I decided to become a defense attorney when I realized that the people most affected by the legal system are often those with the least voice within it. The law is the gateway to accountability, dignity, and fairness, but not everyone has equal access to it. I wanted to help people attain justice that might seem unreachable, and to give them a clear, informed, and effective voice in the moments that matter most to their futures. Those same goals motivated me to establish Lamparello Law, Education, and Advocacy.

Prior to founding the firm, I spent nearly fifteen years as a professor of constitutional law, criminal procedure, and appellate advocacy. In that role, I was repeatedly recognized for excellence in teaching and mentorship, and I am especially proud that many of my students credited my courses with fundamentally shaping their legal reasoning and advocacy skills.

Throughout my academic career, I have bridged scholarship and practice, grounding my work in courtroom realities, strategic judgment, and procedural precision. I have written multiple books, book chapters, and more than 65 law review articles. My work, with its focus on how legal doctrine is applied in real-world litigation, has been cited by courts, practitioners, and scholars. I have also authored or co-authored a dozen amicus briefs in cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, contributing rigorous, practice-informed analysis on legal issues of national relevance.

In my return to private practice as an academic misconduct attorney and defense attorney, I focus not just on the legal issues, but the people whose lives are affected by them. I begin every relationship with a client by listening carefully to their story and needs. My clients are often facing powerful institutions and significant power imbalances that have silenced them. Throughout my work with them, I empower them by explaining the legal process clearly and honestly, helping them feel informed and above all, that they are not alone in the challenges they are facing.

I approach my work with the discipline of a scholar, the strategy of a seasoned litigator, and a commitment to standing firm and ensuring every client’s voice is heard.

Practice Areas
  • First Amendment/Academic Misconduct Defense
  • Criminal Defense
  • Education Consulting
  • Legal/Litigation Consulting
Education
  • University of Alabama, M.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2019)
  • New York University School of Law, LL.M. (2006)
  • Ohio State University, J.D. with Honors (2001)
  • University of Southern California, B.A. in Political Science (1997)
Admissions to Practice
  • New Jersey
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Professional Memberships and Associations
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
Honors and Awards
  • Excellence in Teaching, Georgia College Departmental Award (2024)
  • Outstanding Contributions to the Law School, Indiana Tech Law School, 2015
Publications

Books

  • Justice for All: Repairing American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2022) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • The United States Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2016) (with Cynthia G. Swann)
  • The Guide to Experiential Legal Writing (Carolina Academic Press, 2016) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Show, Don’t Tell: Legal Writing for the Real World (LexisNexis 2014) (with Megan E. Boyd)

Book Chapters

  • George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, War Crimes, and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (forthcoming 2026)
  • Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum (Carolina Academic Press, 2017) (with Charles E. MacLean)

Book Reviews

  • Joseph Dillon Davey, A Progressive View of the Bill of Rights (for Routledge Press)

Articles

 

