Biography

Before coming to Hofstra Law School, Mr. Fruehwald taught legal writing, appellate advocacy, legislation, advanced civil procedure, jurisprudence, and legal ethics at the law schools of the University of Alabama and Roger Williams University. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Louisville School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Mr. Fruehwald also has an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, for five years, concentrating on commercial litigation and bankruptcy.

Mr. Fruehwald is active in national legal writing organizations, having served on committees of the Legal Writing Institute, Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. He has published several articles in law reviews on choice of law, jurisdiction, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, bankruptcy, and copyright. He has also given presentations on bankruptcy and legal writing. Greenwood Press published his book, Choice of Law for American Courts: A Multilateralist Method, in 2001. In 2002, he received Hofstra University's Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarship.

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