Biography

Professor Tracht has been a member of the faculty since 1994, teaching courses in property law, real estate finance, environmental law, and economic analysis of law. He is a member of the editorial board of the Banking Law Journal, a contributing editor to the Real Estate Law Report, and has written extensively in the areas of real estate development and construction financing, workouts, and bankruptcy. His articles have appeared in the Cornell Law Review and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others, and he was a winner of the 1997-98 Grant Gilmore Award for excellence in legal scholarship.

Before coming to Hofstra, Professor Tracht practiced in the real estate and bankruptcy groups at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., and clerked for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

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