Belmont University

Nino Monea

Assistant Professor

College of Law

B.S., East Michigan University; J.D. Harvard University

(615) 460-5248
nino.monea@belmont.edu

Biography

Professor Nino C. Monea is an Assistant Professor at Belmont University College of Law, teaching Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, National Security, and Evidence. His research focuses on structural inequalities in the criminal justice system, the need for democratic legitimacy in judicial institutions, and the role of the military in society. His work has been cited by state, federal, territorial, and military courts, as well as state attorneys general and state legislatures. He previously taught at Stetson Law School and the United States Military Academy (West Point).

Professor Monea graduated from Eastern Michigan University and Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal on Legislation and Student Body President. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Bridget Mary McCormack on the Michigan Supreme Court and then commissioned in the United States Army, Judge Advocate General Corps. On active-duty, he served as a legal assistance attorney, Special Assistant United States Attorney, and military prosecutor. He also deployed with a Special Operations Command task force, advising on counterterrorism and diplomatic operations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

Professor Monea continues to serve in the United States Army Reserve as a Senior Defense Counsel and is a Fellow with the National Institute of Military Justice.
SSRN Publications

Nino Monea, Prejudicial to Justice, 59 Arizona State Law Review 1 (Forthcoming)

Nino Monea, Could Donald Trump Be Legally Stopped from Running for President? An Analysis of Bar-to-Office Pleas and Probation Terms, 17 Charleston L. Rev. 315 (2023)

Nino Monea, Is the Contempt Power Obsolete?, 127 Dickinson Law Review 411 (2023)

Nino Monea, The Federalization of Military Law, 29 Widener L. Rev. 21 (2023)

Nino Monea, Disparities on Judicial Conduct Commissions, Marquette Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 1 (2023)

Nino Monea, Low Income, Poor Outcome: Unequal Treatment of Indigent Defendants, Wayne Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2 (2022)

Nino Monea, Eviction Moratorium Litigation: What Courts Said, and What Courts Missed, 51 U. Balt. L. Rev. 185 (2022)

Nino Monea, A Constitutional History of Debtors' Prisons, 14 Drexel L. Rev. 1 (2022)

Nino Monea, Tenant Protections in the COVID-19 Pandemic, 22 Journal of Law and Society 38 (2022)

Nino Monea, What’s the Most Defense Friendly Jurisdiction in America? The Military., 49 Ohio N. Univ. L. Rev. 53 (2022)

Nino Monea, The Political Roots of Judicial Elections, 55 Creighton L. Rev. 427 (2022)

Nino Monea, The Legal Benefits of Homeownership, 52 N.M. L. Rev. 384 (2022)

Nino Monea, An Officer and a Gentlewoman: Why Congress Should Modernize Article 133 of the UCMJ, Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1 (2022)

Nino Monea, CAAF, by the Numbers: An Empirical Study of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 1 (2022)

Nino Monea, State Constitutional Rights to Bear Arms Ten Years After Heller/McDonald, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 82 (2021)

Nino Monea, The Fall of Grand Juries, Northeastern University Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2020)

Nino Monea, Grand Juries on the Grand River: A History of Citizen Grand Jury Investigations in Lansing, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 2 (2020)

Nino Monea, Reforming Military Juries in the Wake of Ramos v. Louisiana, 66 Naval L. Rev. 67 (2020)

Nino Monea, Vanguards of Democracy: Juries as Forerunners of Representative Government, 28 UCLA Women's L. J. 169 (2020)

Nino Monea, Going Rogue: Independent Grand Juries Throughout America, 72 Maine L. Rev. 275 (2020)

Nino Monea, The Reprieve Power: May the Uniform Code of Military Justice Limit Executive Clemency?, 123 W. Va. L. Rev. 547 (2020)

Nino Monea, Cities V. Big Pharma: Municipal Affirmative Litigation and the Opioid Crisis, The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 50, No. 1 (2019)

Nino Monea, Bulwark of Equality: The Jury in America, 122 W. Va. L. Rev. 513 (2019)

Nino Monea, The Administrative Power: How State Courts Can Expand Access to Justice, 53 Gonzaga Law Review 207 (2018)

Nino Monea, Let's Work to End Homelessness, not Disguise It, Harvard Law & Policy Review Online (2016)

Nino Monea, No Child should Have to Face a Judge without a Lawyer, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Online (2016)

Nino Monea, Next on the Chopping Block: The Litigation Campaign against Race-Conscious Policies Beyond Affirmative Action in University Admissions, Boston University Public Interest Journal (forthcoming)

Nino Monea, Just How Paternalistic is the VA? An Examination of the 'Non-Adversarial' Veterans’ Benefits System, 126 W. Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming)

Nino Monea, A Tale of Two Committees: Comparing Police Officer Standard and Training (POST) Bodies, L.J. Soc. Just. (forthcoming)

Nino Monea, Federal Judicial Misconduct: The Need for Higher Standards on Lower Courts, 70 Villanova Law Review (forthcoming)

Nino Monea and James Tatum, State Sanctioned Fraud, 4 Texas Tech Business & Bankruptcy Law Journal 1