Biography

J. Scott Colesanti has been an attorney for 20 years, having worked as Trial Counsel for the New York Stock Exchange and within its Office of the General Counsel. Professor Colesanti has handled appeals before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, and the Social Security Administration. He is a member of the Bars of New York, Washington, D.C., and Missouri, and has served an appointment to the Corporate Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Professor Colesanti previously taught at Saint Louis University and has been an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority since 2001. He has taught at Hofstra since 2002 and, in the Spring of 2006, was selected “Professor of the Year” by the Hofstra Law Review. Professor Colesanti has been published on over a dozen occasions, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Securities Law, Regulation, and Compliance, and is a frequent contributor of expert commentary to LexisNexis and The New York Law Journal.

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