Hofstra University - School of Law - Media Guide

Eric Freedman

Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of
Constitutional Law

Background B.A., J.D., Yale University M.A., Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) The reporter for the ABA's Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Capital Cases Author of Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty (New York University Press, 2002)		Contact Information Phone: (516) 463-5167 E-mail: lawemf@hofstra.edu Faculty Web Page

Areas of Expertise Civil Liberties Constitutional Law Death Penalty/Habeas Corpus Guantanamo Detainees		Media Experience Newsday, "Sotomayor's 2001 speech: Ethnicity, gender help her as judge" 05/27/09 Think Progress, "Sessions Goes Off-Message, Admits That Supreme Court Justices Write The Constitution" 05/27/09 Newsweek, "'No Buried Skeletons’ in Sotomayor’s Law Review"" 05/27/09 The New York Law Journal, "New Yorkers Welcome Nomination, Praise Judge as 'Fair,' 'Intelligent'" 05/27/09 National Law Journal, "High court pick stays on 'real world' message" 05/26/09

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