The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University (commonly known as Hofstra Law) is a law school located in

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on Long Island, affiliated with Hofstra University. Founded in 1970 and accredited by the ABA in 1971, the school offers a JD, a joint JD/MBA degree, and

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degrees in

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(for foreign law graduates) and

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. It also offers online LL.M and MA degrees in Health Law & Policy, an online LL.M in American Law, and an online M.A. in American Legal Studies. The Law School is on the southern portion of the Hofstra University campus, in Hempstead, New York. The school was renamed to the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University in September 2011.

Academics

Hofstra Law offers Juris Doctor concentrations in eight areas of study: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Law, Corporate Compliance, Criminal Law and Procedure, Family Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, and International Law.

Rankings

In the 2021 '' U.S. News & World Report'' rankings for law schools, Hofstra Law ranked 119th nationally. In 2011, the school was named one of the country's best public interest law schools by preLaw magazine, a national publication aimed at prospective law students. Among the 75 law schools that made the list,

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ranked 11th. Hofstra Law was ranked the No. 54 school in the country in placing partners in U.S. offices of the 100 largest national law firms in a 2011 study by Theodore P. Seto. According to a 2016 study, by

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, Hofstra ranked 35th nationally for employment outcomes and 6th in New York State.

Admission statistics

For the 2019 entering class, 48.33% of applicants were accepted with 18.90% enrolling, the 50th Percentile of enrolled students having a 154 LSAT score and a 3.53 GPA.

Facilities

Hofstra Law is housed in the original building opened in the 1970s upon the school's inception, although it has undergone several extensive renovations since that time. The lower floors of Kushner Hall are home to the law school's two level Barbara and Maurice A. Deane Law Library. The law building also contains both an appellate Moot Courtroom and trial moot courtroom. Access to wireless internet can be found throughout the campus. In the early 1990s, the school added a new building, Joan Axinn Hall, to house its growing clinical programs and the Office of Career Services, and it expanded into neighboring Roosevelt Hall in 2006, with new space for its five student-run journals and other student organizations. In total, the law school operates out of 4 buildings: Koppleman Hall (classrooms, offices, and courtrooms), Kushner Hall (library, atrium, and offices), Joan Axinn Hall (admissions and clinics), and Roosevelt Hall (offices for each journal and the moot court).

Faculty

As of 2019, Hofstra Law has 40 full-time faculty members. The faculty includes (or has included in the past)

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(past member),

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(no longer practicing), Monroe Freedman (deceased), Robert A. Baruch Bush, Aaron Twerski (past member), and Eric Lane (non-attorney).

Employment

According to Hofstra Law's 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 75.95% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. Hofstra's

under-employment score is 10.5%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2017 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time position For the July 2018 New York bar exam, 62% of Hofstra Law graduates who were first-time exam takers passed the bar, vs. an 83% average for graduates of New York ABA-accredited schools.

Journals

Student Edited

*''

Hofstra Law Review The ''Hofstra Law Review'', an entirely student run organization, is the flagship law review of the Hofstra University School of Law. As of 2006 it was ranked 146 out of more than 1,000 law journals in the United States. Its inaugural issue was pu ...

'' (Est. 1973) *''

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'' (Est. 1982) *''Hofstra Journal of International Business and Law'' (Est. 1999)

Peer Reviewed

*''Family Court Review *''ACTEC Law Journal'' of the

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(ACTEC).

Costs

Annual tuition at Hofstra Law for the 2018–2019 academic year is $59,214. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $329,392.

Alumni

Government

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, the New York State Assembly from 1997 to 2010 * Joe Ferriero, the Bergen County Democratic Organization Chairman from 1998 to 2009 *

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, ('87), Nassau County Executive since 2010 * Neil Levin, Executive Director of the

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, killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center *

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Judges

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('74), former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sister of 45th U.S. President

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('73), former judge of the

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since January 2000 *

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, political consultant for the Republican Party, advisor to former President

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(attended but did not graduate) * Bobby Muller ('74), peace advocate *

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('97), sports agent * Joel Segal ('89), sports agent *

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References

External links

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