Emanuel B. Halper's CV - Hofstra University School of Law

Emanuel B. Halper’s CVNever content to focus on a single discipline, Professor Emanuel B. Halper is ateacher, attorney, and author as well as a real estate consultant, investor, and broker. Hehas also been a real estate developer and an entertainer.His interest in real estate started three years after law school when he signed on asan assistant to the General Counsel of Howard Stores Corporation, a men’s and boys’clothing manufacturer with its own chain of retail outlets. At Howard, Professor Halperlearned to negotiate shopping center leases and many business aspects of shoppingcenter development.This experience proved invaluable later when he joined the staff of Frederick Zissu,general counsel of Vornado, Inc. Now a real estate investment trust, Vornado was ageneral merchandise retail organization back then. It operated the Two Guys DepartmentStores in its early years and later acquired Food Giant Markets supermarkets, Foster’sFreeze fast food outlets, and Builder's Emporium home improvement centers. Still later,it disposed of its retail ventures and concentrated on expanding its real estate real estateportfolio.Activities As an AttorneyIn 1965, Professor Halper was a founding partner of the New York City law firm,Zissu Halper & Martin, and the firm became Vornado’s general counsel. In a few years,he became the firm’s senior partner and continued in that capacity until he retired from thefirm in 1987. His department specialized in shopping center, office, and industrial leases;ground leases; financing transactions; and development contracts.Actively involved with legal professional societies for many years, Emanuel Halperis Chair of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section’sCommunity Outreach Committee and a member of its Diversity Committee. TheCommunity Outreach program (of which he is the founder) trains members of minoritygroup bar associations in major metropolitan areas (currently operating in New York,Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington) in basic skills lawyers need to specializein real estate law, estate planning, and trust administration.He was a member of the Section’s Supervisory Council from 1994 to 2000. In thatperiod, he also served on its Continuing Legal Education Committee, Planning Committee,and Committee on Committees. From 1986 through 1994, he was Chairman of theSection’s Commercial & Industrial Leasing Group and of its predecessor, the CommercialCV Page 1

Leasing Committee.The American Bar Association honored him with two awards personally and hisefforts in founding and developing the Community Outreach Program with a third. In 1976,he was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the A.B.A. in recognition of a distinguishedcontribution to public understanding of the American system of law and justice. In 2005,he received A.B.A.’s Spirit of Excellence Award, and, in 2006, he accepted A.B.A.’sPartnership Award on behalf of the Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section.As Chairman of the International Real Estate Committee of the World Associationof Lawyers, he led seminars on international real estate problems in Madrid, Sao Paulo,Cairo, and Berlin. He served on the American Arbitration Association's panel of arbitratorsand the International Council of Shopping Centers' Law Committee. He was also amember of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.Development ActivitiesEmanuel Halper began his real estate development activities as a partner ofCanadian Pacific Realty Company and a member of Vornado’s Real Estate Committee(and later as President of its real estate subsidiary). Canadian Pacific is a Fairfield, NewJersey commercial development organization.Afterwards, as director of the real estate development program of Chase Enterprisesof Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Halper administered the acquisition, leasing, design, andconstruction of office buildings, shopping centers and other commercial projects.His current development consulting organization is American Development &Consulting Corporation of which he serves as President.Teaching ActivitiesHis teaching career was initiated with a fifteen-year stint at New York University'sReal Estate Institute which began in 1971. His courses at N.Y.U. included ShoppingCenter Development, Real Estate Transactions, and Real Estate Negotiation Techniques.Initially appointed as a lecturer, he was promoted later to Adjunct Professor of Real Estate.N.Y.U. honored him with an award for teaching excellence in 1978.In 1998, he was appointed a Special Professor of Law by Hofstra University LawSchool and continued in that capacity until the end of 2006. His title at Hofstra waschanged on January 1, 2007 to Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Visiting Professor.His Hofstra courses include Commercial Leasing, Real Estate Transactions, CommercialCV Page 2

Development Contracts, and Real Estate Negotiation Techniques. In association with theLaw School, Mr. Halper was a cofounder and Chairman of the Editorial Policy Committeeof the International Property Investment Journal (later to become the Hofstra PropertyJournal).He also taught at Adelphi University, the New School for Social Research, and theGraduate School of Business of the University of Wisconsin.Books and Articles PublishedMr. Halper's first book, The Wonderful World of Real Estate, was published byWarren, Gorham & Lamont, Inc. in 1975. In 1990, a paperback version of this book(renamed Conversations in Real Estate) was published by the American Bar Association.His second book, Shopping Center and Store Leases, was published by LawJournal Seminars/Press in 1979 and has been supplemented twenty-two times. A twovolumesecond edition was released in 1989. His third book, Ground Leases and LandAcquisition Contracts, was published by Law Journal Seminars/Press in 1988. It has beensupplemented twice.His articles have appeared in Money Magazine; Apartment Life; Medical Economics;Condominium World; Real Estate Law Journal; the Hofstra Law Review, the New York LawJournal; the National Law Journal; the International Property Investment Journal; Probateand Property; Value Retail News; Practical Real Estate Lawyer; Real Property, Probateand Trust Law Journal; The Commercial Property Lease; and Real Estate Review. As acontributing editor of the Real Estate Review, Emanuel B. Halper was the author of “Peopleand Property,” a regular feature of that quarterly from1971 to 1999. His column, "ThinkingAbout Real Estate,” has been featured in the New York Law Journal occasionally. Someof his articles have been included in real estate law anthologies and law school propertylaw text books.EducationBorn in New York City in 1933, he attended New York City public schools. He wasgraduated from the City University of New York with honors in 1954 and from ColumbiaUniversity Law School in 1957.EntertainmentAs a teenager and young adult, he became an avid square dancer. This interest ledhim to become a professional square dance caller, folk dance leader, and ballroom danceCV Page 3