Professor Norman I. Silber - Scholarly Interests, Education, Professional Training and Legal Practice

Norman I. Silber

Professor of Law

Hofstra University School of Law

Scholarly Interests:

Nonprofit Organizations

Consumer Law

Legal History

Commercial Law

Education, Professional Training and Legal Practice:

Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School, 1989 – present

Board of Directors, Consumers Union (Consumer Reports magazine), 1996 – present

Vice Dean, Hofstra Law School, 1999 – 2000

Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Visiting Research Professor, Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, Fall 1997.

Chair, Subcommittee on Developments in Nonprofit Corporation Law, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, 1995 – 1999.

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, 1987 – 1989: Tax-exempt corporations, commercial litigation.

Law clerk to Judge Leonard I. Garth, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1986 – 1987.

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1986.

Senior Revising Editor, Columbia Law Review.

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1985 – 1986.

Yale Graduate School of History, Ph.D., 1978.

Mellon graduate scholarship; research awards.

(winner of Crown fellowship, Brandeis U.).

Washington University, B.A. in History, 1972.

Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.