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About Harold I. Abramson

Professor Abramson is a full-time faculty member at Touro Law Center in New York where he served for nine years as vice dean responsible for academic programs, faculty development, and international programs during the formative years of the law school. He also served twice as acting dean. He was one of the first two faculty members inducted in the Law Center’s Builders Society
He teaches or has taught courses on administrative law, anti-trust law, business organizations, contracts, dispute resolution methods including negotiations, mediation representation and international mediation, government regulation of business, remedies, domestic and international sales, and international business and trade. He also teaches online.
Professor Abramson has taught at other educational institutions. He has been teaching dispute resolution courses at Cardozo Law School since 2000. He visited as a full-time professor at Cardozo Law School (NYC), UNLV Law School (Las Vegas), and the US Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). At UNLV, he is one of two senior ADR Scholars. At the AF Academy, he helped build its negotiations program including designing and teaching its first advanced negotiation course for the military context and formulating a training program for negotiation teachers.
He publishes extensively in the areas of negotiations, mediation, intercultural mediation, and mediation representation.
At Touro, Professor Abramson established the law school’s first summer abroad program at Russia’s premier university, Moscow State University. As an ABA Rule of Law (CEELI) Specialist in Russia in the 1990s, he worked on several law reform projects when Russia was trying to build a democracy. After leaving his vice dean position, he stayed involved in educational leadership roles by first serving for three years on the Committee for Professional Development (CLE for law professors) of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He now serves as a member of the twenty person AALS Resource Corps that facilitates retreats at U.S. law schools.
Prior to joining the Touro faculty, he worked in both private practice and state government for seven years. He first litigated contract disputes in a civil legal services office and then helped formulate business regulatory policies and litigated complex regulatory cases for a New York State agency.

Positions

Present Professor of Law, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
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Courses

  • International Dispute Resolution
  • Remedies
  • International Business & Trade
  • Mediation Representation


Contact Information

Touro Law
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
225 Eastview Drive
Central Islip, NY, 11722
Email: habramson@tourolaw.edu
Phone: Office: 631-761-7110

Room: 417C


Books (5)

Book Chapters (4)

Articles (20)