Teaching

      My academic interests center in two areas.  One is constitutional law, particularly the First Amendment and issues of Presidential power, and constitutional history, with an emphasis on the Revolutionary and early national periods.  The other is litigation-centered, and includes civil and criminal procedure and strategy, with a special concentration on the death penalty.
      Thus, I ordinarily teach such courses as:  Constitutional Law, The Constitution and Social Reform, Mass Media and the First Amendment, The Death Penalty in Contemporary America, Critical Events in Anglo-American Legal History, Civil Procedure, Pre-trial Litigation, and Trial Techniques.

      Other

      I am the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (2d ed., 2003), reprinted in 31 Hof. L.R. 913 (2003).

      University Honors and Awards

     Public Interest Achievement Award, Hofstra Public Justice Foundation, 2005, 2002.
     Professor of the Year, Hofstra Law Review, 2001, 2003.
     Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarship, 1993-94. Awarded in University-wide competition for article Why Constitutional Lawyers and Historians Should Take a Fresh Look at the Emergence of the Constitution from the Confederation Period: The Case of the Drafting of the Articles of Confederation.
     Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, 1992. Chosen in University-wide competition to deliver lecture based on article The Law as King and the King as Law: Is a President Immune from Criminal Prosecution Before Impeachment?

      Principal Publications
    
     A. Scholarly
        
          Giarratano is a Scarecrow: The Right to Counsel in State Capital Post-conviction Proceedings, ___ Cornell L. R. ___ (forthcoming 2006).
          “Leo M. Frank,” in YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2006).
          “Articles of Confederation,” in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005).
         Mend It or End It?: The Revised ABA Capital Defense Representation Guidelines as an Opportunity to Reconsider the Death Penalty, 2 Ohio St. J. Cr. L. 663 (2005).   
        A Rational Constitutional Faith (remarks on installation as Distinguished Professor), 33 Hof. L.R. 417 (2004).
      The Revised ABA Guidelines and The Duties of Lawyers and Judges in Capital Post-conviction Proceedings, 5 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 325 (2003).
      Add Resources and Apply Them Systemically: Governments’ Responsibilities Under the Revised ABA Capital Defense Representation Guidelines , 31 Hof. L.R. 1097 (2003).                           
      “Federal Habeas Corpus in Capital Cases,” in AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (North Carolina Academic Press,  2d ed. 2003 & 1st ed. 1998) (James Acker et al., eds.).
      “Habeas Corpus,”in DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
      Digitized Pornography Meets the First Amendment , 23 Cardozo L.R. 2011 (2002).
      HABEAS CORPUS: RETHINKING THE GREAT WRIT OF LIBERTY (New York University Press, 2002; published in paperback 2003).
      Earl Washington’s Ordeal, 29 Hof. L.R. 1089 (2001).
      Just Because John Marshall Said it, Doesn’t Make it So: Ex Parte Bollman and the Illusory Prohibition on the Federal Writ of Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners in the Judiciary Act of 1789 , 51 Alabama L.R. 531 (2000).
     Leo Frank Lives: Untangling the Historical Roots of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Review of State Convictions, 51 Alabama L.R. 1467 (2000).
     Brown v. Allen: The Habeas Corpus Revolution That Wasn’t, 51 Alabama L.R. 1541 (2000).
     Book Review of Christopher N. May’s PRESIDENTIAL DEFIANCE OF “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” LAWS, 44 Am. J. Legal Hist. 226 (2000).
     On Protecting Accountability, 27 Hof. L.R. 677 (1999), an updated version of The Law as King and the King as Law: Is a President Immune from Criminal Prosecution Before Impeachment?, 20 Hastings Const. L.Q. 7 (1992) .
     Remarks at Symposium on the Future of Legal Services, 25 Fordham Urb. L.J. 345 (1998).
      “Open Legal Questions Remaining After Iran-Contra,” in PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE WORLD (Greenwood Press, 1997) (Eric J. Schmertz et al., eds.).
      Book Review of David Thomas Konig’s DEVISING LIBERTY, 16 Am. J. Legal Hist. 130 (1997).
      A Lot More Comes into Focus When You Remove the Lens Cap: Why Proliferating New Technologies Make it Particularly Urgent for the Supreme Court to Abandon its Inside-Out Approach to Freedom of Speech, and Bring Obscenity, Fighting Words, and Group Libel Within the First Amendment , 81 Iowa L.R. 883 (1996), partially reprinted as  “The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We do Better This Time?”, in LAW AND THE ARTS (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Susan Tiefenbrun, ed.) and as “History and Decency: Overcoming the Threat of an Inside-Out Approach,” in REAL LAW@VIRTUAL SPACE: COMMUNICATION REGULATION IN CYBERSPACE (Hampton Press, 1998; revised for 2d ed. 2005) (Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert, eds.).
     The Suspension Clause in the Ratification Debate s, 44 Buff. L.R. 451 (1996).
     GROUP DEFAMATION AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE (Greenwood Press, 1995) (edited with Monroe H. Freedman).
     Why Constitutional Lawyers and Historians Should Take a Fresh Look at the Emergence of the Constitution from the Confederation Period: The Case of the Drafting of the Articles of Confederation, 60 Tenn. L.R. 783 (1993).
      Challenging Law Students Through the Pretrial Litigation Course: Integrating Learning by Taking a Simulation Approach, and Letting the Campus Computer Network Help (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1992) (with Andrew Schepard).
      Innocence, Federalism, and the Capital Jury, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. Law & Soc. Change 315 (1990-91).
      Freedom of Information and the First Amendment in a Bureaucratic Age, 49 Brooklyn L.R. 829 (1983).
      American Libel Law 1825 - 1896: A Qualified Privilege for Public Affairs?, 30 Chitty's L.J. 113 (1982).
      Libel Law and the Preservation of the Republic 1787 - 1825, 30 Chitty's L.J. 176 (1982).
      Book Review of John Hart Ely's DEMOCRACY AND DISTRUST, 48 Brooklyn L.R. 391 (1982).
      Note, The United States and the Articles of Confederation: Drifting Toward Anarchy or Inching Toward Commonwealth?, 88 Yale L.J. 142 (1978).
      Complementarity versus Similarity of Traits Operating in the Choice of Marriage and Dating Partners, 105 J. Social. Psyc. 147 (1978) (with Amnon Till).

