Nora V. Demleitner is vice dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. She joined the Hofstra Law faculty in 2001 from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, where she had taught since 1994. Professor Demleitner received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her B.A. from Bates College, and also holds an LL.M. with distinction in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school Professor Demleitner clerked for the Hon. Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Demleitner teaches and has written widely in the areas of criminal, comparative, and immigration law. Her special expertise is in sentencing and collateral sentencing consequences. Professor Demleitner is a managing editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and serves on the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. She is the lead author of Sentencing Law and Policy, a major casebook on sentencing law, published by Aspen Law & Business in 2004. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, the Stanford Law & Policy Review, the Emory Law Review, and the Fordham Urban Law Journal, among others. Professor Demleitner lectures widely in the United States and Europe. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Scuola Superiore in Pisa, Italy. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany.