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Spring 2024 Booklist

Please be advised that the list below is pending and subject to change based on updated publisher and faculty information. Check the Bookstore website at hofstra.bncollege.com for complete up to date information.

17A GUARDIANSHIP (Law 4704): Professors Cannon and Gumerove

  • No Textbook

ACCESS TO JUSTICE CHLNGD SCTY (Law 3704): Professor Fisher

  1. Access To Justice; Deborah L. Rhode; 978-0195306484; Oxford University Press; 2004
  2. Plain English for Lawyers; Richard C. Wydick; 978-1531006990;California Academic Press; 6th
  3. Rebooting Justice: More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future of Law Hardcover; Benjamin H. Barton, Stephanos Bibas; 978-1594039331; Ingram Pub; 2017

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (Law 3700): Professor Campbell

  • Federal Administrative Law; Kristin E. Hickman , Richard J. Pierce; Foundation Press; 3rd ed.

ADMIRALTY LAW (Law 2753): Professor Frevola

  • Admiralty and Maritime Law in the United States, Cases and Materials; Robertson, Friedell, Sturley; 978-1531018399; Carolina Academic Press; 4th

ADVANCED BANKRUPTCY (Law 2757): Professor Scarcella

  1. Business Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets; Adam J. Levitin; 978-1-5438-4771-0; Aspen Publishing; 3rd edition
  2. Bankruptcy and Article 9 2023 Statutory Supplement; Warren and Lawless; Aspen Publishing;

ADVANCED LABOR LAW (Law 2865): Professor Fernbach

  1. Labor Law Cases and Materials; Cox, Bok, Gorman, Finkin; 978-1684679812; West Academic; 17th
  2. Labor Law 2023 or 2024 Statutory Appendix; Cox, Bok, Gorman, Finkin,; 9781685619992; West Academic; 2023 or 2024

ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH (Law 3708): Professor Spar

  • No textbooks

ALTERNATIVES TO LITIGATION (Law 3720): Professor Bush

  • No textbooks

ANTITRUST (Law 3732): Professor Tugander

  • Cases and Materials on Modern Antitrust Law and Its Origins; Thomas D. Morgan and Richard J. Pierce, Jr.; West Academic; 7th ed.

APPLIED EVIDENCE (Law 2784): Professor Barron

  1. Federal Rules of Evidence: Rules, Legislative History, Commentary and Authority; 978-1531028046; Carolina Academic Press;
  2. Problems in Evidence; Robert Mosteller, Paul C Gianneelli , Liesa Richter Kenneth Broun; ISBN: 13:978-1683281849; West Academics; 6th ed.
  3. McCormick on Evidence; 978-1684674763; Thompson West; 8th ed

ASYLUM CLINIC (Law 5801): Professor Wren

  • AILA Asylum Primer; Dree K. Collopy; 978-1573705110; AILA Pub; 9th ed.

BANKRUPTCY (Law 3794): Professor Rosenfeld

  • Bankruptcy: Cases and Materials; Margaret Howard, G. Eric Brunstad, Jr; 9781636590554; West Academics; 7th ed.

BUSINESS & LAW OF MARIJUANA (Law 2737): Professor Cooper

  • No textbooks

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (Law 4701): Professor Greenwood

  1. Business Associations; Stephen Bainbridge; 978-1-63659-431-6; Foundation Press; 11th ed.
  2. Business Organization and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles; William A. Klein & John C. Coffee; 978-1599414492; Foundation Press; 11th ed.

CLINIC PRACTICUM (Law 2751): Professor Liebmann

  • No textbook

CLINICAL BIOETHICS II (Law 3992): Professor Dolgin

  • No textbook required. Materials will be available through TWEN.;

CLINICAL PROSECUTION PRACTICUM (Law 3820): Professor Klein

  • No textbook

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Law 3740): Professor Fernbach

  • Getting To Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In; Fisher, Ury, Patton; 978-0143118756; Penguin Books; copyright 2011

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CLINIC (Law 5805): Professor Ryu

  • Introduction To Transactional Lawering Practice; Alicia Alvarez & Paul R. Tremblay; 978-1642427950; West Academics; 2nd ed., 2022

