Just Published: A Primer on Immigration Law and Compliance

Just published today by Textbook Media Press: A Primer on Immigration Law and Compliance. This is a short textbook (four chapters) intended as both a companion for all business law and legal environment textbooks (mine included) or as a stand-alone textbook for short credit and non-credit courses and training programs. It is also a useful reference work for anyone interested in a brief, detailed introduction to non-immigrant and immigrant visas, asylum and refugee status and compliance with I-9 employment authorization. An instructor's manual and test bank is available to adopters. Best of all is the price: $5.95 - $12.95 for ebook and paperback versions. Over the 18 months I intend to build on the introductory tome to make an expanded edition (about 15 chapters) suitable for a three-credit undergraduate or graduate course in BBA, MS and MBA programs. My Business Law: An Introduction 3/e and will be out in the first quarter of 2019 which along with Business Law and the Legal Environment of Business 3/e round out my current law-related textbooks. If this book finds a market, a similar short companion textbook on intellectual property will likely follow.

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New textbook coming in January 2020: Business Law 3/e

The final proofs for my newest textbook, Business Law 3/e, were approved by me this week. I just received a PDF copy of the front cover (subject to change before publication). This is the third edition of my very first textbook. The first edition was originally published by Irwin/Mirror Press and later by McGraw-Hill when they acquired Irwin and its subsidiaries. As such, it is special to me. This major revision and update took about a year to complete and includes a new chapter on immigration law. As is true of all of my textbooks, it is very different from the competition in tone, style and pedagogy and reflects my student-centered style as a lecturer. That is also reflected in its pricing which is a small fraction of that of its competitors. This book rounds out my current offerings with Textbook Media Press that also include Business Law and the Legal Environment of Business 3/e that provides more comprehensive coverage (45 chapters) making it ideal for both one- and two-semester Business Law and Legal Environment courses and Immigration Law and Compliance, a mini-textbook primarily intended as an inexpensive ($5.95-$12.95) companion to all business law and legal studies textbooks, including mine. I LOVE my job!

Hofstra University Distinguished Professorships Announced

I have said and written many times in the past that I am fortunate to have the best secular job on earth. It is a privilege to be in the business of helping to change lives for the better, and my greatest aspiration has always been to have all of my students one day outshine me for they give meaning to my life's work which is ultimately all about them. A good number of former students (and now colleagues) are on my LinkedIn network and I am thrilled to see their personal and professional growth throughout the years. I am enormously proud of them and of their achievements. 

I am equally proud of my colleagues at Hofstra University generally and in the Zarb School of Business and my Department in particular. They are a dedicated group of professionals whose personal and combined achievements I have always found humbling. 

This has been a difficult summer for me due to a variety of personal issues and health-related issues of loved ones. But there are two silver linings for which I am very grateful. First, it has been a very productive summer in terms of my research and writing. (Being unable to travel has its advantages.) And second, Hofstra University announced yesterday six new distinguished professorships at the university effective September 1, including two from my department: Dr. Jacqueline Burke, Professor and Chair, is being appointed as the new Chaykin Distinguished Professor in Accounting, and I am being appointed as the Cypres Family Distinguished Professor in Legal Studies in Business.

My congratulations to all of my Hofstra University and Zarb School colleagues with whom it is a pleasure and privilege to serve (the new appointments, four of which are from the Zarb School of Business, are as follows):

• Margaret Abraham as the Wachtel Distinguished Professor for Non-Violent Social Change
• Jacqueline Burke as the Chaykin Distinguished Professor in Accounting
• Victor Lopez as the Cypres Family Distinguished Professor in Legal Studies in Business
• Andrew Spieler as the Robert F. Dall Distinguished Professor in Business
• Jason Williams as the Donald E. Axinn Distinguished Professor in Ecology and Conservation
• Boonghee Yoo as the RMI Distinguished Professor in Business

I am sure that my colleagues would agree that while formal acknowledgment of our contributions by way of tenure, promotion, distinguished professorships and other awards are always gratifying and gratefully received, no acknowledgment or award can compare with the most meaningful test of our value to the institutions we serve: the ultimate success of our students. Everything else is just sweet icing on the cake.

David Bellavia Hall of Heros Induction Ceremony

A reading of six sonnets from my Of Pain and Ecstasy Collected Poems

A reading of the poem "On Shattered Dreams" from my Of Pain and Ecstasy collection

A reading of the poem "Unsung Heroes: Remedios" from my Of Pain and Ecstasy collection