Immigrant of the Day: Nora Demleitner (Germany)

Nora V. Demleitner, who left her native Germany in 1986 as a teen to pursue college and law school in the United States, was named earlier this week as the ninth dean of Hofstra University School of Law. Demleitner, who had been serving as interim dean, becomes the first woman to lead the law school.

Prior to joining the Hofstra Law faculty, Demleitner taught at St. Mary’s University School of Law. In 1992-93, she served as clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. when he sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Demleitner testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Alito’s confirmation.

Demleitner grradted from Bates College and Yale Law School; she also earned a L.LM. in international and comparative law at Georgetown. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal, comparative, and immigration law. She is a managing editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and serves on the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Demleitner is the lead author of Sentencing Law and Policy. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford, Michigan, Minnesota, and many other law reviews. Demleitner has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, 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.

For a news story on Demleitner’s recent appointment as the Hofstra dean, click here.

KJ