Professor Howard A. Glickstein started his legal career as an Associate with the New York law firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, specializing in labor law. He served as a Staff Attorney with the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appeals and Research Section, where he helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was General Counsel, and later Staff Director, of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Professor Glickstein also has served as Director of the Notre Dame Center for Civil Rights; Adjunct Professor, Notre Dame Law School; and Professor and Director of the Equal Employment Litigation Clinic at Howard University School of Law.

He was Dean of the University of Bridgeport School of Law from 1980 to 1985, during which time the school obtained full accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) and membership in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He has been Dean and Professor of Law at Touro from 1986 to 2004, and obtained full ABA accreditation for the school in 1989 and membership in the AALS in 1994.

Professor Glickstein is an active member in a number of bar associations, and a member of the Board of Directors of numerous organizations concerned with civil rights. He is Chair of the Town of Huntington Board of Ethics and Financial Disclosure, a member of the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System, and a member of the New York State Chief Judge's Commission on Fiduciary Appointments. Professor Glickstein is a former Chair of the ABA Affirmative Action Committee, and a past president of the Society of American Law Teachers, and a former Commissioner on the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission.