ACCOMPLISHED FACULTY
Our faculty consists of nationally and internationally recognized scholars. Faculty members have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justices, chaired major American Bar Association and law reform committees, received awards for scholarship and leadership in legal education as well as community leadership, and been politically active in their communities. Their publications reflect a wide range of interests and expertise, ongoing participation in important scholarly debates of the day, and significant contributions to the study and teaching of law.
J. SCOTT COLESANTI
Professor of Legal Writing
Professor Colesanti served as trial counsel for the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement for 10 years and subsequently served within the NYSE Office of the General Counsel and as a securities industry arbitrator for over a decade. He has handled appeals before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Social Security Administration, the EEOC, and the New York State Division of Human Rights. He regularly lectures on the Financial Crisis
RONALD COLOMBO
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Distance Education
A former vice president and counsel in Morgan Stanley’s Complex Global Litigation Group, Professor Colombo focuses his teaching and research on securities fraud, corporate law, corporate rights and responsibilities, and financial regulation. His book The First Amendment and the Business Corporation examines tough constitutional issues, such as corporate free speech rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United decision, as well as corporate rights to free exercise, which the Court considered in Hobby Lobby.
HERBIE J. DIFONZO
Professor of Law
Professor DiFonzo has been a federal prosecutor and a litigator in the areas of family law, criminal defense, negligence and professional malpractice. He teaches
courses in family law, civil procedure, and alternatives to litigation, and writes primarily on issues in family law and criminal justice. He has served as a coreporter for the Shared Parenting Project, sponsored by the Association of Families and Conciliation Courts, and the Family Law Education Reform (FLER) Project, a national effort to improve family law teaching.
JANET L. DOLGIN
Jack and Freda Dicker
Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law; Director of the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy; Co-Director of the Hofstra University Bioethics Center
Professor Dolgin is an expert in health law and bioethics. She co-organized the Hofstra University Bioethics Center’s inaugural conference on the ethical use of Internet-cloud-based apps and social media in health care.
AKILAH N. FOLAMI
Professor of Law
Professor Folami’s research includes both the intersection of communications law and media policy and the regulation of speech and cultural expression, particularly hip-hop culture, on broadcast radio.
IRINA D. MANTA
Professor of Law
Professor Manta teaches intellectual property and property law subjects, and her research examines the intersection between
intellectual property law and social sciences, with a focus on psychology. She received the University’s Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication for 20132014 for her article “Hedonic Trademarks.”
RICHARD K. NEUMANN, JR.
Professor of Law
Professor Neumann, a leading authority on legal education and the teaching of legal writing, has been recognized by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute for his “outstanding contribution and leadership to the field of legal writing.”
BARBARA STARK
Professor of Law
Professor Stark teaches courses in international family law, international law, and transnational law. She has served on the executive council of the American Society of International Law and the executive committees of the AALS Sections on International Law and on Family and Juvenile Law, and has chaired the Family Law Committee of the International Law Association.
VERN WALKER
Professor of Law and Director of the Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology
Professor Walker has been a consultant to private and governmental institutions in both
the U.S. and Europe. As director of Hofstra Law’s Law, Logic and Technology Research Laboratory, he and his team of researchers — in collaboration with peers at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa — are using advanced software and Internet-based technologies to explore logical analysis of the underlying patterns of reasoning in legal decisions.
LAURIS WREN
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Wren created the Asylum Clinic, which represents people who have fled their countries because of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. She has been honored by the Central American Refugee Center for her “deep commitment and dedicated work on behalf of immigrants and refugees.”
ELLEN YAROSHEFSKY
Howard Lichtenstein
Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics
Professor Yaroshefsky is a nationally recognized scholar in ethics, criminal law and civil rights. She represents lawyers and law firms in criminal, civil and disciplinary matters and serves as an expert witness on legal ethics issues. She has received several awards for her litigation work.
FLEXIBLE CUTTING-EDGE
CURRICULUM
With more than 200 upper-level course offerings, you can explore practically any area of law, and you can craft an individualized course of study. You will also benefit from being a fully integrated member of the Law School student body, taking classes with American and international students who are pursuing a U.S. Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.