  • The Flaws of Implicit Bias – and the Need for Empirical Research in Legal Scholarship and In Legal Education, 45 J. LEGAL PROF. (2021)
  • Curricular Integration: The Missing Element in Legal Education, 32 Second Draft (Legal Writing Institute) (2019)
  • IQ , Culpability, and the Criminal Law’s ‘Gray Area’: Why the Rationale for Reducing the Culpability of Juveniles and Intellectually Disabled Adults Should Apply to Low-IQ Adults, 64 LOYOLA L. REV. 305 (2019);Originalism and the Criminal Law: Vindicating Justice Scalia’s Jurisprudence—and the Rule of Law, 50 AKRON L. REV. 228 (2017) (with Charles E. MacLean);
  • Contextualizing the Free Exercise of Religion, 68 FLORIDA L. REV. 682 (2017)
  • Assessing a Law School’s Program of Legal Education to Comply with the American Bar Association’s Revised Standards and Maximize Student Attainment of Core Lawyering Competencies, 86 UMKC L. REV. 37 (2017);
  • Rights Without Remedies, 121 PENN ST. L. REV. 737 (2016)
  • Promoting Inclusion through Exclusion: Higher Education’s Assault on the First Amendment, 18 U. PENN. J. OF CONST. L. ONLINE (2016)
  • A Fourth Amendment Framework for the Free Exercise Clause, 22 NOTRE DAME J. ON LEGISLATION 131 (2016);
  • Private Prisons and the Marketplace for Crime, 6 WAKE FOREST J. OF LAW AND PUBLIC. POL’Y 407 (2016) (with Andre Douglas Pond Cummings)
  • Birchfield v. North Dakota: Why the United States Supreme Court Should Rely on Riley v. California To Hold that Criminalizing A Suspect’s Refusal to Consent to a Warrantless Blood Test Violates the Fourth Amendment, 14 WASH. AND LEE J. CIV. RIGHTS AND SOC. JUST. 108 (2016) (with Cynthia Swann)
  • The New Affirmative Action After Fisher v. Texas: Achieving Educational Diversity through the Sixth Amendment’s Cross-Section Requirement, 69 SMU L. REV. 387 (2016)
  • Roe v. Wade: The Case That Changed Democracy, 5 TENN. J. OF RACE, GENDER, & SOC. JUSTICE 196 (2016)
  • Riley v. California: The Aftermath and Unanswered Questions, 2015 FED. CTS. L. REV. 13 (2016) (symposium)
  • The Integrated Law School Curriculum, 8 ELON L. REV. 408 (2016)
  • Dead Men Walking: Will Foster v. Humphrey Mark the Beginning of the End for the Death Penalty? 3 SAVANNAH L. REV. 223 (2016) (symposium edition)
  • The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same: Why Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Will Not Fundamentally Alter the Affirmative Action Landscape, 24 U. MIAMI BUS. L. REV. 1 (2016)
  • Riley v. California: A Pyrrhic Victory for Privacy Rights? 3 ILLINOIS J. OF LAW, TECH., & POL’Y 393 (2016)
  • The Death of Academic Support: Creating a Truly Integrated, Experiential, and Assessment-Driven Academic Success and Bar Preparation Program, 42 MITCHELL/HAMLINE L. REV. 110 (2016) (with Laura Dannebohm)
  • Why Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Same-Sex Marriage, 17 U. PENN. J. OF CONST. L. ONLINE 1 (2015)
  • Fundamental Unenumerated Rights Under the Ninth Amendment and the Privileges or Immunities Clause, 49 AKRON L. REV. 179 (2015)
  • The Separate But Unequal Constitution, 64 DEPAUL L. REV 113 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • It’s the Constitution, Stupid: Two Liberals Pay Tribute to Antonin Scalia’s Legacy, 45 U. MEMPHIS L. REV. 281 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Stop Blaming the Prosecutors: The Real Causes of Wrongful Convictions and Rightful Exonerations, and What Should Be Done to Fix Them, 44 HOFSTRA L. REV. 151 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean and James Berles)
  • The Case for Defamatory Opinion, 25 GEO. MASON U. C.R. L.J. 301 (2015)
  • City of Los Angeles v. Patel: The Upcoming Supreme Court Case No One is Talking About, 20 TEXAS F. ON C.R. AND C.L. 135 (2015)
  • Experiential Legal Writing: The New Approach to Practicing Like a Lawyer, 39 J. LEGAL PROF. 135 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Obergefell v. Hodges: How the Supreme Court Should Have Ruled, 7 AKRON J. CONST. L. & POL’Y 27 (2015)
  • Unreasonable Doubt: Warren Hill, AEDPA, and Georgia’s Unconstitutional Burden of Proof, 51 CRIM. LAW. BULLETIN 819 (2015)
  • ‘God Hates Fags’ Is Not the Same as ‘Fuck the Draft’: Introducing the Non-Sexual Obscenity Doctrine, 84 UMKC L. REV. 61 (2015)
  • Justice Sotomayor’s Undemocratic Dissent in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 5 MIAMI RACE AND SOC. JUST. L. REV. 97 (2015)
  • Toward A Writing-Centered Legal Education, 84 FORDHAM L. REV. Res Gestae 11 (2015)
  • Justice Kennedy’s Decision in Obergefell: A Sad Day for the Judiciary, 6 HOUSTON L. REV. Off the Record 45 (2015)
  • Data Breaches, Privacy, and the New Normal, 2015 CARDOZO L. REV. De Novo 119 (2015) (symposium issue)
  • The Internet is the New Marketplace of Ideas: Why Riley v. California Supports Net Neutrality, 25 DEPAUL J. ART, TECH., & INTELL. PROP. L. 267 (2015)
  • No Shoehorn Required: How a Required, Three-Year, Persuasion-Based Legal Writing Program Easily Fits Within the Broader Law School Curriculum, 23 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 1 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • A Proposal to the ABA: Integrating Legal Writing and Experiential Learning Into a Required, Six-Semester Curriculum that Trains Students in Core Competencies, ‘Soft Skills,’ and Real-World Judgment, 43 CAPITAL U. L. REV. 59 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Molecular Photofitting: Addressing the Dilemmas Posed by DNA Phenotyping in Criminal Investigations and Criminal Courts, 8(2) RECENT ADVANCES IN DNA & GENE SEQUENCES 1 (2015) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • With All Deliberate Speed: NLRB v. Canning and the Case for Originalism, 40 DAYTON L. REV. 1 (2015)
