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Prof. Ronald Colombo Quoted in Financial Planning on Diversity in FINRA’s...
FINRA Diversifies Arbitrator Pool, With a Long Road Ahead By James Thorne Financial Planning Sept. 21, 2017 Excerpt: As its list of partnerships reveal, FINRA’s recruitment efforts tend to cluster...
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Prof. Alafair Burke Provides Ethics Training to Nassau County District...
Professor Alafair Burke presented “The Effects of Heuristics on Prosecutorial Discretion” to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office on Sept. 15. Her class uses principles of cognitive psychology...
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Prof. Alafair Burke Is Keynote Speaker at New England Law Review Symposium
On Sept. 21, Professor Alafair Burke presented her article “Why Fiction?” at the New England Law Review symposium “The Novelization of the Criminal Justice System & Its Effect on Pop Culture,”...
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Prof. Ronald Colombo Assumes Authorship of Corporate Law Treatise
Beginning with the forthcoming 2017-18 edition, Professor Ronald J. Colombo has assumed authorship of the corporate law treatise Liability of Corporate Officers and Directors, published by Thomson...
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Newsday Highlights Effort by Hofstra Law Students to Help Dreamers Renew DACA...
On Saturday, Sept. 30, thirty students from Hofstra Law’s Clinical Programs conducted a clinic at the Salvadoran consulate in Brentwood, New York, to help immigrants renew their Deferred Action for...
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PreLaw Magazine Ranks Hofstra Law 4th Nationally for Most Improved Employment...
PreLaw magazine has ranked Hofstra Law 4th among all U.S. law schools for the most improvement in the employment rate for graduates from the Classes of 2011 through 2016. The rankings are announced in...
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Hofstra Law Named a Top School for Health Law by preLaw Magazine
PreLaw magazine has awarded Hofstra Law an “A” rating for its Health Law offerings. The ratings are announced in preLaw’s Back to School 2017 issue in the article “Top Schools for Criminal Law, Human...
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The Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, to Sit at the Maurice A....
On October 16, 2017, the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, will hold one of its two sittings that day at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Presiding over the...
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Prof. Barbara Barron Directs, Teaches NITA Skills Course on Investigative...
Professor Barbara S. Barron was program director and lead teacher for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy visionaries investigative techniques skills course conducted at the Security and Exchange...
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Prof. Ronald Colombo Invited to Address the Nassau County Bar Association
Professor Ronald J. Colombo has been invited to address the Nassau County Bar Association on Oct. 23 to discuss the challenge of balancing religious liberty with other cherished civil rights. The post...
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Prof. Barbara Barron Directs NITA Course on Evidentiary Foundations for LEAP
On October 2-3, Professor Barbara S. Barron was the program director for a course on evidentiary foundations for LEAP, an educational consortium of New York City public interest legal services...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Speak at the Maurice A. Deane...
The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will be visiting the Maurice A. Deane School of Law for a wide-ranging conversation about her journey from...
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Prof. Julian Ku Discusses Jesner v Arab Bank and the Alien Tort Statute on...
Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, together with Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, appeared on the show Bloomberg...
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Prof. Baruch Bush Receives 2017 Kreider Award From Association for Conflict...
Robert A. Baruch Bush, the Harry H. Rains Distinguished Professor of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Settlement Law, together with Professor Joseph P. Folger of Temple University, his longtime...
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Hofstra Law Mock Trial Team Wins Fall 2017 Queens DA’s Office Mock Trial...
The team of Hofstra Law students (second through fifth from left in photo) Dylan Nesturrick 3L, Kimberly Wilkens 2L, Elizabeth Johannesen 3L and Allison Stapleton 3L won the Queens District Attorney’s...
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Prof. Ashira Ostrow Comments in Newsday Story on Disputed OTB Video Lottery...
LI casino’s future awaits ruling on obscure legal question By Carl MacGowan Newsday Oct. 14, 2017 Excerpt: The issue in this case is whether hotels customarily house casinos, or whether such...
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Prof. Ronald Colombo to Participate in Live Webcast on Kokesh v. SEC
On Nov. 13, Professor Ronald J. Colombo will join two other panelists to present a course on “The Kokesh v. SEC Ruling: Significant Implications for Financial Regulatory Investigations” in a live...
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Prof. Barbara Barron Conducts Seminar for ABA Rule of Law Initiative Senior...
On Oct. 12-13, Professor Barbara S. Barron conducted a seminar on interactive teaching methodology for a group of senior management staff at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative...
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Prof. Ellen Yaroshefsky Provides Ethics Opinion in Guantanamo Bay War Court...
On Oct. 13, the Miami Herald published the story “Guantánamo’s USS Cole Death-Penalty Case in Limbo After Key Defense Lawyer Quits” about the decision by all three members civilian legal team to quit...
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Prof. Stefan Krieger Presents on Electronic Evidence to NYS Association of...
On Oct. 20, Professor Stefan Krieger gave a presentation at the New York State Association of Surrogates fall meeting in Cooperstown, New York. In his talk, “Evidence Update: Admissibility of...
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