Joseph Landau

Associate-in-Law

Office: 435 W 116 Street, JGH 648
New York NY 11201
Tel: 212-854-2606
Email: jlanda@law.columbia.edu

Education

  • B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Duke University, 1995.
  • J.D., Yale Law School, 2002.

 Publications

  • Muscular Procedure: Executive Detention and the Judicial Role After 9/11, 84 Wash. L.   Rev. (forthcoming 2009)  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1468500
  • “Soft Immutablity” and “Imputed Gay Identity”: Recent Developments in Transgender and Sexual Orientation-Based Asylum Law, 32 Fordham Urb. L.J. 237 (2005)
  • “Marriage as Integration,” in Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con (ed. Sullivan, Vintage, 1996)
  • Oakeshott’s Politics of Faith and Politics of Skepticism (Book Rev.), The Wilson Quarterly, 2/1996
  • A Question of Ethics, Eruditio (Duke Univ., 1996); reprinted in Episteme (Denison Univ., 1996)

 Selected Articles from The New Republic Magazine (http://www.tnr.com/users/joseph-landau)

  • “Indefinite Detention Center,” The New Republic, Nov. 13, 2008
  • “Reversal of Fortune,” The New Republic, 3/11/04
  • “Judge Advocates,” The New Republic, 2/25/04
  • “Misjudged,” The New Republic, 2/9/04,
  • “Ripple Effect,” The New Republic, 6/23/03 (cited in Brest et al., Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking 1476 (5th ed. 2006)).
  • “Out of Order,” The New Republic, 5/5/97

 Areas of Interest

  • Civil Procedure
  • Administrative Law
  • Immigration
  • National Security

 Clerkships

  • Hon. Betty Binns Fletcher, U.S. Court Of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • Hon. David G. Trager, U.S. District Court, Eastern District Of New York

 Professional Experience

  • Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, 20022004; 2006 – 2008
  • Board of Directors, Immigration Equality, 2008 – present
  • Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Fall 2007
  • Assistant Managing Editor, The New Republic magazine, 1997 – 1999