Nina Kraut
Nina Kraut, J.D., LL.M
3815 Yuma Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20016-2213
(District of Columbia)

Admitted: 1981, District of Columbia; 1978, Pennsylvania [inactive status];

Law School: Franklin Pierce Law Center, 1978, J.D.; Washington College of Law, 2004, LL.M.

College: New York University

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Practice Areas: Domestic and international human rights and humanitarian law. Federal Litigation; Constitutional Law including specialty in free expression [speech, assembly, press]; 13th Amendment involuntary servitude torts; Discrimination; Womens Rights; Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation; Complex Litigation; Criminal Defense; White Collar Crime; Drug Crimes; Felonies; ADR; Mediation.

Additional Information:
Biography: Honoree, One of 25 outstanding law school alumni, Franklin Pierce Law Center, 2002. Author: "Correspondence/To the Editors in Chief," 99 AJIL 432 (Spring 2005)[international journalist privilege standard] “A Critical Analysis of One Aspect of Randal In Light of International, European, and American Human Rights Conventions and Case Law,” 35 Colum. H. R. L. Rev. 337 (Spring 2004)[international journalist privilege standard] “Speech: A Freedom in Search of One Rule,” 12 Thom. M. Cooley L. Rev. 177 (1995) Director, Center for International Free Expression, Inc., 2005 - present Assistant Visiting Professor and Director of Civil Law Clinic, Syracuse University (1994-1995). Languages: French. Selected Litigated Cases: Siegert v. Gilley, 111 S. Court 1789 (1991)(constitutional challenge to heightened pre-discovery pleading standard for malice where qualified immunity was raised as a defense in a summary judgment motion); U.S. v. Eichman et al, 496 U.S. 310 (1990)(symbolic speech)(co-counsel); U.S. v. Crawford, 738 F.Sup. 564 DDC (1990)(established the rule that federal criminal defendants have a right to bond and preliminary hearings prior to mental competency determinations); D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic (Grand Chamber, ECtHR)(Letter of Request to File Amicus Brief on behalf of Roma children on issue of denial of freedom of expression [knowledge] in public education (September 2006);Harvin v. District of Columbia, et al., No. 02-279 (D.D.C. 2002)(unreported and settled)(constitutional, statutory, regulatory, common law, and international challenges to the strip searching of a middle school-age boy while he was on a public school “field trip” to the District of Columbia jail); Mokhiber et al. v. Boorstin, No. 86-1160 (D.D.C. April 1986)(unreported and settled)(defense of federal criminal defendants and simultaneously obtained TRO and permanent injunction of order banning them from using the Library of Congress); United States v. Edmonds, et al., Cr. No. 89-162/01 et al. (D.D.C.1989) and (D.C. Cir. 1989)(represented one of twenty-eight defendants in a federal drug and homicide prosecution involving a lengthy and complex jury trial and expedited and emergency appeals concerning issues of jury anonymity and sequestration, courtroom security, public trials, and freedom of the press)(lead counsel on interlocutory appeals); Morgan, et al. v. Barry, et al., No. 81-1419 (unreported)(D.D.C. June 1981)(constitutional challenge to the District of Columbia’s practice of strip searching female but not male arrestees; temporary and permanent injunction obtained)(lead counsel); Novosel v. Helgemoe, 384 A.2d 124 (N.H. Supp. 1978)(constitutional challenge to New Hampshire’s criminal insanity statutory scheme)(3L student/researched, briefed, and argued case in N.H. Supreme Court by special court rule).