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Degrees
JD, NYU School of Law; BA, University of Virginia
Biography
Ian H. Marcus Amelkin joined the faculty in 2025. He teaches and writes about criminal law and procedure, with a focus on the due process clause, the exclusionary rule for Fourth Amendment violations, federal criminal law, and public defense. Professor Marcus Amelkin’s writing has appeared in the Harvard Law & Policy Review and other publications.
Professor Marcus Amelkin recently taught as a lecturer of law and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where he taught a federal defense seminar, and Brooklyn Law School, where he taught criminal procedure. Prior to entering academia, Professor Marcus Amelkin was a public defender for more than a decade. He worked first in the criminal defense practice of the Legal Aid Society on Staten Island, New York and then for more than eight years as an assistant federal defender for the Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. At the Federal Defenders, Professor Marcus Amelkin handled several high profile and complex cases in the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also supervised the office’s summer internship program. Earlier in his career, Professor Marcus Amelkin was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. He clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama and the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Marcus Amelkin graduated with high distinction from the University of Virginia and cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was awarded a full-tuition Root-Tilden-Kern scholarship, was a student in Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice and Capital Defense Clinic as well as the Federal Defender Clinic. Professor Marcus Amelkin grew up a short drive from the Law School, is an avid fan of the New York Mets, and is excited and proud to be a member of the Hofstra Law community.
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