 116 Colum. L. Rev. 1323 (2016)

The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks 2 Nature Climate Change 732 (2012) (with Dan M. Kahan et al.)

Buckling Under Pressure: An Empirical Test of the Expressive Effects of Law 28 Yale J. on Reg. 419 (2011) (student note)