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Hofstra Law School is renowned for its leading international law faculty and curriculum. Hofstra offers an LL.M. in American Legal Studies Program which is open to foreign law graduates seeking to learn American law, either in preparation for the New York Bar Examinations, or to add an American law training dimension to their practice in their home countries.
The world-class faculty includes Hofstra Law Dean and Professor of Law Nora V. Demleitner who received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her B.A. from Bates College, and an LL.M. with distinction in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.
Recently, Dean Demleitner contributed a chapter "U.S. Felon Disenfranchisement: Parting Ways with Western Europe" to the book "Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective," edited by Alec Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus (Cambridge University Press).
Professor Demleitner teaches and has written widely in the areas of criminal, comparative and immigration law. Her special expertise is in sentencing and collateral sentencing consequences. She participated in the 2009 J. Reuben Clark Law Society's annual conference at Harvard Law School, where she spoke on a panel about the impact of sentencing guidelines on civil rights.
Professor Demleitner is a managing editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and serves on the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. She is the lead author of "Sentencing Law and Policy," a major casebook on sentencing law, published by Aspen Law & Business. Her articles have appeared in the Stanford, Michigan, and Minnesota law reviews, among others.
Hofstra Law Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development Julian Ku, B.A.,
J.D. Yale, recently published "Medellin's Clear Statement Rule: A Solution for International Delegations," 77 Fordham Law Review 609.
Professor Ku also published "Gubernatorial Foreign Policy" in the Yale Law Journal (2006); co-founded the leading international law blog Opiniojuris.org; was cited in the 2006 U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit decision Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA. and co-authored a book on globalization and its effect on the U.S. Constitution, with UC Berkeley Prof. John Yoo.
Professor Ku teaches international, constitutional and corporate law. His main research interest is the intersection of international and domestic law.
Hofstra Law Professor Barbara Stark received a B.A. from Cornell, a J.D. from NYU and an LL.M. from Columbia. She has published more than 50 chapters and articles in the California and UCLA law reviews and the Yale, Stanford, Virginia, Vanderbilt and Michigan journals of international law, among others.
Professor Stark was the Senior Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights, for which she also contributed two entries, "International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" and "Women's Rights."
Professor Stark's chapter "Reproductive Rights and the Reproduction of Gender" was published in "Gender Equality: Dimensions of Equal Citizenship" (Linda McClain & Joanna Grossman eds. 2009) and her chapter "Rhetoric, Religion and Human Rights: Save the Children!" was published in "What is Right for Children?" (Martha Fineman & Karen Worthington eds. 2009).
In addition, Professor Stark published the book "International Family Law: An Introduction and Global Issues in Family Law" (with Ann Estin) and co-authored the second edition of the textbook "Family Law in the World Community."
Professor Stark has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and she currently serves on the executive committee of the AALS Sections of International Law and Family Law. She is a former Chair of the Family Law Section and she currently chairs the International Family Law Committee of the International Law Association.
Hofstra is one of the only law schools in the country to require all first year law students to take a course in Transnational Law. This unique course provides a foundation on which students can build their understanding of the relationships between U.S. law and international business, legal, social and political issues. It also provides the introduction that allows upper class students to select from numerous advanced courses in international and comparative law, including European Union Law, International Human Rights, International Business Transactions, International Commercial Arbitration and International Institutions.
The School also offers rich opportunities for students to acquire international and transnational law skills training through offerings such as our Political Asylum Law Clinic and our International Moot Arbitration Team, which competes each year in Vienna, Austria.
Hofstra is home to the top publication The Journal of International Business and Law, a joint scholarly publication of the Law School and the Hofstra University Frank G. Zarb School of Business, which explores the interaction of business and law in the global marketplace from both legal and business perspectives.
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