Biography

Following law school, Professor Krieger served as a law clerk to Judge Hubert L. Will, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. He was a staff attorney at the West Side Office of Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago from 1977 to 1979. Professor Krieger was a clinical teacher for 13 years at the University of Chicago Law School and Southern Methodist University School of Law, and has taught at Hofstra since 1992. He teaches clinical courses and Evidence.

Professor Krieger specializes in the areas of housing and community development. Professor Krieger and his students in the Housing Rights and Law Reform Advocacy Clinics have represented numerous tenants and community groups in attempts to improve low-income housing in Nassau County. Recently, Professor Krieger and Clinic students won a major victory in the New York Court of Appeals protecting the rights of tenants to proper notice before eviction. The Clinic now represents Latino tenants in a building in Farmingdale who have filed a housing discrimination case in federal court challenging the plans of the Village and a developer to displace all the occupants and build luxury apartments. This summer, representing a tenants advocacy group, the Clinic won a significant victory in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, invalidating high rent guidelines for approximately 12,000 tenants in Nassau County.

Professor Krieger's scholarly interests are in the areas of litigation strategy and legal education. He is the author, with Professor Neumann, Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis, a text for clinical and other skills courses published by Aspen Law & Business, a leading legal textbook publisher. He recently published an article in the Journal of Legal Education describing an empirical study on development of legal reasoning skills in law students and will be publishing an article this fall describing his empirical study on the effects of clinical education on the development of lawyering skills. He is now conducting a study of the development of expertise for attorneys in practice.

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