Take Specialized Courses
Hofstra Law offers more than 200 courses in a wide variety of practice areas giving you the opportunity to delve deeper into your areas of interest. Classes range in size from large lectures to small discussion-based seminars, giving you a chance to select classes that also match your learning style. Additionally, you will take classes and exchange ideas alongside our J.D. candidates, creating a dynamic classroom atmosphere.
Develop Expertise
If you have a passion to dig deeper into a particular area of law or legal issue, you may be eligible to participate in an independent study alongside one of our renowned faculty members. You will work one-on-one with the faculty member to develop an original work of publishable quality that will showcase your developed expertise in a legal subject.
Prepare for the Bar Exam
“I appreciated that there were LL.M. students from different countries, which gave me greater perspective and the opportunity to learn about other legal systems. Taking classes with so many American J.D. students also gave me the chance to learn more about U.S. culture.”
— Hamid Durani, LL.M. ’12, Afghanistan
If completing an LL.M. is a necessary step toward reaching your goal of becoming a licensed attorney, you also have the opportunity to take courses focused on the subjects tested on the bar examination. In addition to helping you prepare for the bar exam, many of these courses provide a strong foundation of knowledge for the practice of law in the United States.
ADVOCACY/LITIGATION/ ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Administrative Law
ADR in the Information Society
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
Advanced Civil Litigation
Advanced Competition Skills
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Mediation Seminar
Advanced Trial Advocacy — Civil Alternatives to Litigation
Applied Evidence: Evidentiary Oral Argument in Trial Courts
Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing
Asylum Clinic
Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Clinical Prosecution Practicum
Collaborative Family Law Seminar
Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law
Complex Insurance Litigation
Computer Technology in Legal Practice
Conflict of Laws
Criminal Justice Clinic
Disability Law
Domestic Commercial Arbitration
Domestic Violence Seminar (with Skills)
Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions
E-Discovery Practice
Environmental Dispute Resolution
Ethics in Criminal Advocacy Evidence
Externship, Matrimonial Law
Externship Program, Civil Law
Externship Program, Criminal Law
Externship Program, Judicial Law
Family Law in New York Federal Courts
Hofstra Law in D.C. Externship Program
Immigration Clinical Practicum
Insurance Litigation and Corporate Practice
Externship
International Commercial Arbitration
Introduction to Administrative Law
Introduction to Commercial Dispute Resolution
The Jury
Juvenile Justice Clinical Practicum
Law and the Brain
Law Reform Advocacy Clinic
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research II
Legal Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation
Litigation and Drafting Skills
Logic Skills for Legal Reasoning
Matrimonial Skills
Mediation Externship
Mediation Principles and Practice
Modern Divorce Advocacy
Negotiation Seminar: Theory, Research and Practice
Negotiation Skills
Patent Litigation
Patent Prosecution Externship
Practical LGBT Lawyering
Practice-Ready Research Skills
Pretrial Skills
Pre-Trial I: Written Discovery
Pre-Trial II: Depositions Practice
Pre-Trial III: Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion
Real Time Lawyering Skills: The Grand Jury
Real Time Lawyering: The Temporary Restraining Order
Remedies
Scientific Evidence
Securities Arbitration
Selected Problems in New York Civil Practice
Trial Techniques
Youth Advocacy Clinic
COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE LAW
Accounting and Finance for Lawyers
Admiralty Law
Advanced Bankruptcy
Antitrust
Automotive Law Seminar
Banking Law
Bankruptcy
Business and Law of Marijuana
Business Drafting Seminar
Business Organizations
Business Transactions in Healthcare
Combatting Corruption
Commercial Transactions Survey
Community and Economic
Development Clinic
Consumer Transactions
Contracts I
Contracts II
Controversies in Corporate Law
Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Corporate Finance
Corporate Government Seminar
Derivatives Law
Domestic Commercial Arbitration
Drafting and Negotiating
Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions
Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinical Practicum
ERISA and Employee Benefit Plans
Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
Export Laws and Export Controls
Global Compliance in the Digital Age
Insurance Litigation and Corporate Practice Externship
International Business Transactions
International Commercial Arbitration
International Sales Law
International Sales Law Skills Lab
International Transaction Skills
Introduction to Asset Management Legal and Compliance
Introduction to Commercial Dispute Resolution
Introduction to the Economic Law of the European Union for Non-EU Lawyers
Law and Role of In-House Counsel
Mergers and Acquisitions
Nonprofit Corporations
Privacy in the Digital Age
Private Equity: Fund Formation and Transactional Issues
Real Time Lawyering: Negotiating the Complex Deal
Regulation of Securities Broker/Dealers
Secured Transactions
Securities Arbitration
Securities Regulation
Sustainability and Business Law
Telecommunications Law and Policy
Transactional Lawyering: Translating Deals into Contracts
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Administrative Law
Antidiscrimination Law
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Issues in Health Law
Constitutional Law I
Constitutional Law II
Current Problems in Constitutional Law
Death Penalty
Federal Courts
First Amendment: Speech, Association and the Religion Clauses
Foreign Affairs and the Constitution
Immigration Law
Introduction to Administrative Law
Introduction to the American Legal System
Legal Issues in Public Education
Mass Media and the First Amendment
National Security and the Law
Privacy in the Digital Age
Religion and the Constitution
Topics in Federalism
Voting Rights and Election Law
CRIMINAL LAW
Advanced Trial Advocacy — Criminal
Clinical Prosecution Practicum
Combatting Corruption
Criminal Justice Clinic
Criminal Law
Criminal Law in the Workplace
Criminal Procedure I: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments
Criminal Procedure II: Adjudication
Death Penalty
Domestic Violence Seminar (with Skills)
Ethics in Criminal Advocacy
Expert Witness — Homicide
Externship Program, Criminal Law
Immigration Enforcement at the Border
Immigration Law
Juvenile Justice Clinical Practicum
Law and Role of In-House Counsel Law and the Brain
Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System
Nassau County District
Attorney Youth Court Externship
Organized Crime and the Response of Government
Prosecutor’s Role: Prosecuting a Criminal Case
Real Time Lawyering Skills: The Grand Jury
ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
Administrative Law
Animal Law
Disaster Recovery Clinic
Energy Law and Policy
Energy, the Environment and the Global Economy
Environmental Dispute Resolution
Environmental Law
Environmental Law in Commercial and Real Estate Transactions
Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
Historic Preservation and the Environmental Impact Review Process
International Environmental Law
Introduction to Administrative Law
Land Use Regulation
Property
Sustainability and Business Law
ESTATE PLANNING
Elder Law
Estate Planning
Federal Estate and Gift Tax
Wills, Trusts and Estates
FAMILY LAW
Advanced Topics in Family Law
Child Abuse and Neglect
Children and the Law: Legal Relationships among Children, Families and the State
Collaborative Family Law Seminar
Comparative Family Law
Domestic Violence Seminar (with Skills)
Externship, Matrimonial Law
Family Law
Family Law (With Skills Component)
Family Law in New York
Family Law LL.M.: Thesis I & II
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Family Law and Policy
International Family Law
Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy
Juvenile Justice Clinical Practicum
Juvenile Justice Seminar
Legal Decision Making for Children and Incompetent Adults
Matrimonial Skills
Mediation Externship
Modern Divorce Advocacy
Nassau County District
Attorney Youth Court Externship
Sexuality and the Law
Youth Advocacy Clinic
GOVERNMENTAL LAW AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
Administrative Law
Admiralty Law Antitrust
Asylum Clinic
Business and Law of Marijuana
Environmental Law
Federal Tax Policy Seminar
Hofstra Law in D.C. Externship Program
Higher Education Law Seminar
Immigration Enforcement at the Border
Immigration Clinical Practicum
Immigration Law
Introduction to Administrative Law
Land Use Regulation
Legal Issues in Public Education
Legislative Process
Regulation of Securities Broker/Dealers
Researching Administrative Law
Securities Regulation
Seminar on Law and Policymaking in Washington, D.C.
