Joseph L. Hoffmann
Acting Executive Associate Dean and Harry Pratter Professor of Law
Office: 330Phone: 812-855-6150
E-mail: hoffma@indiana.edu
B.A., 1978, Harvard College; J.D., 1984, University of Washington. Note Editor, Washington Law Review. Clerk, Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1984-85. Clerk, Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, 1985-86. Member, Order of the Coif.
Professor Hoffmann is an award-winning scholar and law teacher. He is a recipient of the Law School Gavel Award, the Ira Batman and John Hastings Faculty Fellowships, and the university-wide Outstanding Young Faculty Award.
His courses include Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law, the Law and Society of Japan, a Seminar on Death Penalty Law, and a Seminar on Law and the Psychology of Criminal Law.
A nationally recognized authority on the death penalty, Professor Hoffmann has also written extensively about habeas corpus and federal criminal law.
Professor Hoffmann was a Fulbright professor in 1996 at the University of Tokyo, and in 1997-98 was a visiting professor at its International Center for Comparative Law and Politics.
You can view Professor Hoffmann's research at the Social Science Research Network.
Teaching and Research Interests
Courses
- Seminar in Law and Psychology of Crime Culp & Punishment (L748)
- Federal Criminal Law (B739)
- Seminar in Law & Society of Japan (L724)
- Seminar in Law & Society of Asia (L724)
- Seminar in Criminal Law: Death Penalty (L776)
- Criminal Procedure: Investigation (B601)
- Criminal Procedure: Trial (B602)
- Criminal Law (B511)