Contracts Prof Weekly Spotlight: Ronald J. Colombo

Ronald J. Colombo (Hofstra University)

B.S., Cornell University
J.D., New York University School of Law

Professor Colombo has joined Hoftra University Law School, where he will teach Contracts, Securities Regulation,and Business Organizations.

My researchfocuses primarily on corporate and securities law and, more specifically, the applicationof non-economic principles and norms to these fields.  Before joining the Hofstra faculty in 2006, I served in the Complex Global Litigation Group of Morgan Stanley &Co. Incorporated as Vice-President and Counsel. In this position, I supervised investigations,litigations, and regulatory inquiries affecting Morgan Stanley’s investmentbanking franchise. Prior to that, I practiced as a litigation associate at the New York office ofSullivan & Cromwell, where, among other things, I represented corporateand banking clients in civil and criminal investigations conducted by theS.E.C., the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Reserve Bank; in mattersbefore state courts, federal courts, and arbitration panels; and in appeals beforethe Third Circuit, the D.C. Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. From 2000 – 2003, I also served on the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Associationof the Bar of the City of New York.

I graduated, magna cum laude, from N.Y.U. School of Law.  At N.Y.U., I served as a Note& Development Editor of the N.Y.U.Law Review, published a note on the clergy-penitent evidentiary privilege,interned at the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, N.Y.,and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Immediately following graduation, I clerked for JudgeJerry Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Notwithstanding my dedication to lawand teaching, my pride and joy remains my three children:
Isabella (4 yrs); Christina (2 yrs); and Ron Jr. (6 mos.).

And if any time remains after the day is done, I might be found in front of a television or radio watching or listening to a N.Y. Yankees ballgame.