Geoffrey Hoffman, Law Faculty

Geoffrey Hoffman is a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M.), Tulane Law School (J.D.) and Columbia University (A.B.). At Harvard, he attended courses in International Law, Comparative Law, Law and Religion, Environmental Law and Legal Theory, among other areas. His LL.M. paper on international law and the concept of bias was accepted for publication and will appear in the Canadian law journal, the Dalhousie Law Review, as well as in the Nova Law Review in the spring of 2005.  Mr. Hoffman was a visiting assistant professor and has taught Introduction to Advocacy, Legal Writing, Law and Literature, as well as Civil Procedure at the University of Illinois College of Law.  He has also held the Forrester Fellowship of Legal Writing at Tulane Law School. In addition to practice experience in immigration law, employment law, personal injury, and class action litigation, Mr. Hoffman was a federal judicial clerk for the Honorable Paul V. Gadola, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan during the term 1998-2000.  His practice currently includes asylum cases and other immigration matters, appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, federal court appeals and habeas cases in federal district court.  While in Champaign-Urbana Illinois, Mr Hoffman was associated with the firm Phebus & Winkelmann (now Phebus & Koester) for two years; he is currently of counsel with this firm.

Mr. Hoffman is admitted in the following jurisdictions: State of Florida; State of Michigan; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He was formerly a Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Law.