Dan Filler studies the effects of social anxiety on the development of criminal law.
He is an expert on sex offender community notification, the death penalty and juvenile
justice law.
Before joining the inaugural faculty, Professor Filler was a professor of law at the
University of Alabama School of Law, where he created the school's Capital Defense
Clinic.
He has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and
Humanities and chaired an American Bar Association team that assessed the fairness and
accuracy of Alabama’s death-penalty system.
Professor Filler earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law after serving as
an editor for the New York University Law Review and winning the Orison S. Marden Moot
Court Competition.
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 practiced with the
New York firm, Debevoise & Plimpton.
His scholarship has appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the California Law Review, and
the Iowa Law Review, among other places.
In 2008, Professor Filler established The Faculty Lounge blog to which he continues to
contribute regularly. He also blogs on Brian Leiter's Law School Reports.
