Marc D. FalkoffB.A., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
J.D., Columbia Law School
Email: mfalkoff@niu.edu
Phone: 815-753-0660
Room: 197E
Marc Falkoff teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, the federal courts, and lawyering skills.
Prior to joining the law faculty in 2006, he was an associate at Covington & Burling, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense. Since 2004 Professor Falkoff has been a principal lawyer in the habeas representation of more than a dozen prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. For this work, Covington named him the Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2005. Along with other habeas counsel, he also received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights in 2007. He writes and speaks frequently about rule of law issues in the context of the war on terror.
Professor Falkoff is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Columbia Law Review and a James Kent Scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Brandeis University, an M.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Following law school, he clerked for Judges Carlos F. Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was appointed Habeas Corpus Special Master for the EDNY from 2003 to 2004.
Professor Falkoff has taught courses in post-conviction remedies and prisoners' rights at Brooklyn Law School, as well as classes in contemporary American fiction, memoir writing, and realism and naturalism at Purchase College.
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Habeas Corpus and Post-Conviction Remedies