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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Eric M. Freedman
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Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law
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B.A., J.D., Yale University |
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Professor Freedman has two primary areas of academic interest. One is constitutional law and history, with a special emphasis on the history of the Revolutionary period, First Amendment topics, and separation of powers. The second is litigation-centered and includes the fields of civil and criminal procedure and strategy, with a focus on the death penalty and habeas corpus. He has testified on these matters several times before Congress and other legislative bodies.
Professor Freedman is actively involved in the continuing professional education of lawyers and judges, and in providing pro bono litigation advice and representation, most recently with respect to issues arising from the campaign against terrorism.
He is the reporter for the ABA's Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Capital Cases, which were released at a conference at the Law School in 2003, and the author of Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty, published by New York University Press. Professor Freedman also serves as a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a director of and counsel to the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Professor Freedman was elected as Teacher of the Year by the graduating class of 2006. In 2004, he received the Dybwad Humanitarian Award of the American Association on Mental Retardation for his work in exonerating an innocent Virginia death row inmate in Virginia. He formerly chaired the City Bar Association's committee on civil rights, and served on its executive committee and committees on capital punishment, communications law, and legal history.
Before coming to Hofstra, Professor Freedman was a litigator with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he pursued both general commercial practice and numerous pro bono matters. Professor Freedman also served as a law clerk to Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, studied abroad on a Fulbright Scholarship, and served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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J. Scott Colesanti
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Assistant Professor of Legal Writing and Research
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B.A. Adelphi University |
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J. Scott Colesanti has been an attorney for 20 years, having worked as Trial Counsel for the New York Stock Exchange and within its Office of the General Counsel. Professor Colesanti has handled appeals before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, and the Social Security Administration. He is a member of the Bars of New York, Washington, D.C., and Missouri, and has served an appointment to the Corporate Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Professor Colesanti previously taught at Saint Louis University and has been an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority since 2001. He has taught at Hofstra since 2002 and, in the Spring of 2006, was selected “Professor of the Year” by the Hofstra Law Review. Professor Colesanti has been published on over a dozen occasions, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Securities Compliance, and is a frequent contributor of expert commentary to LexisNexis.
The courses that Professor Colesanti has taught include Legal Writing and Research, Appellate Advocacy, Securities Regulation, and Broker Dealer Regulation.
Administrative Staff – Hofstra Law School
Elaine Vukov, Executive Director of International Programs
E-mail: lawezv@hofstra.edu Tel: (516) 463-0437
Brian Casella, Executive Assistant
Email: lawbmc@hofstra.edu Tel: (516) 463-7049