Mock Trial Team Reaches Finals in 2015 Peter James Johnson National Civil...
Hofstra Law students C. Nneka Nzekwu 3L, Thaxsheni Sivarajah 3L, Andrew Weiss 2L and Felicia Winder 3L were finalists in the 2015 Peter James Johnson National Civil Rights Competition, the only...
View ArticleProf. Mike Haber Presents at ClassCrits VIII Conference
Professor Michael Haber presented “CED After #OWS: From Community Economic Development to Anti-Authoritarian Community Counter-Institutions” at the ClassCrits VIII conference on Oct. 23, 2015. The...
View ArticleHofstra Law to Host Free Veterans Legal Clinic on Nov. 14
Hofstra Law will be hosting a free Veterans Legal Clinic on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at the Law School. The clinic is open to all veterans and offers a free consultation with attorneys who specialize...
View ArticleNewsday Features Youth Advocacy Clinic in Story on Immigrant Youth in Family...
Newsday spoke with Professor Theo Liebmann, director of Hofstra Law’s Youth Advocacy Clinic, and third-year students Kristy Candela, Dana Dohn and Ivy Waisbord for a Nov. 3, 2015, article on access to...
View ArticleDispute Resolution Society Kicks Off Semester With 2 Strong Showings
Hofstra Law’s Dispute Resolution Society sent three teams to the 2015-2016 ABA Law School Division Negotiation Competition at Cardozo School of Law on Nov. 1-2. The competition simulates legal...
View ArticleProf. Herbie DiFonzo Co-Presents ‘Master Class’ on ‘Third Party Access to...
Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo and Professor Martin Guggenheim of NYU School of Law were invited by the New York City Family Court Judges Association to co-present a “Master Class” on Oct. 30, 2015. Their...
View ArticleProf. Herbie DiFonzo Presents at ‘Constitutional Law and Legal History: The...
Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo presented “Before the ‘Best Interests of the Child’: Child Custody Presumptions in Nineteenth-Century America” at the conference “Constitutional Law and Legal History: The...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Quoted in Reuters Story on USS Lassen’s Patrol in South China...
U.S. patrol sought to avoid provocation, not reinforce China island claim: officials By Andrea Shalal and David Brunnstrom Reuters Nov. 7, 2015 Excerpt: Julian Ku, a professor of constitutional law at...
View ArticleProf. Linda Galler Quoted in Bloomberg BNA Story on Federal Appeals Court’s...
Documents Shared With Bank Consortium Were Privileged By Erin McManus Bloomberg BNA Nov. 10, 2015 Excerpt: Linda Galler, a professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, told...
View ArticleProf. Eric M. Freedman Quoted in New York Times Story on Overturning of...
Federal Appeals Panel Overturns Anti-Death Penalty Ruling in California By Erik Eckholm The New York Times Nov. 12, 2015 Excerpt: Many legal experts said the ruling was expected because of the strong...
View ArticleProf. James Sample Comments for News 12 Report on New York Attorney General’s...
Professor James Sample appeared in a Nov. 11, 2015, News 12 Long Island report on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s decision to order daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel...
View ArticleProf. James Sample Article on Pro-Electorate Changes in Election Law in...
Professor James Sample’s article “The Electorate as More Than Afterthought” was published in the University of Chicago Legal Forum (2015 University of Chicago Legal Forum 383). The article appears in...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Quoted in The Fiscal Times and The Plain Dealer on Invoking...
3 Reasons France Hasn’t Asked NATO to Fight ISIS By Rob Garver The Fiscal Times Nov. 17, 2015 Excerpt: Another reason, according to Hofstra University Law Professor Julian Ku, is that the facts on the...
View ArticleProf. Herbie DiFonzo Presents ‘National Trends in Parenting Plans’ at...
Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo presented “National Trends in Parenting Plans” at the Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem Annual Conference, “Time and Money: Changing Trends in Parenting Plans,...
View ArticleProf. Linda Galler Discusses Federal Appeals Court’s Attorney-Client...
2nd Circ. Ruling Holds Lessons On Protecting Legal Advice By Eric Kroh Law360 Nov. 20, 2015 Excerpt: Linda Galler, a professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and senior tax...
View ArticleProf. Linda Galler Speaks on Ethics Issues at Oil and Gas Tax Conference
Professor Linda Galler was a featured panelist on Nov. 20, 2015, at the 13th Biennial Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference in Houston, Texas. This national conference, co-sponsored by the...
View ArticleProf. James Sample’s Panel Discussion Remarks Published in Symposium Issue of...
Remarks by Professor James Sample for the panel “Caperton and the Courts: Did the Floodgates Open?” were published in the issue of the N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy on the symposium...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Testifies on Paris Int’l Climate Change Negotiations at...
Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, testified on Nov. 18, 2015, at the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the upcoming...
View ArticleProf. Amy Stein Serves as Brief Grader for 2015-2016 Northeast Regional...
Professor Amy R. Stein served as a brief grader for the 2015-2016 Northeast Regional Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition, a national competition sponsored by the National Black Law Students...
View ArticleProf. Scott Colesanti and Victoria Short 2L Publish Article on Bitcoin...
Professor J. Scott Colesanti and second-year student Victoria L. Short co-authored the article “Bitcoin Regulation: Four Tempests in 50 Teapots,” which appears in the December 2015 issue of The Suffolk...
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