User:John Delaney
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I'm a retired law professor after thirty years of law school teaching. For many years, I taught criminal law, advanced criminal law, comparative criminal law, international criminal law and other subjects to law school students and students in masters and doctoral degree programs at the New York University School of Law. For many additional years, I then taught criminal law, advanced criminal law, the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, jurisprudence, a first year seminar, and other subjects at the City University of New York Law School. Prior to law school teaching, I taught introduction to sociology, criminology, and the sociology of knowledge at Fordham University.
I've published law review articles and four books: Learning Legal Reasoning, Briefing, Analysis and Theory; How To Do Your Best On Law School Exams; Learning Criminal Law As Advocacy Argument; and Criminal Law, A Problem Solving Approach. I was also general editor of nine other books, mostly about comparative law, in the American Series of Foreign Penal Codes. Prior to teaching, I conducted approximately 1,000 trials and I prepared and argued about 150 appeals. Significant excerpts from my books are viewable at Amazon, Google, and JohnDelaneyPub.com
I now spend some time each day writing and editing, enjoying my wife and eighteen-year-old daughter, studying and reading, and enjoying nature. My model is Oliver Wendell Holmes who, after retiring from the Supreme Court and in his nineties, studied Greek and explained it by saying that he was trying to imrove his mind. I am trying too.