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Victor D. López is currently an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Hofstra University's Frank G. Zarb School of Business. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from St. John's University School of Law and is a member of the New York State Bar. His professional affiliations include membership in the New York State Bar Association, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (NEALSB), and he serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. He is currently serving as president of the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2011-2012) and has served as the organization's vice-president (2009-2010) and program chair of the 2011 NEALSB Academic Conference.
Professor López published several textbooks in the areas of business law and the legal environment of business that have been used in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. since 1993. His past publishers include Irwin/Mirror Press and Prentice Hall, and in 2010-2011 he published two revised and expanded business law/legal environment textbooks with his new publisher, Textbooks Media, that are available in inexpensive print and electronic versions. He has presented articles at conferences and published scholarly articles in refereed journals over the past five years in a range of subjects that include immigration law, bankruptcy law, unauthorized practice of law, state and federal efforts to regulate the high cost of college textbooks, and ethics.
Since 1990, he has served as a Professor of Business for 12 years at SUNY Delhi and more recently as the dean of the business division at Broome Community College for four years prior to joining the Hofstra University faculty. He has also served as a professor and dean at other higher education institutions since 1987.
His summer 2011 book publications are available now through Amazon.com for the Kindle and will be available in print by the end of July. These include a book of poems (Of Pain and Ecstasy), a science fiction/speculative fiction short story collection (Book of Dreams) and a reference book on intellectual property (Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets).
