Biography

Professor Ostrow teaches courses in Property, State and Local Government Law and Real Estate Law. Her research focuses on issues of state and local government, with an emphasis on local land use regulation. Before joining the Hofstra faculty in January, 2007, Professor Ostrow worked as a real estate associate in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s corporate department. Her practice included the representation of real estate investment funds, lenders, borrowers, landlords and tenants in sophisticated commercial real estate transactions.

Professor Ostrow received her JD from Columbia Law School in 2003. While at Columbia, Professor Ostrow was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She served as a Notes Editor on the Columbia Law Review and published her Note, entitled Dual Resident Voting: Traditional Disenfranchisement and Prospects for Change, in the Columbia Law Review. In 1999, Professor Ostrow graduated, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in political science and religion.

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