Law School Profile

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

  • A.B., Harvard University
  • J.D., LL.M., Columbia University School of Law

PROFILE:

Professor Dillof will provide additional strength to the Law School's Criminal Law/Criminal Procedure curriculum. He was selected as only one of three participants in Columbia University School of Law’s associate of law fellowship program in 1994. The program is designed to provide training for prospective law teachers. During the two-year fellowship, Dillof developed curriculum and taught Legal Writing and Research; he received a master of laws degree from Columbia. He subsequently joined the faculty at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, where he taught Criminal Law, Torts, Criminal Procedure I, Civil Rights and Jurisprudence. He also coached the school's moot court team and organized a student chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a Pro Bono Criminal Law Project. In 1999, he was a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he taught Torts and a seminar on the theory of criminal punishment.

Professor Dillof earned his juris doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law, where he was senior editor of the Columbia Law Review as well as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for three years. He received his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Harvard University where he majored in philosophy.

Prior to teaching, Professor Dillof worked as an assistant corporation counsel for the New York City Law Department in the Appeals Division, the Environmental Division and the General Litigation Division. He served as a special legal assistant for the Immigration Law Task Force of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was responsible for drafting the lawyer’s guide to the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

 

COURSES:

  • Torts
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure I

PUBLICATIONS:

Unraveling Unlawful Entrapment, 94 J. Crim. Law & Crimin. 827 (2004).

Unraveling Unknowing Justification, 77 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1547 (2002).

Punish the Crime, Not the Hate, 64 Tex. Bar J. 71 (2001).

The Importance of Being Biased, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 1678 (2000) (book review).

Putting Hate in Its Place: The Codification of Bias Crime Statutes in a Modern Penal Code, 4 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 341 (2000).

Imputation and Exculpation, in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (Christopher B. Gray ed., 1999).

Transferred Intent: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Criminal Culpability, 1 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 501 (1998) (New Voices in Criminal Theory symposium issue).

Punishing Bias: An Examination of the Theoretical Foundations of Bias Crime Statutes, 91 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1015 (1997).

Romer v. Evans and the Constitutionality of Higher Lawmaking, 60 Alb. L. Rev. 361 (1996).

Unraveling Proximate Causation (in progress).

Infinite Expectations (in progress).

 

 

 
 
 
Last Updated: August 18, 2003