Faculty
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Nora V. Demleitner
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Dean and Professor of Law
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B.A., Bates College |
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Nora V. Demleitner is dean and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Demleitner received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her B.A. from Bates College, and also holds an LL.M. with distinction in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school Professor Demleitner clerked for the Hon. Samuel A. Alito, Jr., then a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She testified in front of the U.S. Senate on behalf of Justice Alito’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Demleitner teaches and has written widely in the areas of criminal, comparative, and immigration law. Her special expertise is in sentencing and collateral sentencing consequences. Professor Demleitner is a managing editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and serves on the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. She is the lead author of Sentencing Law and Policy, a major casebook on sentencing law, published by Aspen Law & Business. Professor Demleitner lectures widely in the United States and Europe. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Freiburg, Germany, St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, and the Sant' Anna Institute of Advanced Research in Pisa, Italy. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany, funded by a German Academic Exchange Service grant.
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Camille Nelson
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Professor of Law
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B.A., University of Toronto |
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Prior to joining the Hofstra Law community, Professor Nelson taught at Saint Louis University School of Law and served as a visiting professor at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, where she taught Contracts and Criminal Law. She was the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar in Residence. She is a widely recognized scholar in the field of critical race theory and cultural studies, with particular focus in criminal law, criminal procedure, disability law and comparative law. She has published fifteen law review articles, an anthology, book chapters and national and international scholarly articles and professional working papers. She regularly presents at conferences and workshops around the country and internationally and has been asked to present several prominent public lectures.
In 2006, Professor Nelson received the Faculty Excellence Award from students at Saint Louis University. In 2005, she received the Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Faculty Award from the Association of American Law Schools, Section on Minority Groups.
And in 2004, she received the Extraordinary Service Award from the National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference and was named Faculty Member of the Year at Saint Louis University School of Law. After graduating with her law degree, Professor Nelson clerked for Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada and then worked as an associate at McCarthy Tetrault, Barristers and Solicitors, the largest law firm in Canada.
Administrative Staff – Hofstra Law School
Jeffrey A. Dodge, Assistant Dean for Administration & Operations
E-mail: Jeffrey.Dodge@hofstra.edu
Tel: (516) 463-0417Joanne Masci, Senior Support Specialist
Email: Joanne.Masci@hofstra.edu
Tel: (516) 463-4547