John B. Wefing, Distinguished Professor of New Jersey Law & History
Seton Hall | Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: Mayor Hague  

John B. Wefing, the Distinguished Professor of New Jersey Law & History, has recently authored a biography of Richard J. Hughes, the only person to serve as both Governor and Chief Justice of New Jersey.The book was chosen as a 2010 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.In April of 2011, the Governor of New Jersey appointed Professor Wefing to the Governor's Council on Higher Education.

Professor Wefing specializes in federal and state constitutional law with particular emphasis on criminal issues. John B. Wefing has been a Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of law for the past 44 years. He has taught numerous courses including courses dealing with the New Jersey Constitution and the New Jersey Court System. He has written many law review articles. During his tenure at Seton Hall he has served as associate dean and acting dean. He has received many awards including the Young Lawyer of the Year from the New Jersey State Bar Association, the McQuade Medal presented for outstanding contributions to Seton Hall University and the Thomas More Medal for his devotion to the law and the Catholic Church. He was twice selected as Professor of the year by the student body.In 2012, he was selected "Teacher of the Year" by the New Jersey Academic Studies Alliance. Professor Wefing has been appointed by governors of New Jersey to state commissions. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Mount Saint Dominic Academy for his work on its board. He is "of counsel" to the firm of Waters McPherson McNeill in Secaucus, N.J. He is a graduate of St. Peter's Prep and College. His law degree is from Catholic University and he holds a masters degree in law from New York University. He is married to the Honorable Dorothea O'C Wefing, who recently retired from her position, Presiding Judge for Administration of the Appellate Division, temporarily assigned to the New Jersey Supreme Court. They have three children, John, Paul and Dorry.

Sheila Foster, Vice Dean & Albert A. Walsh Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
And
Nestor M. Davidson, Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: Environmental Justice, Urban Issues & Property

Sheila Foster is the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law at Fordham University.She is also a co-director of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics.Professor Foster teaches courses in Tort Law, Environmental Law, Land Use Law and Anti-discrimination Law. Prior to joining Fordham, she was a Professor of Law at the Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey from 1994-2001.Professor Foster received her B.A. in English, with honors, from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her J.D. in from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley.After law school, she worked for two years as an Associate Attorney in the San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster. She then served for four years as a lecturer and coordinator of academic support at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Foster is the author of numerous publications on land use, environmental law, and anti-discrimination law. Much of her work is dedicated to exploring the intersection of civil rights and environmental law, in a field called "environmental justice." She is the coauthor (with Luke Cole) of From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (N.Y.U. Press) and co-editor of the 2nd edition of The Law of Environmental Justice (with Michael Gerrard 2008). She has consulted with many community-based groups in New Jersey and New York on environmental justice issues. She has also received two Ford Foundation grants for projects related to her work on environmental justice and urban development.Her most recent work explores and challenges the legal and theoretical frameworks in which land use decisions are made, particularly in the urban context.These works include Collective Action and the Urban Commons (Notre Dame Law Review, 2011), Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemma, (U. Miami Inter-American Law Review, 2009), Integrative Lawyering: Navigating the Political Economy of Urban Development, (California Law Review, 2007), and The City as an Ecological Space: Social Capital and Urban Land Use (Notre Dame Law Review, 2006).

Professor Davidson's teaching and scholarship focus on property, land use, local government law, transactional lawyering in the public-private context, and affordable housing law and policy.  Professor Davidson practiced with the firm of Latham & Watkins, focusing on commercial real estate and affordable housing, and served as Special Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Prior to joining Fordham, he was an Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law School from 2004 to 2011. Professor Davidson earned his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.  After law school, he clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States.  

Marci Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: Constitutional Law & First Amendment 

Marci A. Hamilton is one of the United States' leading church/state scholars and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.  She is the author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (Cambridge University Press 2008, 2012) and God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press 2005, 2007).  She has been a columnist on constitutional issues since 2000.  She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New York University School of Law, Emory University School of Law, and the Princeton Theological Seminary. Professor Hamilton has served as constitutional and federal law counsel in many important clergy sex abuse and religious land use cases in state and federal courts, and has testified before numerous state legislatures regarding elimination of the statutes of limitations for childhood sex abuse.  She is frequently asked to advise Congress and state legislatures on the constitutionality of pending legislation and to consult in cases involving important constitutional issues.  She was lead counsel for the City of Boerne, Texas, in Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997), before the Supreme Court in its seminal federalism and church/state case holding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act unconstitutional.  Professor Hamilton clerked for Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She also received her M.A. in Philosophy and M.A., high honors, in English from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.  She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif.

Scott Hemphill, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Chief Antitrust Bureau, NY State Office of the Attorney General
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: Antitrust

Scott Hemphill is Chief of the Antitrust Bureau, in the Office of the New York State Attorney General. He is on leave from Columbia Law School, where he is a Professor of Law. Before joining the Columbia faculty, he served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and to Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in economics, both from Stanford, and is a graduate of Harvard and the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar. His writing has appeared in the law reviews of Columbia, NYU, and Stanford, the Wall Street Journal, and peer-reviewed journals in economics and law.

Paula Franzese, Professor of Law
Seton Hall | Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: Law Teaching for the Conceptual Age

Professor Paula Franzese, the Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law, is one of the country's leading experts in property law as well as government ethics. She has spearheaded ethics reform initiatives on behalf of three governors, serving as Special Ethics Counsel to Governor Richard Codey, Chair of the State Ethics Commission, Vice-Chair of the Election Law Enforcement Commission and as ethics advisor to state and local governments across the country, including Mayor Cory Booker's administration in Newark.

