On April 16, 2012, the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University hosted an awards ceremony for the Hempstead High School Mock Trial Team.
Jonathan Lippman, chief judge of the State of New York and chief judge of the Court of Appeals, will deliver the commencement address at the Hofstra Law graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 20.
Hofstra Law and the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation will host a one-day workshop for lawyers, “Managing Difficult Clients: Effective Strategies for Working with Emotional Clients in Conflict,” on Tuesday, May 22.
The Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation has donated $10,000 to help fund two of the school’s programs that serve at-risk youth in the community. The
Professor Eric Lane has been named interim dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, effective March 1, Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz announced. In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Dean Nora V. Demleitner will remain at Hofstra Law through the end of June, when she will assume the deanship at Washington and Lee University School of Law.
A team of students from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University was named co-champion for Region 2 in the 37th Annual National Trial Competition (NTC) this past weekend.
The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University held its annual In Honor of Justice alumni reception at the offices of Proskauer Rose LLP in Times Square on Monday, January 23, 2012.
Student researchers at the LLT Lab co-author article for peer-reviewed journal. A scholarly article featuring research conducted by the Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology (LLT Lab) at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Nora V. Demleitner, dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, has announced that she has accepted the deanship at Washington and Lee University’s School of Law beginning July 1, 2012. Demleitner will remain at Hofstra Law through June 2012.
A team of students from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University was named Regional Champion at the Region II Rounds of the 62nd Annual National Moot Court Competition on November 16-17.
The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University held its 40th Anniversary Gala to celebrate four decades of impact on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, at Yankee Stadium. The gala honored Randy L. Levine ‘80, president of the New York Yankees and senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Nora V. Demleitner, dean of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, has received a Leadership in Law Award in recognition for her contributions to legal education.
Students and professors at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law have organized the three-day teach-in “Why Is Wall Street Occupied?” to address and discuss the legal causes and consequences of the issues raised in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
More than 130 alumni of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University have been named among the top attorneys in the New York metropolitan area for 2011 by Super Lawyers magazine, an increase from last year’s total of 122.
This fall, Hofstra Law School welcomed a significant number of new international students, including 23 who are enrolled in its Juris Doctor class of 2014. These students, who represent approximately 6 percent of the current 1L class, are from a wide range of countries, including Canada, China, Haiti, Nepal and the Republic of Korea.
This term Hofstra Law School is co-sponsoring a unique course, the principal aim of which is to bridge the gap between the legal and medical fields. The class, aptly titled Law and Medicine, Cooperative Professionalism, is offered jointly by Hofstra University and Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC).
Hofstra University will name its law school the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University to honor a distinguished alumnus with a unique, 30-year commitment to Hofstra that was first forged when he embarked on a law degree after a successful career as a business executive.
Hofstra Law School today announced that it will host “Marriage Equality and the Courts,” a discussion with two of the country’s leading marriage equality advocates, Theodore Boutrous and Richard Socarides ’79, on Monday, September 19, 2011 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Hofstra Law School.
Hofstra Law School has received a $7,500 grant from the Nassau County Bar Association’s WE CARE Fund to support the Getting Beyond the System® seminar at Hofstra Law School . In this program, law students assist local disadvantaged youth by imparting critical decision-making skills that will enable them to become their own best advocates and plan for future success.
This month, Hofstra Law School will begin hosting the weekly hearings of the Nassau County Youth Court. The youth court, which is a program of the Nassau County District Attorney’s office, allows adolescents to adjudicate low-level criminal offenses committed by their peers.
Hofstra Law School announced today that Susan Saab Fortney will join its full-time faculty as the new Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics beginning in the fall 2011 semester. She will succeed Roy D. Simon, Jr., who has served as the Lichtenstein Professor since 2003. Fortney is coming to Hofstra Law from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she has served as interim dean since 2010 and Paul Whitfield Horn University Professor since 2008.
Hofstra Law Professor Joanna L. Grossman has been named a featured columnist for Verdict, a new legal commentary site launched by Justia, a legal media and technology company that makes legal information freely available online.
Seven Hofstra Law students will spend the summer working at public interest organizations as a part of the Equal Justice Works (EJW) Summer Corps, an AmeriCorps-funded program. Summer Corps participants provide critically needed legal assistance to low-income and underserved communities in the United States.
For more than 20 years, Hofstra Law School’s student-run Public Justice Foundation (PJF) has raised money to support law students who devote their time and legal skills to public interest organizations over the summer. This year, PJF raised a record-breaking $48,536, which will enable 44 law students to receive stipends for unpaid summer internships in the public sector they otherwise would be unable to accept because of financial constraints.
Hofstra Law School held its annual Graduates’ Celebration and Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 22, 2011. Administrators, faculty members, friends and families joined Hofstra Law graduates at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University to honor their outstanding achievements as law school students.
Hofstra Law Professor Rose Cuison Villazor has been named one of three winners of Hofstra University’s 27th Annual Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publications.
Hofstra Law School Professor Serge Martinez has been awarded a grant to serve as a Fulbright Scholar to teach during the 2011-2012 academic year at the National Taiwan University College of Law in Taipei, the flagship law school in Taiwanese legal education.
According to a new study issued by the Brennan Center for Justice, New Yorkers are seriously lacking in their knowledge of government, politics and the U.S. Constitution. The report was co-authored by Eric Lane, the Eric J. Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Public Service at Hofstra Law School and senior fellow at the Brennan Center, and Meg Barnette, the former COO of the Brennan Center.
New York state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will deliver the keynote address at Hofstra Law School’s commencement ceremony, to be held on Sunday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex, Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y.
Hofstra Law School and Wright Risk Management today announced they will co-host a conference designed to help school administrators address cyberbullying issues on Friday, April 8, 2011, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Hofstra Law School. Wright Risk Management is the alternative risk program management subsidiary of WRM America, specializing in the unique exposures faced by educational, government and not-for-profit institutions.
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