Theo Liebmann
		Clinical Professor and Attorney-In-Charge of Hofstra Child Advocacy Clinic Associate Director, Center for Children, Families and the Law Associate Director, Hofstra Law Clinics
		B.A., Yale University J.D., Georgetown University
		Phone:  (516) 463-4736 Fax:  (516) 463-5937 E-mail:  lawtsl@hofstra.edu

Biography

Professor Liebmann has directed the interdisciplinary Hofstra Child Advocacy Clinic since its inception. In his capacity as Attorney-in-Charge, he supervises law students and mental health trainees working together to advocate on behalf of children involved in the child welfare system. Professor Liebmann and his students have represented hundreds of children in cases involving physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, as well as related delinquency, custody and special immigrant juvenile matters. Prior to his current position at Hofstra, Professor Liebmann was a lawyer for children in maltreatment and juvenile delinquency cases at the Manhattan office of the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division. Professor Liebmann serves as Co-Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Training the Lawyer to Represent the Whole Child program, frequently leads workshops on topics such as the role of the law guardian and immigrant youth issues, and co-authors regular columns in the New York Law Journal on children and the law. Professor Liebmann’s has written in the areas of the overlap between child welfare and immigration law, the impact of family law legal standards on the physical and emotional well-being of youth and children, and ethical problems in the representation of children.

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