COMPUTER TECHN. LEG. PRACTICE (Law 2709): Professor Tsiforas

  • No textbook

CONFLICT OF LAWS (Law 3755): Professor McElroy

  • No textbook

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I (Law 3760): Professor Sample

  • Constitutional Law; Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, Mark V. Tushnet, and Pamela S. Karlan; Aspen; 9th ed.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I (Law 3760): Professor Freedman

  1. A History of the American Constitution; Farber & Sherry; 9780314289711; West Academics; 3rd ed. 2013
  2. Constitutional Law;Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet,; 9781543838510; Aspen; 9th ed.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1 (Law 3760): Professor Sinha

  • Constitutional Law: A Contemporary Approach; Gregory E. Maggs and Peter J. Smith; 9781685614669; West Academics; 6th ed.

CONTRACTS (Law 1705): Professor Silber

  1. Studies in Contract Law; Ian Ayres, Gregory M. Klass; ISBN: 9781634603256 Casebook Plus ISBN: 9781634606776; West Academics; 9th ed. 2017
  2. Contract Law: Selected Source Materials Annotated; Steven J. Burton, Melvin A. Eisenberg; ISBN: 9798887860077; West Academics; 2023 Expanded Edition

CONTRACTS (Law 1705): Professor Colombo

  1. Studies in Contract Law; Ian Ayres, Gregory M. Klass; 978-1634606776; West Academics; 9th ed. 2017 (the Casebook)
  2. Selections for Contracts; Farnsworth et al eds. (the Statutory Supplement); 979-8887860244; West Academics; 2023
  3. Black's Law Dictionary (highly recommended but not required)

CONTRACTS (Law 1705): Professor Lyman

  1. Contracts: Transactions and Litigation (5th Edition); Kuney and Lloyd; 9781684674558; West Acad; 5th
  2. Selections for Contracts 2023; Farnsworth, Sanger et al; 979-8887860244; West Acad; 2023
  3. Examples and Explanations: Contracts; Brian Blum; 9781543807639; Aspen; 8th

CORPORATE COMPLIANCE & ETHICS (Law 2738): Professor Black

  • The Law of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance; Geoffrey Parsons Miller; 978-1543812763; Aspen; 3rd edition

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLINIC (Law 5800): Professor Nevins

  • Criminal Law Handbook of the State of NY; LexisNexis; 9781663350152; LexisNexis; 2023 version or 2024 if available

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE I (Law 4751): Professor Malave

  • Criminal Procedure: Investigations, Cases and Materials; Lee & Richardson; 9781647086190; West Academics; 3rd

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE I (Law 4751): Professor Klein

  • Basic Criminal Procedure; Kamisar; 978-1683289890; West Academic; 15th

CRIMMIGRATION LAW (Law 2815): Professor Gaudio

  • Crimmigration Law; César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Hernández; 9781641059459; ABA; 2nd ed., 2022

DEPORTATION DEFENSE CLINIC (Law 5811): Professor Holtzman

  • No textbook

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Law 3792): Professor Barron

  • Domestic Violence Law; Lemon; 978-1683289142; West Acad; 5th

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIM LAW (Law 3806): Professor Damiano

  • Employment Discrimination, Procedure, Principles and Practice; Joseph A Seiner; ISBN: 13: 9781543857825; Aspen; 3rd edition
  • ISBN 10: 1543857825;

ENVIRONMENTAL DIS RESOLUTION (Law 2728): Professor Siegel

  • Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator; Lucy Moore; 9781610914116; UCP; 2013

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Law 3812): Professor Esterman

  • Environmental Law and Policy Concepts and Series Insights Series; Salzman and Thompson; 978-1683287902; West Acad; 5th

ESTATE PLANNING (Law 2838): Professor David

  1. Pennell's Estate Planning and Drafting 3d. 978-1647086596; West Academics;
  2. Lynn and McCounch's Introduction to Estate Planning in a Nutshell 978-1642425987; West Academics; 7th

ETHICAL PROB/FED TAX PRACTICE (Law 2833): Professor Galler

  1. Regulation of Tax Practice; Galler and Lang; 978-1639052998; Carolina Academic Press; 2023
  2. Recommended : ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct 978-1639052998; 2023

