Rate My Professor David Hamer

Hamer has authored key texts including Evidence Law (2012) and co-contributed to Laying Down the Law (2012) and the LexisNexis Concise Australian Legal Dictionary (2011). Prominent publications encompass 'The Logic and Value of the Presumption of Doli Incapax (Failing That, an Incapacity Defence)' (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2023), 'Conceptions and Degrees of Innocence: The Principles, Pragmatics, and Policies of the Innocence Movement' (2022), 'Fingerprint Comparison and Adversarialism: The Scientific and Historical Evidence' (2020), 'The Significant Probative Value of Tendency Evidence' (2019), 'Model Forensic Science' (2016), and 'Presumptions, Standards and Burdens: Managing the Cost of Error' (2014). His work, cited over 430 times, influences debates on evidence admissibility, judicial notice, and forensic practices in Australian courts. Hamer engages publicly through expert commentary on cases like Kathleen Folbigg's, reforms to tendency evidence, and the need for a national criminal cases review commission, alongside seminars such as the Kirby Seminar Series.