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Prof. Andrew Schepard Speaks on Adapting Mediation and Arbitration to Divorce...
Andrew Schepard, the senior associate dean for academic affairs and Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law, on Feb. 24, 2016, served as a panelist for “Med-Arb: Getting Past the Impasse.” The...
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Hofstra Law Team Reaches Semifinals in 2016 Transactional LawMeet Competition
The Hofstra Law team of third-year students Thomas Haley, Michael Senders and Leron Solomon was a semifinalist in the New England Regional Meet of the seventh annual Transactional LawMeet Competition....
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Mock Trial Team Reaches Finals in 2016 Capitol City Challenge
The Hofstra Law team of Alexis Fallon 1L, Reid Harris 2L, Dylan Nesturrick 1L and Mishal Pahrand 2L was a finalist in the eighth annual Capitol City Challenge, held from Feb. 25-28, 2016, at the new...
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Article Notes ‘Valuable Amicus Brief’ on Which Prof. James Sample Consulted...
Ethics 101: The Same Person Cannot Serve as Prosecutor and Judge in the Same Case. The Supreme Court Needs to Say So By Dorothy Samuels The Huffington Post Feb. 25, 2016 | Updated Feb. 26, 2016...
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Prof. Amy Stein Presents at Nassau County Bar Association Bridge the Gap CLE...
Professor Amy R. Stein gave the presentation “The Write Stuff: Tips for Clear and Effective Legal Writing” on Feb. 27, 2016, at the Nassau County Bar Association. Her presentation was part of the...
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Prof. Susan Joffe Judges Briefs for 2016 National Moot Court Competition in...
Professor Susan H. Joffe served as a brief judge for the 2016 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law. The annual competition is sponsored by the Family and Youth Law Center...
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Prof. Ronald Colombo Co-Chairs Conference on Legal and Regulatory Challenges...
Professor Ronald J. Colombo co-chaired the conference “The Developing Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Bitcoin and Other Virtual Currencies” at Hofstra Law on March 3, 2016. The conference brought...
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Prof. Andrew Schepard Gives Closing Address at DePaul College of Law Family...
Andrew Schepard, the senior associate dean for academic affairs and Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law, was the closing speaker at the DePaul University College of Law Schiller, DuCanto &...
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Dispute Resolution Team Makes First-Ever Appearance in Final Rounds of ABA...
Hofstra Law’s Dispute Resolution Society team of Izabela Jargilo 2L and Jyllian Schwendeman 2L competed on Feb. 5-6, 2016, in the final rounds of the 2015-2016 ABA Law Student Division Negotiation...
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Prof. Katrina Kuh Presents at Yale Environmental Law Association’s 2016 New...
Katrina Fischer Kuh presented the talk “Limits to Regulating Individual Behavior” on Feb. 26, 2016, at the sixth annual New Directions in Environmental Law Conference: “Cascading Change: Innovation,...
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Prof. Theo Liebmann Comments in New York Times Story on Undocumented...
Immigrant Crime Victims Seeking Special Visas Find a Tough Path By Liz Robbins The New York Times March 8, 2015 Excerpt: The legislation granting visas to victims of certain crimes has been in place...
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Prof. Stefan Krieger Shares Insights on Legal Storytelling in Interactive Web...
Professor Stefan Krieger was interviewed, along with over 180 other experts on the nature of storytelling in a variety of fields, for a new interactive web documentary, Biology of Story. The...
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Mock Trial Team Reaches Regional Semifinals of American Association for...
The Hofstra Law Mock Trial team of Stephen Boniberger 2L, Scott Migden 2L, C. Nneka Nzekwu 3L and Michael Santos 1L was a semifinalist in New York Regional of the American Association for Justice 2016...
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Prof. Joanna Grossman Receives National Endowment for Humanities Grant for...
Joanna L. Grossman, the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 Summer Stipends award for her project “The Mother (and...
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Prof. Elizabeth Nevins Participates in Roundtable on Proposed Revisions to...
Professor Elizabeth M. Nevins on March 4, 2016, participated in a roundtable discussion on ethical issues in representing criminal defendants with mental illness. The roundtable, which was held at New...
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Prof. Michael Haber Speaks on Private Foundations
Professor Michael Haber presented the talk “Old Money in the Next System: Transforming Private Foundations” at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies on March 12, 2016. The talk...
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Prof. Linda Galler Speaks at 2016 PLI Program on Tax Penalties
Professor Linda Galler was a featured speaker on March 14, 2016, at the daylong program “Nuts and Bolts of Tax Penalties 2016: A Primer on the Standards, Procedures and Defenses Relating to Civil and...
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Hofstra Law Students Win Lifesaving Asylum Case
Hofstra Law students in the Asylum Clinic on March 18, 2016, won a lifesaving case for their client, allowing her to stay in the United States and avoid religious persecution in her home country. Under...
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Mentorship Program Spotlight: Helene Weiss 3L and Rebecca Abensur ’10
In fall 2015, Hofstra Law launched a pilot 3L Mentorship Program that pairs third-year law students with alumni working in the students’ fields of interest. The goal of the program is to help...
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Mentorship Program Spotlight: Michael Cuttitta 3L and Daniel Vaillant ’08
In fall 2015, Hofstra Law launched a pilot 3L Mentorship Program that pairs third-year law students with alumni working in the students’ fields of interest. The goal of the program is to help...
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