Biography

Nora V. Demleitner is dean and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. Dean 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 Dean 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.

Dean 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. At conferences around the country she regularly speaks on sentencing matters, often in a comparative context, and issues pertaining to the state of legal education. Most recently, she reflected on “Clinical Design from a Dean’s Perspective” at the bi-annual immigration law teachers’ conference held at DePaul Law School in Chicago.

Dean Demleitner has also lectured widely in 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.

Dean Demleitner is an 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.

For the third time in a row, Dean Demleitner was 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 to the region's economy and communities. As a three-time winner of the award, Dean Demleitner is now a member of the Hall of Fame.

Dean Demleitner is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

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