Victor D. López is the Cypres Family Distinguished Professor in Legal Studies in Business at Hofstra University's Frank G. Zarb School of Business. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from St. John's University School of Law and a B.A. degree from Queens College, C.U.N.Y. (English Honors Program – Writing). He is a member of the New York State Bar, the New York State Bar Association, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (NEALSB), and serves as a peer reviewer for peer-reviewed journals.

Professor López published several textbooks in the areas of business law and the legal environment of business that have been used in colleges and universities throughout the United States since 1993 to the present. His past publishers include Irwin/Mirror Press, McGraw Hill and Prentice Hall. Since 2010, he published four revised and expanded business law/legal environment textbooks with his new publisher, Textbook Media Press, that are available in inexpensive various print and electronic versions. He also published several books of peculative fiction short stories, two books of poetry, and a novel.