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Daniel
M. Filler
Senior
Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs
Professor of Law
Email: Daniel.M.Filler@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4705
Office: College of Law, Room 323 |
Education
J.D. New York University
A.B. Brown University
Dan
Filler is an expert on criminal law and procedure, death penalty
law, children’s rights and juvenile justice law, special
education law and trial-practice skills.
Professor Filler earned his J.D. from New York University School
of Law after serving as Note & Comment editor for the New
York University Law Review and placing first in the Orison S.
Marden Moot Court Competition. He also worked as research assistant
for former Professor John Sexton, who is now president of NYU.
He clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit before becoming assistant public
defender for the Defender Association of Philadelphia and then
staff attorney for the Bronx Defenders. He also completed a stint
as associate with the New York firm, Debevoise & Plimpton.
Before coming to Drexel, Professor Filler served as a tenured
faculty member at the University of Alabama School of Law.
His research focuses on matters of criminal justice and procedure,
including children’s rights, death-penalty law, fairness
to young offenders and Constitutional rights in an age of terrorism.
His articles have included “Silence and the Racial Dimension
of Megan’s Law,” in the Iowa Law Review, and “Terrorism,
Pedophilia and Panic,” in the Virginia Journal of Social
Policy and the Law.
He chaired an American Bar Association team that assessed the
fairness and accuracy of Alabama’s death-penalty system,
culminating in a report issued in 2006.
His activities have also included organizing and presenting
a panel on “Cultural Competence for Clinicians: Engaging
Students on their Own Terms,” at the AALS Clinical Conference
in 2007 and participating in a Workshop for the Future: Criminal
Law Clinics Evolved at the AALS Clinical Conference in 2004.
Professor Filler contributes to The Faculty Lounge, a blog about law, culture,
and academia: http://www.thefacultylounge.org/
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