Solangel Maldonado

Solangel Maldonado

Professor of Law

  • Degrees:

  • J.D., Columbia Law School
  • B.A., Columbia College

  • Contact:

  • maldonso@shu.edu
  • Tel:  973-642-8830
  • SSRN Site link

  • Courses:

  • Family Law, Marriage and Divorce
  • Gender and the Law
  • International and Comparative Family Law
  • Estates and Trusts
  • Torts I

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Prof. Franzese to present Leadership with Purpose to Knights of Columbus, Eastern Region, NJ, May 20.

Professor Marina Lao to present Resale Price Maintenance: A Reassessment of its Harms and Benefits” at the ACADEMIC SOCIETY FOR COMPETITION LAW CONFERENCE at George Washington, June 17.

Professor Lori Nessel has published Externalized Borders and the Invisible Refugee, 40 COLUM. HUMAN RTS. L. REV. 625 (2009)

Professor Carl Coleman will serve as rapporteur for a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION meeting on Research Ethics in International Epidemic Response, in Geneva, June 10-11,

Professor Chinh Q Le will present Racially Integrated Education and the Role of the Federal Government at a Capitol Hill POLICY BRIEFING, June 12

Dean Kathleen M. Boozang and Professor Simone Handler-Hutchinson have published Monitoring Corporate Corruption: DOJ's Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in Health Care, 35 AM. J. L. & MED. 89 (2009)

Professor Tracy Kaye has published Europe’s Balancing Act: Trends in Taxation, 62 TAX L. REV. 193 (2009)

Professor Carl Coleman has published Do Physicians' Legal Duties Conflict with Public Health Values? The Case of Antibiotic Overprescription in the JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY.

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Solangel Maldonado

Professor of Law

Solangel Maldonado specializes in family law, specifically the law’s responsibility for paternal disengagement and inter-parental hostility after divorce. Her work also examines the legal and social implications of transracial and transcultural adoptions.

In 2007, Professor Maldonado’s research took her abroad. She conducted research on paternal involvement in nonmarital families at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She also delivered the keynote address to the New Zealand Family Law Society in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Following graduation from Columbia Law School, Professor Maldonado served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She also worked as a litigation associate with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood and with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP.

Professor Maldonado is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association and the Columbia College Alumni Representative Committee. She has served on the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, the Board of Directors of the Dominican Bar Association, and the New York Supreme Court Judicial Screening Panel.

She came to Seton Hall in 2001 and was awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in 2006. She was named the Joseph M. Lynch Research Fellow in 2007.

Taking Account of Children’s Emotions: Love, Anger and Nurture After Divorce,  Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. (forthcoming 2008) (paper delivered at symposium at University of Virginia School of Law, “Law and Emotion: Re-Envisioning Family Law”)

Permanency v. Permanent Ties: The Case for Post Adoption Contact,  Capital L. Rev.  (forthcoming 2008) (paper delivered at symposium at Capital University Law School, “Hearing the Child’s Voice: Selected Adoption and Child Welfare Topics”)

Cultivating Forgiveness: Reducing Hostility and Conflict after Divorce, Wake Forest L. Rev. (2008)

Race, Culture, and Adoption: Lessons From Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, 17 Colum. J. Gender & L. 1 (2008)

 The Story of the Holyfield Twins: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, Family Law Stories (Carol Sanger ed., forthcoming 2007)