Managing Editor

Michael J. Ricciardelli, J.D.

Michael Ricciardelli is a recent graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law, which he attended as a Distinguished Public Interest Scholar. At Seton Hall Law, he was honored as a recipient of the Michael P. Ambrosio Masters in Jurisprudence Award. He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Policy & Research and a recipient of Seton Hall Law’s Guantanamo Award and the American Constitutional Society’s William Paterson Award for his work regarding Guantanamo Bay Detainees. He is a co-author of Captured on Tape, Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantanamo which was published in media sources throughout the world and formed a basis for Senator Ted Kennedy’s demand for the cessation of the further destruction of tapes.

Michael Ricciardelli is a speech writer and a member of the Advisory Board for the New Jersey Education Consortium, an organization devoted to furthering cost effective access to resources for under-serviced inner city youth. He graduated from Drew University with a B.A. in English in 1991 and has published poems in a number of literary magazines.

In addition to his work with the Center for Policy & Research, during law school he worked for the law firm of Marino, Mayers, & Jarrach, LLC., primarily engaging in the litigation and resolution of contract disputes. Although he has passed the New York Bar, Mr. Ricciardelli is not practicing law at present; he oversees media relations for the Seton Hall Law Department of Communications. His health policy interests are varied, but foremost include the implications of prospective legislation and Health IT.

He may be reached via email at ricciami@shu.edu