Biography

At Hofstra, Professor Neumann has taught Contracts; Transactional Lawyering; International Business Transactions; Civil Procedure; Legal Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation; Pretrial Litigation; Legal Writing; Federal Courts; Trial Techniques; and clinical courses.

Professor Neumann is the author of a textbook, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing and the co-author of two others: Essential Lawyering Skills (with Professor Krieger) and Legal Writing (Professor Sheila Simon of Southern Illinois University). He is also a co-author of the first edition of the ABA Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs. His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Education, the Clinical Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, among others.

He is an editorial advisor to Aspen Publishers, one of the largest publishers of law school textbooks. He has served on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as well as a number of ABA site inspection teams. He has been chair of American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research; a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute, and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He is a frequent speaker at legal education conferences.

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