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Nora V. Demleitner
Nora V. Demleitner
 
Dean and Professor of Law
B.A., Bates College
J.D., Yale University
LL.M., Georgetown University
Phone:  (516) 463-5854
Fax:  (516) 463-6091
E-mail:  lawnvd@hofstra.edu

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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 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.

For the second consecutive year, Professor Demleitner has been named one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business by The Long Island Business News. The award recognizes the contributions of female professionals on the region's economy and communities.

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. She recently participated in the 2009 J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s annual conference at Harvard Law School, where she spoke on a panel about the impact of sentencing guidelines on civil rights.

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. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford, Michigan, and Minnesota law reviews, among others.

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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