ETHICS IN CRIMINAL ADVOCACY (Law 2786): Professor Yaroshefsky

  • No Textbook

EVIDENCE (Law 4761): Professor Krieger

  1. Problems in Evidence; Robert Mosteller, Paul C. Gianneelli, Liesa Richter, and Kenneth Broun; ISBN-13: 978-1683281849 ISBN- 10: 1683281845; West Acad; 6th
  2. McCormick on Evidence (Student Edition); Robert Mosteller; ISBN-13: 978-1684674763 ISBN-10: 168467476X; West Acad; 8th
  3. Federal Rules of Evidence; Christopher B. Mueller & Laird C. Kirkpatrick; Digital ISBN 979-8889062257; Aspen; 2023

EVIDENCE (Law 4761): Professor Caffarone

  • Evidence; George Fisher; 978-1609300609; West Acad; 3 rd

EXPERT WITNESS - HOMICIDE (Law 2985): Professor Kessler

  • Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science; Saferstein; 978-0135218310; Pearson; 13th

EXPERT WITNESS IN CIVIL CASES (Law 3601): Professor Freedman

  • Effective Expert Testimony;David Malone and Paul Zwier (National Institute of Trial dvocacy) Zwier; 9781601563408; Aspen; 3rd
  • Federal Rules of Evidence; Capra; 979-8-88786-013-8; West Academics; 2023-2024 Edition

EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM, MATRIMONIAL (Law 3825): Professor Maffei

EXTERNSHIP SEM, LABOR & EMPLOY (Law 2526): Professor Fernbach

  • No textbook

EXTERNSHIP SEMINAR, CIVIL (Law 2506): Professors DeCarlo and Sachs

  • No textbook

EXTERNSHIP SEMINAR, CRIMINAL (Law 2507): Professor Klein

  • No textbook

EXTERNSHIP SEMINAR, JUDICIAL (Law 2520): Professor Fisher

  • No textbook

EXTERNSHIP SEMINAR, MATRIMONL (Law 2523): Professor Maffei

  • No textbook

FAMILY LAW (Law 3831): Professor Schepard

  • Work of the Family Lawyer;Robert E. Oliphant & Nancy Ver Steegh,; 978-1543804539; Aspen; 5th

FAMILY LAW (Law 3831): Professor Stark

  • Contemporary Family Law; Douglas E. Abrams, Naomi R. Cahn, Linda C. McClain, Catherine J. Ross, Kaiponanea T. Matsumura, Jessica Dixon Ewaver; ISBN: 9781642428605; West Academics; 6th Ed.

FAMILY LAW PRACTICUM (Law 3817): Professors Meller and Ombres

  • No textbook

FED INCOME TAXATION OF CORPS (Law 3785): Professor Galler

  1. Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations; Lathrope; 978-1685614386; West Acad; 2023 or 2024
  2. Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation; Schwarz and Lathrope; 978-1642428780; West Acad; 10th

FEDERAL TAX PROCEDURE (Law 2843): Professor Caine

  • Tax Controversies Practice and Procedures; Leandra Lederman, Stephen Mazza; ISBN : 9781531004200 eISBN: 9781531004217; 4th ed. 2018

GLOBAL COMPLIANCE IN DGTL AGE (Law 2724): Professor Kriftcher

  • No textbook

HEALTH LAW (Law 3844): Professor Jakimo

  • Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, Abridged; Clark; 9781684677122;American Casebook Series; 9th

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SURVEY (Law 3871): Professor Platt

  • No textbook

INTERNATIONAL LAW (Law 3881): Professor Stark

  • International Law: Cases and Commentary; Janis, Noyes, and Sadat; 978-1642425864; West Academics; 6th ed.

INTRO TO AMER LGL SYS PRT I (Law 2521): Professor Ku

  • No textbook

INTRO TO ASSET MGT LGL & COMPL (Law 2735): Professors Kutner and Mastronardi

  • No textbook

LAW'S RESPONSE TO REPRO TECH (Law 2796): Professor Dunbrook

  • Reproductive Technologies and the Law; Judith Daae, Glenn Cohen, Seema Mohapatra, Sonia M. Suter; 978-1-5310-1525-1; Carolina Academic Press; 2022 3rd ed.

