Andrew Hammel, LL.M. (Harvard)

Personal Details

  • Born December 18, 1968 in Brussels, Belgium

  • American citizen

Academic and Professional Qualifications

  • B.A. English, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991

  • J.D., cum laude, The University of Houston, 1996

  • LL.M Harvard, 2001

  • Licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, the Federal District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States

  • Ajdunct Professor of Law, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 1999-2000; University of Texas at Austin 2002-2003.

Conferences and Lectures

  • "Parteiensponsoring in den USA," lecture delivered during annual conference of the Institut für Deutsches und Europäisches Parteienrecht (Direktor Prof. Dr. Morlok) on October 15, 2004.

  • "Election 2004 - Die US-Wahl aus juristischer Sicht" lecture sponsored by the European Law Students' Association, October 20, 2004.

  • Panel Participant, "Election Breakfast 2004," sponsored by the Rheinische Post and the American Consulate General, Nov. 3, 2004.

  • "Die Todesstrafe in den USA," sponsored by the Heinrich-Heine University chapter of Amnesty International, Nov. 17, 2004.

Publications

  • Article, Effective Performance Guarantees for Capital State Post-Conviction Counsel: Cutting the Gordian Knot, 5 J. APP. PRAC. & PROC. 347 (Winter 2003)

  • Article, Diabolical Federalism: A Functional Critique and Proposed Reconstruction of Federal Death Penalty Habeas, 39 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 1 (2002)

  • Essay, Jousting with the Juggernaut, in DAVID R. DOW & MARK DOW, THE MACHINERY OF DEATH (Routledge Press 2002)

  • Article, Discrimination and Death in Dallas: A Case Study in Systematic Racial Exclusion, 3 TEX. FORUM ON CIV. LIB. & CIV. RTS 187 (1998)

  • Article, The Importance of Being Insane: Sexual Predator Laws and the Idea of Sex Crimes as Insane Acts, 32 HOUS. L. REV. 775 (1995) (received Joan Garfinkel Glantz Award for Best Paper in the Area of Civil Liberties and Randal A. Hendricks Award for Best Interdisciplinary Comment)