Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman

University of Houston Law Center

A specialist on civil procedure in the federal and state courts, Professor Hoffman's scholarly writing focuses on questions of jurisdiction as they arise within particular sovereignties and on interjurisdictional conflicts. He is a frequent faculty lecturer with programs organized by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association. n 2006, Professor Hoffman was named to the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. He also serves as editor of The Advocate, the quarterly journal of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas, and is a member ex officio of the Litigation Council for the Litigation Section. In 2004, Professor Hoffman received the University of Houston Enron Teaching Excellence Award. The award, voted on by a committee of faculty across the UH System, is the highest annual teaching honor accorded university-wide. In his first year of teaching in 1999, as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, he won the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching (selected by committee of student representatives). In 2002, Professor Hoffman was designated a Fulbright Senior Specialist Candidate on the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (designation through 2007). Professor Hoffman received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University (History) and his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law.