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H. SCOTT FINGERHUT
Assistant Director, Trial Advocacy Program
& Honors College Fellow
(305) 348-3182 (phone)
fingerhut@fiu.edu

•  B.A., University of Virginia
•  J.D., Emory University School of Law

Fingerhut comes to the College of Law with over 12 years of law teaching experience and 20 years as a criminal trial and appellate litigator.  He is the Assistant Director of the Trial Advocacy Program and teaches trial and pretrial litigation and advocacy.  He also teaches criminal procedure, advanced criminal procedure, Florida criminal law and procedure, and the criminal law clinic.  Before joining the College of Law faculty, Fingerhut held a four-year appointment in FIU’s School of Policy and Management, teaching criminal constitutional law and procedure, criminal law theory, law and social control, and judicial process and policy.   Before that, he taught litigation skills and professionalism at the University of Miami School of Law, and still teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in its Florida Regional Program. A frequent lecturer to judges, lawyers, and legal scholars has written numerous essays and articles on liberty and justice issues. Fingerhut currently chairs The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee and serves on both the Executive Council of The Bar’s Criminal Law Section and The Bar’s Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education.  For the third year running, Fingerhut chairs the Criminal Court Committee of the Dade County Bar Association while continuing his service on the board of directors of Friends of the Miami-Dade Drug Court, Legal Services of Greater Miami, the South Florida Mental Health Association, Court Care, and the statewide chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, chairing its Pro Bono Committee.  A member of the Development and Finance Committee for the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Fingerhut is Past President of the Miami Chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL-Miami) and the Dade County Bar Designee to the Mayor’s 2005-2007 Mental Health Task Force. Fingerhut was recently honored by the College of Law student body with the 2007 Professor of the Year and Pioneer Awards.

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