FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ST. JOHN'S MASTER'S LAW DEGREE IN BANKRUPTCY IS FIRST IN NATION
Jamaica, N.Y. (November 23, 1998)--St. John's University School of Law is launching the first LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree in Bankruptcy in the country, school officials announced today. The program, which will be offered beginning fall 1999, has already won approval from the University's Board of Trustees and the New York State Department of Education. American Bar Association (ABA) approval is pending.
The LL.M. is designed to meet a special need in the field of bankruptcy law -- to produce attorneys who are able to handle bankruptcy cases involving the multi-disciplinary issues associated with most bankruptcy practice. Courses will cover such areas as Bankruptcy Accounting, Bankruptcy Taxation, Domestic Relations in Bankruptcy, Pension Benefits in Bankruptcy and Multi-National Case Management.
In recent years, St. John's University School of Law has developed a national reputation in the field of bankruptcy law. Students publish the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and co-sponsor, with the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition. Judge Duberstein is Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York, and a 1941 graduate of St. John's University School of Law.
The Director of the program is Professor Robert M. Zinman, who currently serves as Chairman of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), the largest organization of insolvency professionals in the world.
Full and part-time students will be required to complete 30 credits. In addition, all students must pass the certification examination in Consumer or Business Bankruptcy given by the American Board of Certification (an organization sponsored by the ABI and the Commercial Law League of America).
For more information, please contact Prof. Robert Zinman at 718/990-6646 or [email protected].
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