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MARC D. FALKOFF TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION Northern Illinois University College of Law, DeKalb, IL 2006–present Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (acting 2015–2016; 2016–present) Professor of Law (2016–present; with tenure since 2012) Associate Professor of Law (2010–2016) Assistant Professor of Law (2006–2010) Courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure (Police Investigations), Criminal Procedure (Adjudication), Constitutional Law, Corporations, Federal Courts, Post-Conviction Remedies, Introduction to Lawyering Skills Director of Faculty Development (2013–2015) Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY 2004, 2006 Adjunct Professor of Law Courses in Post-Conviction Remedies and Prisoners’ Rights State University of New York, Purchase College, Purchase, NY 1997–1998 Adjunct Professor of Literature Courses in Realism and Naturalism, Memoir Writing, Contemporary American Fiction EDUCATION Columbia Law School, J.D. 1998–2001 Columbia Law Review, Articles Editor James Kent Scholar, 1999–2000 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1998–1999, 2000–2001 Student Legal Action Network, President Public Interest Law Students Association, President Brandeis University, Ph.D. (English) 1991–1997 Dissertation, Heads and Tales: American Letters in the Age of Phrenology Instructor, Writing & Composition Teaching Assistant for courses in 19th-Century American Literature, Introductory Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.A. (English) 1989–1990 Teaching Assistant for courses in Bible as Literature, Political Novel University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (English and Psychology) 1984–1988 Cum laude and with distinction in English Pennsylvania Punch Bowl Magazine, Editor in Chief Research Assistant for Professor Betsy Erkkila CLERKSHIPS United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY 2002–2003 Law Clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Denver, CO 2001–2002 Law Clerk to the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero OTHER LEGAL EMPLOYMENT Covington & Burling, New York, NY 2004–2006 Litigation Associate. Practice chiefly in white collar defense. Principal lawyer in habeas representation of seventeen Yemeni nationals detained at Guantanamo Bay. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY 2003–2004 Habeas Corpus Special Master. Appointment by Chief Judge Edward R. Korman. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY Summer 2001 Summer Associate NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY Summer 2000 Summer Intern, Criminal Justice Unit Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA Summer 1999 Summer Intern New York State Capital Defender Office, New York, NY Summer 1997 Research Intern BOOKS AND CHAPTERS POEMS FROM GUANTÁNAMO: THE DETAINEES SPEAK (University of Iowa Press 2007) (editor) (bestselling poetry anthology, translated into more than a dozen languages). HABEAS CORPUS TRAINING MATERIALS (3d ed. 2003). ARTICLES Thoughts on American Legal Education: Past, Present, and Future, 23 CHOSUN LAW JOURNAL 3 (2016). An Empirical Critique of JCAR and the Legislative Veto in Illinois, 65 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 949 (2016). The Legislative Veto in Illinois: Why JCAR Review of Administrative Agency Rulemaking is Unconstitutional, 47 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 1055 (2016). “Where is the World to Save Us From Torture?”: The Poets of Guantánamo, ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND LITERATURE (Routledge Press 2015). The Hidden Costs of Habeas Delay, 83 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 339 (2012). Habeas, Informational Asymmetries, and the War on Terror, 41 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 1361 (2011) (with Jon Connolly). 2 Bagram, Boumediene, and Limited Government, 59 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 851 (2010) (with Robert Knowles). Back to Basics: Habeas Corpus Procedures and Long-Term Executive Detention, 86 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 961 (2009). Torture and Habeas Corpus as Information-Forcing Devices, 29 NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 425 (2009). This is To Whom It May Concern: A Guantánamo Narrative, 1 DEPAUL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 153 (2008), reprinted in THE GUANTÁNAMO LAWYERS: INSIDE A PRISON OUTSIDE THE LAW (NYU Press 2009), and in THE UNITED STATES AND TORTURE: INTERROGATION, INCARCERATION AND ABUSE (NYU Press 2011). Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay, 6 SEATTLE JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 3 (Fall/Winter 2007) (peer reviewed). Litigation and Delay at Guantánamo Bay, 10 NEW YORK CITY LAW REVIEW 393 (2007). Toward a Limited-Government Theory of Extraterritorial Detention, 62 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN LAW 637 (2007) (with Robert Knowles). Abrogating State Sovereign Immunity in Legislative Courts, 101 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 853 (2001) (note). OTHER LEGAL WRITING (SELECTED) The Due Process Failings of Student Disciplinary Board Hearings, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (July 31, 2014). Eavesdrop Law's Demise Means Loss of Privacy, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (Apr. 17, 2014). Pro Bono Scholars Idea Could Enhance Legal Education, Provide Aid to Needy, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (Mar. 26, 2014). Overcorrecting Jury Instruction Errors, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (Feb. 18, 2014). Life Without Parole for Juveniles and the Retroactivity Mess, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (Jan. 14, 2014). The Evolving Right to Counsel on State Post-Conviction Review, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (Sept. 26, 2013). Afterthought Crimes and the Felony Murder Rule in Illinois, CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN (July 22, 2013). A Death at Gitmo, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Sep. 20, 2012). Politics at Guantánamo: The Former Chief Prosecutor Speaks, JURIST (Nov. 2, 2007), available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/11/politics-at-guantanamo-former-chief.php. Verses of Suffering, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE (Fall 2007) (cover story), reprinted in VIEWPOINTS: READINGS WORTH THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT (Heinle Press 7th ed., 2009). “Booker”: A Sea-Change in Federal Sentencing?, NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL (Jan. 21, 2005) (with Alan Vinegrad). 3 LAW SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY LECTURES (SELECTED) Police Accountability and Judicial Bias, American Constitution Society Panel Discussion at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (Chicago: October 2016). Thoughts on American Legal Education: Past, Present, and Future, Chosun University (Gwangju, South Korea: May 2016). The Present and Future of Guantánamo, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago (Chicago: February 2015). New Perspectives on Guantanamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy, Brown University (Providence, RI: September 2014). Guantánamo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Chicago: July 2011). Guantánamo Tribunals, DePaul Law School, Human Rights Law Institute’s Iraq History Project (Chicago: Oct. 2010). Habeas Corpus as Information-Forcing Device, Seton Hall Law School (Newark, NJ: Oct. 2010). Obama’s War on Terror. McHenry County College (Crystal Lake, IL: Jan. 2010). Torture: From the Midwest to the Mideast. University of Illinois, Chicago (Chicago: Apr. 2009). Obama Orders Guantánamo to Close: What Now? Chicago-Kent Law School (Chicago: Mar. 2009). Guantánamo as Human Rights Violation. Whittier Law School, 2008–2009 Speakers Series on International Human Rights (Costa Mesa, CA: Feb. 2009). Human Rights and Literature. Brandeis University, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life (Waltham, MA: Feb. 2009). Torture and Habeas Corpus As Information-Forcing Devices. Modern Language Association, Annual Conference (San Francisco: Dec. 2008). Executive Detention, Torture and Abuse. Washington University School of Law (St. Louis: Nov. 2008). Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus After the Military Commissions Act. Sturm School of Law, University of Denver (Denver: Oct. 2008). Rights Beyond Reason. Stanford University (Palo Alto: May 2008). Guantánamo: Notes from Inside the Wire. Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT: Apr. 2008). Late American Poetics and the Politics of Exception. University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study (Minneapolis: Apr. 2008). Representing Guantánamo Detainees. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL: Mar. 2008). Ad Hoc Tribunals and International Law. Thurgood Marshall School of Law (Houston: Feb. 2008). Guantánamo as Human Rights Violation. DePaul University (Chicago: Feb. 2008). Adnan’s Story. Rutgers University (New Brunswick: Dec. 2007). Waging Law at Guantánamo: How Our Government Undermines Human Rights in Our Courts. Marquette University, Conference on America, Human Rights and the World (Milwaukee: Sept. 2007). 4 Litigation in Progress. City University of New York, Law Review Symposium, Guantanamo Bay: The Global Effects of Wrongful Detention, Torture, and Unchecked Executive Power (New York: Mar. 2007). U.S. Detention Policy in the Global War on Terror. Thomas Jefferson University School of Law (San Diego: Mar. 2006). A Report on the Guantánamo Bay Habeas Litigation. Loyola Law School (Los Angeles: Mar. 2006). Guantánamo and the Graham Amendment. Columbia Law School, Human Rights Institute (New York: Feb. 2006). Careers in Immigration Advocacy. Fordham Law School, Immigration Advocacy Project (New York: Nov. 2005). CLE AND OTHER PUBLIC LECTURES (SELECTED) Experts Meeting on Closing Guantánamo Bay, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Washington, DC: Oct. 2013). A Primer on Habeas Corpus, Tenth Circuit Bench and Bar Conference (Colorado Springs: Aug. 2013). Habeas and Congressional Restrictions on the Release of Guantánamo Detainees, Union League Club of Chicago (Chicago: Feb. 2013). Torture and Guantánamo, National Lawyer’s Guild Midwest Annual Meeting