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Lori Nessel

Lori Nessel

Professor Lori A. Nessel joined Seton Hall in 1995 and is Dean's Fellow and Director of the Center for Social Justice. She regularly teaches immigration and refugee law courses and supervises live cases in the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic, including claims under the Refugee Convention, Torture Convention, as well as cases involving human trafficking, family reunification and other forms of relief from deportation. She has also been actively involved in designing the new International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project and is one of the principle faculty members engaged in the Haiti Rule of Law Project.

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The Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice will name as Center for Social Justice Scholars two outstanding students from the first-year class who demonstrate a strong commitment to public service and who are planning public interest careers. One CSJ Scholar will work with the International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project and the other CSJ Scholar will work with the Urban Revitalization Project. The Scholars, who will serve until graduation, will be offered a range of public interest opportunities and benefits, including:

  1. a first-year summer legal internship at a prestigious public interest organization with a summer stipend funded through a Public Interest Legal Fellowship;
  2. a $10,000 tuition scholarship for the remaining years in law school;
  3. the opportunity to work during the student’s second year as an extern with one of the Center for Social Justice’s Projects;
  4. the opportunity to work as a research assistant during the second year for a professor whose scholarship focuses on an issue of public interest;
  5. the opportunity for a year-long enrollment in a clinic during the third year of law school;
  6. the opportunity to participate in public interest networking events and opportunities.

The CSJ Scholar chosen to work with the Urban Revitalization Project will be offered a 10-week summer internship this summer at the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project in New York City, the opportunity to serve as an extern in CSJ’s Urban Revitalization Project during the student’s second year; and a year-long enrollment in Professor Fisher’s or Professor Jeffries’ Civil Litigation Clinic during the student’s third or fourth year of law school.

The CSJ Scholar chosen to work with the International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project will be offered a 10-week summer internship at a prestigious human rights organization in the New York City metropolitan area; the opportunity to serve as an extern in CSJ’s International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project during the student’s second year; and a year-long enrollment in Professor Nessel’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic or Professor Azmy’s Civil Litigation Clinic during the student’s third or fourth year of law school.

Interested applicants must submit a résumé, an unofficial transcript, one legal writing sample, one letter of recommendation, one additional reference, and a cover letter articulating the student’s commitment to public interest law and indicating whether he or she would like to be considered for the International Human Rights/Rule of Law Project or the Urban Revitalization Project.

Questions may be directed to Professor Lori Nessel, Director of the Center for Social Justice.

Meet Keara Waldron and Kevin Donahue, our 2009-2010 CSJ Scholars