Mary Szto

Visiting Associate Professor
Email: mszto01@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2850

Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York, J.D., 1986                  

Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M.A., Religion, 1983

Chinese University, New Territories, Hong Kong, International Rotary Fellow, 1981-1982

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, B.A., English, 1981

Professor Szto brings extensive teaching experience to her current position at Hamline. She most recently served as a visiting associate professor at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, New York, where she taught courses on Business Organizations and Property. She was a visiting associate professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts (2007-2008), at Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, California (2005-07), at Xiamen University School of Law in Xiamen, China (Spring 2005) and at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, Michigan (1993-1994).

She served at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Huntington, New York as Co-Director, Summer Law Program, and has served as an Associate Professor at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia (1998-2003) and at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California (1994-1998). She began her teaching career at City University School of Law, in Flushing, New York, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor (1992-1993) and earlier worked as an adjunct professor at Nyack College,  in Nyack, New York (Fall 1992).                                                                

She was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 1987 and practiced law in New York City, served as commercial lending counsel at Citibank and was co-founder of a legal services organization in New York. Professor Szto has lectured and written on a variety of matters dealing with both the Chinese and American legal systems. She is co-authoring two books on Chinese law for Carolina Academic Press. Her research interests include gender and the Chinese legal profession; and the relationship between Chinese ritual and law.

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