The author of numerous publications, her scholarship in the area of Property Law includes critical examination of common interest communities, homeowners associations and the dilemma of privatization, the law of servitudes, exclusionary zoning, affordable housing, adverse possession doctrine and takings law. She joined in the submission to the U.S. Supreme Court of an amicus brief in the Kelo Case, and has written and presented on takings law reform. She has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a highly coveted honor, is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Sir Thomas More Medal of Honor, the YWCA Woman of Influence Award, the Women Lawyers Association's Trailblazer Award, and the State Bar Foundation's Medal of Honor. Most recently, in December, 2011 she was presented with the National Council on Governmental Ethics Laws(COGEL)Award, the highest form of recognition conferred by the organization, in honor of her "significant, demonstrable and positive contributions to the fields of campaign finance, elections, ethics, freedom of information and lobbying over a significant period of time." Amongst her groundbreaking initiatives in those arenas, she and Justice Daniel J. O'Hern promulgated the Uniform Ethics Code, a pioneering statutory achievement and a model for national replication.

Professor Franzese was a litigator with Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel in New York City, where she also served as a member of the New York Housing Court Reform Project and the Governor's Task Force on Life and Law. She clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was awarded the Bryson Prize, Alpha Zeta Fellowship, Marion Churchill White Prize, Davidson-Foreman Foundation Award and Barnard Alumnae Fellowship, and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was an International Fellow, Teaching Fellow and recipient of the prestigious Rosenman Prize for excellence in public law courses.

Professor Glynn joined the Seton Hall Law School faculty in 1999. He teaches in the corporate, employment, and civil procedure areas. Outside of the classroom, he provides assistance and mentoring to students in a variety of ways, including serving as the advisor for the law school's corporate concentration, and its SEC and NYSE externship programs. The student body honored Professor Glynn as Professor of the Year in 2002-03. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of full professor, and, in 2008, he was named the Miriam T. Rooney Professor of Law. Professor Glynn has written in the areas of corporate law, employment law, the law of evidentiary privileges, and civil procedure. In 2007, he published a casebook, Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations (with Rachel Arnow-Richman and Charles Sullivan), which introduces students to the employer-employee relationship by exploring the tension between privately ordered terms and public mandates. His other recent scholarship focuses on the allocation of responsibility and decision making authority within the corporation as well as the impact of choice-of-law doctrine and interjurisdictional competition on different corporate stakeholders. Thus, from a variety of perspectives, he addresses how prevailing legal norms in the corporate context affect not only shareholders and managers, but also employees, creditors, counsel, and society. Professor Glynn received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Donald P. Lay, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He then practiced law as an associate at the firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focusing in the areas of securities, business, and employment litigation. Prior to joining Seton Hall, he again served as a judicial clerk, this time for the Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Professor Sullivan received his B.A. from Siena College, his LL.B. from Harvard University and his LL.M. from New York University. He practiced in New York and previously taught at the University of South Carolina and the University of Arkansas. Dean Sullivan has published in the areas of employment discrimination, employment law, contracts, and antitrust. He is co-author of Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice, now in its Fourth Edition; Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination, now in its Seventh Edition; Employment Law: Private Ordering And Its Limitation (2007); and Cases and Materials on Employment Law (1993). Professor Sullivan has written a number of law review articles, most recently having published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. An elected member of the American Law Institute, he joined the Seton Hall Law faculty in 1978. He was honored with the Catania Chair in 2010, named in memory of a deceased colleague, friend, and co-author. He served as Associate Dean at Seton Hall from 1995 until 2001.

Howard Erichson, Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic:  Civil Procedure & Complex Litigation

Professor Howard Erichson teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Professional Responsibility. He has published widely on topics of procedure and ethics, particularly as they relate to mass torts and other complex litigation. He is the past chair of the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools, was an Advisor to the American Law Institute's Principles of Aggregate Litigation, and has served on the District Ethics Committee and the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee.  He is the author of the book Inside Civil Procedure, co-author of a leading casebook on Complex Litigation, and co-editor of the Mass Tort Litigation Blog.  His articles have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review and other leading publications.  Frequently sought by the media, he has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Public Radio and many others. Professor Erichson graduated from Harvard University and from New York University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Before coming to Fordham, he clerked for Justice Stewart Pollock of the New Jersey Supreme Court and for Chief Judge James Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, practiced as a litigator with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City, and he joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School, where he was elected Professor of the Year and he later was named the John J. Gibbons Professor of Law. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and a Visiting Scholar at NYU Law School. Professor Erichson joined the Fordham Law School faculty in 2007, and in 2012 he was elected teacher of the year.

Solangel Maldonado, Professor of Law
Seton Hall | Law
Law Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: "Race & Marriage: Law's Influence on Romantic Preference"

Professor Solangel Maldonado's research and teaching interests include family law, feminist legal theory, race and the law, and international and comparative family law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of race and family law and on the legal regulation of children's relationships with parental figures. Her current research examines the law's influence on individuals' preferences for romantic partners of certain races. She joined the Seton Hall Law faculty in 2001 and was named the Joseph M. Lynch Research Fellow in 2007. Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty, Professor Maldonado was a litigation associate with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in New York. She also clerked for then District Court Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., now on the United States Court of Appeals. Professor Maldonado received her B.A. from Columbia College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. She is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association and, in that capacity, collaborated with five other law professors on a comprehensive report on the jurisprudence of then U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor in connection with her nomination and confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2010, Professor Maldonado was honored by the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey for her contributions to the legal profession. Professor Maldonado is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts and chairs the Dean's Diversity Council, an advisory body that supports Seton Hall Law's efforts to promote a diverse academic and legal community. As part of her work with the Diversity Council, in 2010 she organized the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, the largest gathering of diverse law faculty in the United States.