LAW AND MEDICINE, TOGETHER (Law 2957): Professor Mondesir-vis

  • No textbook

LAW AND PSYCHIATRY (Law 3907): Professors Wolf and Stern

LAWYERS AS LEADERS (Law 3606): Professor Folami

  • No textbook

LAWYERS' ETHICS (Law 2897): Professor Gundlach

  1. Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics; Stephen Gillers; 9781543825862; Aspen; 12th ed. 2021
  2. Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law : Models Rules, State Variations, and Practice Questions; Lisa Lerman and Phillip Schrag; Digital ISBN: 979-8886143782; Aspen; 2023-24 ed.

LAWYERS' ETHICS (Law 2897): Professor Harrison

  1. Professional Responsibility , Problems of Practice and the Profession; Nathan Crystal and Grace Giesel; ISBN: 978-1-5438-1073-8; Wolters Kluwer; 7th ed.
  2. ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct 978-1639052998; 2023 ed.

LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT (Law 2729): Professor Finley

  • How to start and build a law practice; Jay G. Foonberg; 978-1590312476; 5th ed.

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor Colesanti

  • Oral Advocacy: Style and Substance; J. Scott Colesanti; Ê9781531005634; Carolina Academic Press;

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor Greene

  • Same as Fall semester and Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Arguments 978-1609303082; West Acad; 8th

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor Franzella

  1. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing. ISBN: 9781543810851; Aspen; 9th ed.
  2. Bluebook ISBN: 978-0578666150; 21st ed.

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor Weintraub

  • Same as Fall + Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Arguments

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor Stein

  • Same as Fall + Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Arguments Research, Writing and Arguments978-1609303082; West Acad; 8th

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor McElroy

  • Same as Fall for L1720

LEG. ANALYSIS WRTG. & RES. II (Law 2783): Professor White

  • Same as Fall for L1720

LEGAL INTRVWG COUNSLNG & NGTN (Law 2906): Professor Sethi

  • Lawyers and Clients: Critical issues in Interviewing and Counseling; Steven Ellmann et al.; 978-0314235312; West Acad; 2009

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Lefton

  • No textbook

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Louis

  • No textbook

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Caporale

  • No textbook

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Caporale

  • No textbook

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Louis

  • No textbook

LEGAL METHODS (Law 1750): Professor Damiano

  • No textbook

LGL SKLLS UNDR REP FED LITIGNT (Law 2741): Professors Gundlach and Wong

  • Gundlach - No textbook

MEDIATION PRNCPLS & PRACTICE (Law 3922): Professor Diamond

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (Law 2920): Professor Sachs

  • No textbook

MLP PRACTICUM (Law 2517): Professor Flowers

  • No textbook

MODERN DIVORCE ADVOCACY (Law 2842): Professor Braunstein

PATENT LAW (Law 2921): Professor Richetti

  • Patent Law and Policy, Cases and Materials; Robert Patrick Merges, John Fitzgerald Duffy; 9781531011758; Carolina Academic Press; 8th 2021

PATENT LITGATION (Law 2768): Professor Richetti

  • Patent Litigation and Strategy 978-1-68328-548-9; West Academic Publishing; 5th ed. 2018

PERSP LEGAL ANALYSIS & WRITING (Law 3930): Professors Lefton, Caporale and Louis

  • No textbook

PERSP LEGAL ANALYSIS & WRITING (Law 3930): Professors Lefton, Caporale and Louis

  • No textbook

PERSP LEGAL ANALYSIS & WRITING (Law 3930): Professors Lefton, Caporale and Louis

  • No textbook

PLCY & BUS OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES CRYPTOCURRENCIES (Law 2740): Professor Shipkevich

  • Digital Coins & Cryptocurrencies, Law & Regulation: Cases & Problems; Felix Shipkevich; 978-1-5310-2761-2; Carolina Academic Press;

