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Marc D. FalkoffMarc D. Falkoff
Assistant Professor of Law

B.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

Biography

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.

Books and Chapters

  • POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO:  THE DETAINEES SPEAK (University of Iowa Press 2007) (editor). 
  • HABEAS CORPUS TRAINING MATERIALS (3d ed. 2003).
  • The Prison Litigation Reform Act, in THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER’S MANUAL (5th ed. 2000) (with John Boston).

Articles

  • This Is To Whom It May Concern, 1 DePaul J. Soc. Just. 153 (2008).
  • Guantánamo in the Supreme Court: Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back, The Professor's Column, N. ILL. U. C. L. (March 2008). 
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  • Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay, 6 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 3 (Fall/Winter 2007). 
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  • Litigation and Delay at Guantánamo Bay, 10 N.Y. City L. Rev. 393 ( 2007).
  • Verses of Suffering, Amnesty Int'l Mag. (Fall 2007).
  • Marc D. Falkoff & Robert Knowles, Toward a Limited-Government Theory of Extraterritorial Detention,62 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 637 (2007).
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  • Marc D. Falkoff & Alan Vinegrad, 'Booker:' A Sea-Change in Federal Sentencing?, 2005 N.Y. L.J., Jan. 21, 2005, at 5.
  • Note, Abrogating State Sovereign Immunity in Legislative Courts, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 853 (2001).
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Areas of Expertise:

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Habeas Corpus and Post-Conviction Remedies