A renowned expert in litigation and advocacy skills, Peter Hoffman joins the Elon law faculty after serving for the past year as Fulbright Senior Scholar at Chinese University in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was director of the Blakeley Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. Hoffman has served as the Neibel Professor of Law and the Newell H. Blakeley Chair in Evidence at Houston and has served as director of clinical legal education since 2005.
Hoffman taught at University of Nebraska College of Law from 1974 to 2001, where he was the Earl Dunlap Distinguished Professor of Law and held two trial advocacy professorships. He has also been a visiting professor at City University of Hong Kong, Washington University – St. Louis, University of San Diego and the University of Hawaii, and spent two years as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau. Hoffman received a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Elon University School of Law has added nine newfull-time faculty members as the school prepares to enroll its thirdclass of students and reach full enrollment. With the new additions,the school will include 22 faculty and deans, 4 distinguishedin-residence faculty and coaches, and 20 administrators and staff. Thefall 2008 enrollment will be approximately 325.