Thomas Hare

Thomas Hare is a Lecturer-in-Law in the undergraduate program at UB School of Law.  Prior to joining the law school, Hare was the Assistant Professor of Business Law at St. Bonaventure University from 2020-2022, where he taught business law and business ethics courses to undergraduate and graduate M.B.A. students.

Hare is a licensed attorney in the state of New Mexico, where he has six years of criminal and civil litigation experience including service with the State of New Mexico Law Offices of the Public Defender from 2014-2015. He served as a high school substitute teacher in Sidney, Montana from 2017-2018, and also served as a program coordinator with the Boys & Girls Club of Richland County in Sidney from January-December 2017.

Hare is a graduate of the U.S. Border Patrol Academy and served as a Border Patrol Agent at Campo Station in San Diego, California. Hare also served as an auditor for the U.S. Air Force Audit Agency.

Hare earned his J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law and his LL.M. from Wayne State University Law School. He holds his master’s in taxation from the University of New Orleans and his bachelor’s in accounting, magna cum laude, from Alabama A&M University.

Hare currently teaches Law 101, Introduction to American Legal Institutions and Law 301, Legal Reasoning. His research interests include business law, securities regulation and employment law.