Special Education Law
State and Local Government Law
Telecommunications Law and Policy
Voting Rights and Election Law
HEALTH LAW
Bioethics and the Law
Biotechnology: Law, Business, and Regulation
Business and Law of Marijuana
Business Transactions in Healthcare
Clinical Bioethics I & II
Comparative Health Care
Liability: Compensation for Medical Accidents
Constitutional Issues in Health Law
Elder Law
Health Law
Law and Medicine: Cooperative Professionalism
Law and Psychiatry
Law of Medical Product Discovery, Development and Commercialization
Law’s Response to Reproductive Technology
Legal Decision Making for Children and Incompetent Adults
Managed Care and the Evolution of the DoctorPatient Relationship
Medical Product
Development and Licensing Agreement
Drafting Seminar
Medicare and Medicaid Law
Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
Special Education Law
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Antitrust
Comparative Cyberlaw
Computer Technology in Legal Practice
Copyright Entertainment Law
Global Compliance in the Digital Age
Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property
Clinical Practicum
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Intellectual Property Survey
Law and Role of In-House Counsel
Law in Cyberspace
Medical Product
Development and Licensing Agreement
Drafting Seminar
Patent Law
Patent Litigation
Patent Practice
Patent Prosecution Externship
“What’s great about the Hofstra Law LL.M. program is the sheer diversity of jurisdictions represented by our students — the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. They bring a wealth of experience that enriches the classroom for both professors and students.” — Professor Julian Ku
Privacy in the Digital Age
Sports Law
Trademarks
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Admiralty Law
Combatting Corruption
Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law
Energy, the Environment, and the Global Economy
Foreign Affairs and the Constitution
Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
Global Compliance in the Digital Age
Immigration Clinical Practicum
Immigration Law
International Business Transactions
International Commercial Arbitration
International Environmental Law
International Family Law
International Human Rights Law Seminar
International Institutions
International Law
International Sales Law
International Sales Law
Skills Lab
International Transaction
Skills
Law of Humanity and Law of Nations
Law of International Trade
Policing Youth: CrossNational Comparisons
Transnational Law
Use of Force in International Law: From Peacekeeping to Terrorism
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW
Advanced Labor Law
Collective Bargaining Criminal Law in the Workplace
Disability Law
Employment Discrimination
Employment Law
ERISA and Employee
Benefit Plans
Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
Labor Law
Organized Crime and the Response of Government
Sex-Based Discrimination
Sports Law
LEGAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Higher Education Law Seminar
Jurisprudence
Law and Literature
Law and the Brain
Law and the Popular Culture
Lawyers and Social Change
Legal History
Practical LGBT Lawyering
Sexuality and the Law
Spanish for Lawyers
LEGAL WRITING AND RESEARCH
Advanced Competition Skills
Advanced Legal Research
Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing
Business Drafting Seminar
Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research II
Legal Methods
Litigation and Drafting Skills
Moot Court Competition Seminar
Perspectives on Legal Analysis and Writing
Practice-Ready Research Skills
Pre-Trial I: Written Discovery
Pre-Trial III: Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion
Researching
Administrative Law
Transactional Lawyering: Translating Deals into Contracts
U.S. Legal Research and Writing for International Students
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS
Clinical Bioethics I & II
Computer Technology in Legal Practice
Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Ethical Problems in Federal Tax Practice
Ethics in Criminal Advocacy
Introduction to Asset Management Legal and Compliance
Jurisprudence
Law and Role of In-House Counsel
Law Practice Management
Lawyer Malpractice
Lawyers and Social Change
Lawyers’ Ethics
Lawyers’ Ethics Seminar
Legal Ethics and Malpractice
The Nuts and Bolts of Lawyering
Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
Special Problems in the Law of Lawyering
Using Technology to Deliver Legal Services
REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY LAW
Environmental Law in Commercial and Real Estate Transactions
Historic Preservation and the Environmental Impact Review Process
Land Use Regulation
Property
Real Estate Negotiation Techniques
Real Estate Transactions
TAXATION
Accounting and Finance for Lawyers
Ethical Problems in Federal Tax Practice
Federal Income Taxation of Corporations
Federal Income Taxation of Individuals
Federal Tax Clinical Practicum
Federal Tax Policy Seminar
Federal Tax Procedure
TORTS
Advanced Tort Practice & Problems
Comparative Health Care Liability: Compensation for Medical Accidents
Complex Insurance Litigation
Insurance Litigation and Corporate Practice
Externship
Lawyer Malpractice
Legal Ethics and Malpractice
Medical Malpractice
Products Liability
Remedies
Torts
