Category: Teaching and Legal Education

Barbara S. Barron Teaches Trial Advocacy Teacher Training Course in Macedonia

February 2nd, 2012
  Barbara S. Barron taught a trial advocacy teacher training course for the Department of State and Justice Department in Macedonia on January 23-26, 2012. The teacher training course is part of an integrated, comprehensive effort to introduce American… more »

Susan Saab Fortney Teaches LL.M. Class at the University of La Trobe in Melbourne

January 17th, 2012
  In December 2011 Professor Susan Saab Fortney taught an LL.M. class in the Global Business Law Program at the University of La Trobe in Melbourne.  The class, called the Global Lawyer, focused on issues related to transnational law practice.   more »

Family Law with Skills Course Selected As Model of Innovative Teaching by Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers

October 11th, 2011
Co-taught by Andrew Schepard and J. Herbie DiFonzo, the “Family Law with Skills” course has been selected by Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers (ETL) as a model of exemplary innovative teaching. An in-depth profile of the course, including video interviews wit… more »

Amy R. Stein Co-Authors ABA Committee’s Best Practices Report on the Use of Adjunct Faculty

October 7th, 2011
Amy R. Stein, professor of legal writing and assistant dean for adjunct instruction, serves on the American Bar Association’s Adjunct Faculty Committee and co-authored their most recent report the Best Practices Report on the Use of Adjunct Faculty. The… more »

Susah H. Joffe Presents at 2011 Western Regional Legal Writing Conference

September 2nd, 2011
Susan H. Joffe presented at the 2011 Western Regional Legal Writing Conference at the University of San Francisco Law School on August 26-27.  The conference, “How to Hit the Ground Writing: Meeting the Expectations of the Changing Legal Market,” explore… more »

Case Brought By Leon Friedman Discussed in New York Law Journal

August 18th, 2011
Supreme Court Rejects Public Employee Petition Clause Retailiation ClaimNew York Law JournalBy: Martin A. SchwartzAugust 17, 2011 Excerpt: Guarnieri won in the district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed. Third Circuit… more »

Daniel Greenwood Discusses the Idolatry of Corporations and Impersonal Privacy

August 17th, 2011
FCC v. ATT: The Idolatry of Corporations and Impersonal PrivacyHarvard Law and Policy ReviewBy: Daniel JH Greenwood August 14, 2011 Excerpt: “You shall not make molten gods for yourselves.” Ex. 34:17 This Term, in Federal Communications Commission… more »

Monroe Freedman Comments on Prosser Recount Case

August 16th, 2011
Prosser's Recount Got Ample Funding more »

Eric M. Freedman Comments on a Supreme Question Place of Birth: Jerusalem or Israel?

August 11th, 2011
  Overwhelming majorities in Congress have reaffirmed its status as the Israeli capital, but for Americans born in Jerusalem, the line on the passport remains without a country, printed simply as Jerusalem. The omission of Israel’s name is a question n… more »

Susan Saab Fortney and Courtney L. Selby Join Hofstra Law School

August 3rd, 2011
Susan Saab Fortney joins the Hofstra Law faculty and will be named the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and head of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics. She succeeds Roy D. Simon, Jr., who has served as the Lichtenstein… more »