  • Law School in Crisis: A Response to Measuring Merit: The Schultz-Zedeck Research on Law School Admissions 61 LOYOLA L. REV. 235 (2015)
  • The Legacy of Anthony Kennedy, 4 SAVANNAH L. REV. 1 (2015)
  • Abidor v. Napolitano: Suspicionless Cell Phone and Laptop “Strip” Searches at the Border Compromise the Fourth and First Amendments, 108 NORTHWESTERN L. REV. COLLOQUY 280 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Paroline, Restitution, and Transferred Scienter: Child Pornography Possessors and Restitution Based on a Commerce Clause-Derived, Aggregate Proximate Cause Theory, 16 UNIV. PENN. J. OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY 37 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Hall v. Florida: The Death of Georgia’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Standard, 5 HOUSTON L. REV. Off the Record 33 (2014)
  • Back to the Future: Returning to Reasonableness and Particularity Under the Fourth Amendment, 99 IOWA L. REV. Bulletin 101 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Citizens Disunited: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, 90 INDIANA L.J. SUPPLEMENT 43 (2014)
  • Riley v. California: Privacy Still Matters, But How Much and In What Contexts, 27 REGENT L. REV. 25 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Riley v. California: The New Katz or Chimel? 21 RICHMOND J. L. & TECH. 1 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Restoring Constitutional Equilibrium, 39 DAYTON L. REV. 229 (2014)
  • Requiring Three Years of Real-World Legal Writing Instruction: Law Students Need It; Prospective Employers Want It; The Future of the Legal Profession Demands It, 52 HOUSTON L. REV. Off the Record 95 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Amicus Briefs – Friends of Lawyering Skills Pedagogy, THE LAW TEACHER (spring 2014 issue) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Legal Writing – What’s Next? Real-World, Persuasion Pedagogy from Day One, 48 New Eng. L. Rev. On Remand 85 (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Training Great Writers—Not Just Legal Writers, Canadian Law Library Journal (peer reviewed) (2014) (with Charles E. MacLean)
  • Why Justice Kennedy’s Decision in Windsor Short-Changed Same-Sex Couples, 46 CONN. L. REV. ONLINE 27 (2013)
  • Vulnerable Victims: Increasing Animal Cruelty Sentences to Reflect Society’s Understanding of the Value of Animal Lives, 45 CONN. L. REV. ONLINE 31 (2013)
  • A Dog in the Fight—U.S. v. Hargrove and Why Americans Should Care About Sentencing Guidelines in Animal Cruelty Cases, 40 RUTGERS LAW RECORD 249 (2013) (with Megan E. Boyd)
  • Legal Writing for the ‘Real World’: A Practical Guide to Success, 46 JOHN MARSHALL L. REV. 487 (2013) (with Megan E. Boyd)
  • Neuroscience, Brain Damage, and the Criminal Defendant: Who Does It Help and Where in the Criminal Proceeding is it Most Relevant, 39 RUTGERS LAW RECORD 161 (2012)
  • Taking the ‘Substance’ Out of Substantive Due process and Returning Lawmaking Power to the Federal and State Legislatures, 63 SOUTH CAROLINA L. REV 285 (2012)
  • Neuroscience and Post-Sentence Civil Commitment: A Response to Professors Erickson and Goldberg, 11 HOUS. J. HEALTH LAW & POL’Y 347 (2012)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience and Involuntary Commitment: The Model Statute, 11 HOUS. J. HEALTH LAW & POL’Y 267 (2012)
  • Suicide: A Legal, Constitutional and Human Right, 18 TEXAS WESLEYAN L. REV. 797 (2012)
  • Using Cognitive Neuroscience as a Basis upon Which to Accurately Predict the Future Dangerousness of Violent Criminals and thus Provide a Procedure for the Involuntary Commitment of Such Individuals as a Part of or Following the Duration of their Sentence, 41 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS. L. REV. 481 (2011)
  • Why Wait Until the Crime Happens: Providing for the Involuntary Commitment of Dangerous Individuals without Requiring a Showing of Mental Illness, 41 SETON HALL L. REV. 875 (2011)
  • Incorporating the Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment Framework into Substantive Due Process Jurisprudence through the Introduction of a Contingent-Based and Legislatively-Driven Constitutional Theory, 88 NEBRASKA L. REV. 692 (2010)
  • Establishing Guidelines for Attorney Representation of Criminal Defendants at the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials, 62 MAINE L. REV 97 (2010)
  • Bridging the Divide between Justice Kennedy’s Progressivism and Justice Scalia’s Textualism: Introducing the Concept of Negative Originalism, 18 FLORIDA J. OF LAW AND PUB. POL’Y 383 (2007)
  • Incorporating the Procedural Justice Model into Federal Sentencing Jurisprudence in the Aftermath of United States v. Booker: Establishing United States Sentencing Courts, 4 N.Y.U. JOURNAL OF LAW AND LIBERTY No. 112 (2007)
  • The Unreasonableness of ‘Reasonableness’ Review: Assessing Appellate Jurisprudence in the Post-Booker Era, 18 FED. SEN. REPORTER ISSUE 3 (2006)
  • Social Psychology, Legitimacy, and the Ethical Foundations of Judgment: Importing the Procedural Justice Model to Federal Sentencing Jurisprudence, 38 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 115 (2006)
  • Implementing the Heartland Departure in a Post-Booker World, 32 AMER. J. OF CRIM. L. 133 (2005)
  • Introducing the Heartland Departure, 27 HARVARD J. OF LAW AND PUB. POL’Y 643 (2004)
  • Taking God Out of the Hospital: Requiring Parents to Seek Medical Care for their Children Regardless of Religious Belief, 6 TEXAS FORUM ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES 47 (2001)
  • Reaching Across Legal Boundaries: How Mediation Can Help the Criminal Law in Adjudicating ‘Crimes of Addiction, 16 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RES. 335 (2001)