PRE-TRIAL I: WRITTEN DISCOVERY (Law 2821): Professors Gundlach and Stein

  • No textbook

PRE-TRIAL I: WRITTEN DISCOVERY (Law 2821): Professor Stein

PRE-TRIAL II: DEPOSITIONS PRACT (Law 2829): Professor McElroy

  • No textbook

PRE-TRIAL III DRFT &ARG SJ MTN (Law 2730): Professor Stein

  • No textbook

PRETRIAL SKILLS (Law 3935): Professor Cozzens

  • No textbook

PRIVATE EQUITY (Law 2988): Professor Davis

  • Mastering Private Equity: Transformation via Venture Capital, Minority Investments and Buyouts; Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl, Bowen White; 978-1119327974; Wiley; 1st Edition

PRO BONO PRACTICE SEMINAR (Law 5911): Professor Gundlach

  • No textbook

PROPERTY (Law 1730): Professor Ostrow

  • Property Law; Dukeminier and Krier; 9781454881995; Aspen; 9th

PROPERTY (Law 1730): Professor Sinha

  • Property Law: Practice, Problems, and Perspectives Perspectives;Jerry L. Anderson and Daniel B. Bogart; 978-1454897897; Aspen; 2nd

PROPERTY (Law 1730): Professor Hickey

  • Property; Dukeminier Krier Alexander, Schill and Strahilevitz; 978-1-5438-3849-7; Aspen; 10th ed., 2022

RACE AND THE LAW (Law 3911): Professor Malave

  1. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic; Richard Delgado; 978-1479802760;NY University Press Classics; 3rd ed.
  2. Critical Race Theory: A primer; Khiara Bridges; 978-1683284437; West Academics; 1st ed.
  3. And We are not Saved; Derrick Bell; 978-0465003297; Basic Books;

REAL TIME LAWYERING: GRND JURY (Law 2505): Professors Barron, Hickey, McGuire and Sullivan

  • No textbook

REAL ESTATE FINANCE SEMINAR (Law 3945): Professor Bell

  • Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer Wolters Kluwer;

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY LAW (Law 2528): Professor Colombo

  • Religion and the Constitutional Experiment; John Witte Jr., Joel A. Nichols, and Richard Garnett; 978-0197587621; Oxford; 5th ed., 2022 (the Casebook)

SECURITIES REGULATION (Law 3964): Professor Colesanti

  • Fairness, Inc.: The Origins (and Billion-Dollar Bonuses) of Rule 10b-5 as America's Insider Trading Prohibition; Colesanti; 9781531003746; Carolina Academic Press;

SEX BASED DISCRIMINATION (Law 2942): Professor Damiano

  • Gender and the Law; Katherine T Barlett; 979-8886143461; Aspen; 9th ed.

SPANISH FOR LAWYERS (Law 2984): Professor Wong

  • No textbook

SEL PROBLEMS NY CIVIL PRACTICE (Law 3969): Professor Knobel

  1. New York Practice; Siegel, David; 979-8887860084; West Academics; 6th
  2. CPLR; Looseleaf; 978-1608854875; Blue360 Media; 2023
  3. Civil Litigation in New York; Oscar Chase; 978-1531013462; LexisNexis; 7th
  4. NY Practice 2022 Supplement; Siegel; 9781685613860; West Acad; 8th 22
  5. NY Practice Pocket Part July 2022; Siegel; 978-1731959577; Thomson Reuters; 2023

SPORTS LAW (Law 3975): Professor Bua

  • No textbook

VETERANS LEGAL CLINIC (Law 5810): Professor Greer

  • Essential Lawyering Skils: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis; Krieger; 978-1543808889; Aspen; 6th

VOTING RIGHTS & ELECTION LAW (Law 3986): Professor Solages

  • Election Law : Cases and Materials; Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Richard Hasen, Daniel Tokaji, Nicholas Stephanopoulos; ISBN-10 153102081X, ISBN-13 978-1531020811; Carolina Academic Press; 7th ed.

WILLS,TRUSTS AND ESTATES (Law 4837): Professor Folami

  • Wills, Trusts and Estates; Sitkoff and Dukeminier; 9781543824469; Aspen; 11th

YOUTH ADVOCACY CLINIC (Law 5802): Professor Liebmann

  • 2022 NY State Juvenile Rights Practice Handbook; NY State; 978-1608850112; Blue 360 Media; 2022