Published on March 2, 2016 | by LawNews
The Hofstra Law team of Alexis Fallon 1L, Reid Harris 2L, Dylan Nesturrick 1L and Mishal Pahrand 2L was a finalist in the eighth annual Capitol City Challenge, held from Feb. 25-28, 2016, at the new Tenley … Read More →
Published on March 2, 2016 | by LawNews
The Hofstra Law team of third-year students Thomas Haley, Michael Senders and Leron Solomon was a semifinalist in the New England Regional Meet of the seventh annual Transactional LawMeet Competition. The Hofstra Law team was also … Read More →
Published on February 25, 2016 | by LawNews
Professor J. Scott Colesanti and Madeline Rasmussen 2L, his legal writing teaching assistant, on Feb. 23, 2016, posted the article “Why NFL Players Might Want the NFL to Win Its Appeal of Brady v. NFL” to … Read More →
Published on February 9, 2016 | by LawNews
Lawyers and Social Change, a course examining how the law can be instrumental for social change, is being offered for the first time during the spring 2016 semester. Each week, a different guest lecturer — a … Read More →
Published on February 8, 2016 | by LawNews
During the weekend of Jan. 30-31, 2016, Scholarly Commons at Hofstra Law reached a new milestone: 400,000 full-text downloads. Scholarly Commons is the institutional repository of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law. A service of … Read More →
Published on February 3, 2016 | by LawNews
On Feb. 2, 2016, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced the appointment of the Honorable A. Gail Prudenti as chair of the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children. Judge Prudenti succeeds the late … Read More →
Published on February 1, 2016 | by LawNews
A trial team of Hofstra Law students Helene Weiss 3L, Lauren Reilly 3L and Sean Brucker 2L were co-champions of the New York Regional Round of the 2016 National Trial Competition. The two winning teams advance to … Read More →
Published on January 28, 2016 | by LawNews
Vernadette Horne, director of career and professional development and diversity initiatives, is one a several experts cited in “Law Schools Carve a Niche for First-Generation Students,” a Jan. 26, 2016, article in the Education Rankings & … Read More →
Published on January 26, 2016 | by LawNews
Judge A. Gail Prudenti, executive director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law and special advisor to Dean Eric Lane, was interviewed by Long Island Business News about her first months at Hofstra Law. … Read More →
Published on January 11, 2016 | by LawNews
More than 150 first-year Hofstra Law students participated in Hofstra Law’s sixth annual Professional Development Boot Camp, presented on Jan. 7, 2016, by the Office of Career Services (OCS). Instructors from Exec|Comm, a consulting firm that … Read More →