Prof. Julian Ku Tells Business Insider Why North Korean Restaurant Chain...
Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, commented in a Business Insider report on North Korea’s “Pyongyang” restaurant chain (named after the capital of North...
View ArticleAssociate Dean Courtney Selby Presents at 2018 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
Courtney Selby, associate dean for information services, director of the law library and professor of law, presented at the 111th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Association of Law...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Comments in Daily Beast Story on China’s Objections to...
Revealed: China’s Stealth Lobbying to Undercut Pentagon Bill By Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian The Daily Beast July 20, 2018 Excerpt: It’s not the first time China has expressed displeasure with the spending...
View ArticleProf. Amy Stein Presents Twice at 2018 Legal Writing Institute National...
Professor Amy R. Stein presented twice at the 18th Biennial Legal Writing Institute Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in mid-July. Her first presentation, titled “Catch the Wave: Teaching Legal...
View ArticleProf. Ellen Yaroshefsky Quoted in Washington Post Story on Ethicality of...
The Fix Michael Cohen secretly recorded Trump. Does that make him a bad lawyer? By Deanna Paul The Washington Post July 26, 2018 Excerpt: What circumstances would justify recording a client? Does...
View ArticleAlumna Deborah Martin Owens ’04 Joins New York City Bar as Head of Diversity...
The New York City Bar Association announced on July 23 that Hofstra Law alumna Deborah Martin Owens ’04 has joined the organization as Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Owens came to the...
View ArticleFamily Court Review Features 2017-18 Siben and Siben Distinguished Lecture in...
The July 2018 issue of the journal Family Court Review (Volume 56, Issue 3) includes a special section on the 2017-2018 Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Lecture in Family Law and the symposium on...
View ArticleHofstra Law to Host Legal Tech Boot Camp
Hofstra Law will be hosting its first Legal Tech Boot Camp on October 6 at the Law School. This single-day educational and networking experience will focus on the role of technology in the practice of...
View ArticleAssoc. Dean Courtney Selby, Reference Librarian Patricia Kasting Speak at...
Courtney Selby, associate dean for information services, director of the law library and professor of law, and Patricia A. Kasting, reference librarian, presented at the Mid-Atlantic Digital Commons...
View ArticleProf. James Sample Writes Invited NBC News Op-Ed on Big Money’s Influence in...
Professor James Sample published the invited op-ed “West Virginia’s High Court Corruption Just the Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Big Money’s Judicial Influence” on Aug. 16 in the NBC News opinion...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Comments in New York Times Story on Import of Taiwan...
Taiwan President Stops in U.S. as Relations Warm, Angering China By Chris Horton The New York Times Aug. 19, 2018 Excerpt: Earlier this year, Mr. Ku of Hofstra Law School was one of several experts who...
View ArticleProf. Allison Caffarone’s Co-Authored Chapter in Treatise Lauded in New York...
Commentary Book Review: Treatise Covers the Bases on the Defense of Civil and Criminal Probes First published in 2011, and now in its fourth edition, this handbook of best practices for handling...
View ArticleProf. Daniel Greenwood’s Scholarship on Why Corporate Speech Is Not Free...
Speech Defects How consumer marketing distorts democracy. By Jim Sleeper The Baffler July 2, 2018 Excerpt: Greenwood explains that “corporate speech is . . . not the result of anyone’s autonomous...
View ArticleProf. Irina Manta Appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Professor Irina D. Manta has been named Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She succeeds Professor Ashira Ostrow, who had...
View ArticleHofstra Law’s Faculty Ranks in Top 50 for Scholarly Impact in 2018
The faculty of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is ranked No. 49 among law school faculties for its scholarly impact in a new study by professors at the University of St. Thomas...
View ArticleProf. Eric M. Freedman Quoted in NY Times Story “Cohen Implicates President...
Cohen Implicates President Trump. What Do Prosecutors Do Now? By Adam Liptak and Jim Rutenberg The New York Times Aug. 21, 2018 Excerpt: The most prominent dissenter from the prevailing view is Eric M....
View ArticleProf. Scott Colesanti Publishes Article in NYLJ on Congressional Insider...
Analysis The Short Arm of Congressional Insider Trading Statutes Fans of market “fairness” at any intellectual cost can rejoice that a difficult hodgepodge of statutes, regulations, and common law...
View ArticleProf. Julian Ku Ranks Among the 20 Most-Cited Originalist Scholars in the US
Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, is ranked No. 19 among the most-cited originalist-oriented scholars in the United States for the years 2013-2017...
View ArticleProf. James Sample Discusses Michael Cohen’s Campaign Finance Violations Plea...
Professor James Sample appeared, via Skype, on the Russian-language daily news program Current Time America to discuss U.S. campaign finance law in the context of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s...
View ArticleProf. Ronald Colombo Comments in Law360 Story on SEC’s Post-Lucia Offer to...
Analysis SEC’s Post-Lucia Case Rehearings Largely for Show By Rachel Graf Law360 Aug. 31, 2018 Excerpt: A controversial decision delivered by an improperly appointed ALJ could be susceptible to...
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