| Dan O'Halloran
Website:
http://www.normannii.org
Telephone: (516) 248-9595
Located in: Whitestone, New York
Skill/Service Details: Dan is a priest of Tiw, God of Order and Law,
the Skyfather of the Germanic Folk. He has been an active force in
the Heathen Reawakening for over 15 years within the Asatru
community where he is a credentialed Elder of the Ring of Troth.
He attended Fordham University in the Honors program from 1989-1990,
majoring in Anthropology and Criminal Justice, while on a U.S. Air
Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. He withdrew from
college and was employed by the New York City Police Department from
1990-1992, first assigned to the Police Academy as a Police Cadet
and Recruit, then assigned to the 48th and 109th Police Precincts in
the Community Patrol Program. In 1992 he resigned and entered
private sector employment with Ogden Allied Security, Government
Contracts Division, as an Off-Hours Inspector & Supervisor.
Eventually he was assigned to Department of Defense contracts, as a
Site Supervisor and was cleared by the U.S. Department of Defense to
SECRET. Mr. Halloran returned to school in 1995 and obtained a
Bachelors of Arts in History and Anthropology in 1997 from City
University of New York at Queens College, graduating cum laude and
completing all but dissertation on a Master of Arts degree in
Archaeology. He performed field research in County Cork, Ireland in
1996-97 in the archaeology of the Norman and Viking periods, and
their impact on Germanic and Brehon Common Law. He was published in
several archaeological and anthropological journals and in a variety
of Pagan and Heathen magazines, notably IDUNNA, "Germanic Origins &
the Law", Austin, TX: 1997, OUR TROTH, "Indo European Origins, " and
"Germanic Common Law, " ROT Publications, Seattle, WA:1996.
Mr. Halloran attended St. John's University School of Law on
scholarship, and earned a Juris Doctor in 2000; he was President of
the Federalist Society, Secretary of the Student Bar Association, a
member of the Irish Law Society, a Member of the Board and Senior
Bar of the Criminal Law Institute; Best Advocate in the Frank J.
Rogers Criminal Trial Competition in 2000, and Runner-Up Best
Advocate in both the 1999 & 2000 Civil Trial Competitions. Mr.
Halloran co-edited the Fall 1999 New York State Bar Association,
Criminal Justice Journal article, "A History of Criminal Law"; and
personally authored the Sections from Germanic Origins through the
Colonial Period. He likewise co-edited and co-authored the Spring
2000 edition's examination of Miranda Rights in New York, in "Life
After Dickerson".
In 1998 he interned as a clerk for the Honorable Robert J. Hanophy,
J.S.C. in New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, Criminal
Term, one of Capital Case qualified parts of Supreme Court. In the
spring of 1999 he was hired by the Office of the Bronx County
District Attorney, as a Legal Assistant in the Grand Jury and
Criminal Court Bureaus. In September of 1999 he was appointed a
Special Assistant in the Office of the District Attorney of the
County of the Bronx, and assigned to the Appeals Bureau. In January
of 2000, he was appointed a Special Assistant in Queens County and
assigned to the Criminal Court Bureau.
Mr. Halloran was thereafter accepted into the LL.M. program of the
State University of New York at Buffalo with a tuition remission
scholarship, and commenced studies in the fall of 2000. In October
of 2000 he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in
Erie County and assigned to the Homicide Bureau. He completed
studies for the LL.M. program in Criminal Law in the spring of 2001,
whereupon he returned to New York City. He continues work on his
Doctor of Laws, where he is all but dissertation, and will be
publishing a thesis on the Celtic and Germanic Sources of the Common
Law with a focus on the Heathen roots of the law.
Mr. Halloran is a member of the International Bar Association,
Federal Bar Association, Association of Federal Criminal Defense
Attorneys, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association,
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State
Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America,
the New York State Defenders Association, and the Nassau, Queens,
and New York County Bar Associations. He is admitted to the New York
State Bar and the Federal Bars of the Northern, Southern, Western,
and Eastern Districts of New York. He holds a Vigil Honor from the
Boy Scout's of America and is a member of the National Eagle Scout
Association, where he still does volunteer work..
He acted as the incorporating attorney for NYC Pagan Pride and is
willing to assist local pagans and heathens at a discounted rate.
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