Professor Hellerstein is an expert in criminal law, and in particular constitutional
litigation. He is also an experienced civil rights and appellate advocacy authority,
having served for 16 years as Attorney-in-Charge of the Legal Aid Society's Criminal
Appeals Bureau. He has argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court and New
York's highest court. He served for many years as Special Counsel for Pro Bono
Matters at Proskauer Rose, LLP., where he coordinated its pro bono program. Professor
Hellerstein has established in the Law School the Second Look Program, which investigates
and litigates claims of innocence by prisoners whose appellate remedies have run their
course. He formerly served as Vice President of the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, Chair of the Bar's Executive Committee, and Chair of the Bar’s Council on
Criminal Justice. The New York State Bar Association has honored him twice with awards
for "Outstanding Contribution to the Delivery of Defense Services" and
"Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Criminal Law Education," and the New
York Civil Liberties Union has honored him for his contribution to the cause of civil
liberties. Professor Hellerstein has been a member of the faculty since 1985.

Articles

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A Year to Remember: The Supreme Court’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence for the 2003 Term [Symposium: Sixteenth Annual Supreme Court Review Program], 20 Touro L. Rev. 831 (2005)
 

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Surprise Symphony: The Supreme Court’s Major Criminal Law Rulings of the 2002 Term [Symposium: The Fifteenth Annual Supreme Court Review], 20 Touro L. Rev. 279 (2004)
 
Book Review (reviewing J.T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation’s Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States), N.Y.L.J., Oct. 24, 2002, at 2 (2002)
 
Book Review reviewing A. Hutchinson & D. Garrow (eds.), The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: a Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington), N.Y.L.J., June 21, 2002, at 2 (2002)
 

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Section 1983 Fourth Amendment Cases From the Current Term [The Practising Law Institute’s 17th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Program], 18 Touro L. Rev. 691 (2002)
 

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Books

Prison conditions in Jamaica (with Lois Whitman) (1990)
 

Contributions to Books

No Rights of Prisoners, The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right (2002)
 
The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Decisions of the 2001 Term, 18th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation (2002)
 
The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment Decisions of the 2000 Term, 17th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation (2001)
 

Other

Final Report to the Chief Judge of the State of New York, Commission on the Future of Indigent Legal Services (Co-Chair of the Commission) (2006)