      B. General                   

       Senate Must Shed Light on Detainees’ Rights Bill, Newsday, November 18, 2005.   
      Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany  (Book Review), The Champion, November 2005.
      No New York Execution is in Sight, Newsday, December 30, 2003.
      The Constitutional Archipelago, Hofstra Chronicle, November 20, 2003.
      Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (Book Review), N.Y. L.J., June 20, 2003.
      Hamdi and the Case of the Five Knights , Legal Times, February 3, 2003.
      A Weakening Judiciary, Natl. L.J., November 11, 2002.
      The Bush Military Tribunals: Where Have We Been?  Where Are We Going?, Criminal Justice, Summer 2002.
      Pixelized Pixies: Chasing Virtual Smut , Natl. L.J., October 8, 2001, a revision of  Pondering Pixelized Pixies, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, August 2001.
      Black-Jewish Relations on Trial (Book Review), N.Y. L.J., July 10, 2001.
      A Tough Call Made Openly and Honestly , Newsday, December 10, 2000.
      Legal Argument Alone Won't Suffice , Newsday, November 21, 2000.
      Wait a Few Months to Judge Senate, Newsday, January 29, 1999.
      The House Botched Impeachment Hearings , Newsday, November 24, 1998.
      House Should Consider Censure Option , Newsday, September 14, 1998.
      Clinton and the Irresistible Urge of History , Legal Times, August 3, 1998.
      Achieving Political Adulthood, Nexus, Spring, 1997.
      The Case Against the Death Penalty, USA Today Magazine, March, 1997, reprinted in TAKING SIDES (McGraw-Hill 2001) (George McKenna and Stanley Feingold, eds.).
      To Catch a King, Legal Times, March 10, 1997.
      The First Amendment Also Applies to Lawyers , Natl. L.J., September 11, 1995.
      Tinkering With the Machinery in Capital Cases, Natl. L.J., August 23, 1993.
      Vertical and Horizontal Separation of Powers in the Constitution of the United States of America, Europske a Mezinarodni Pravo ("European and International Law"), Winter, 1992.
      Can Justice be Served by Appeals of the Dead?, Natl. L.J., October 19, 1992.
      Habeas Corpus Cases Re-Wrote the Doctrine , Natl. L.J., August 19, 1991.
      Presidential Paradox, Natl. L.J., August 12, 1991.
      Controlling the Capital Jury: How Much Rationality is Too Much?, ABA Preview, December, 1989.
 
 

Principal Publications