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LORI NESSEL

LORI NESSEL

Professor of Law, CSJ Director 

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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NJ LEEP - NJ Law and Education Empowerment Project

Seton Hall School of Law has partnered with NJLEEP, a pipeline diversity initiative, whose director is Craig Livermore. Its mission is dedicated to providing urban minority students with exposure, skills, and  excitement in order to obtain academic success  in college and law school.  NJLEEP has offices within Seton Hall Law and has drawn upon the Center for Social Justice’s pro bono and public interest students to launch this program in the Spring 2007 semester.

  1. The Community Law and Education Project, founded in 2006 by Craig Livermore, is designed to provide training and support for law students to effectively teach law-related lessons in high schools and middle schools in Newark and East Orange. Law students teach a curriculum based upon criminal and constitutional law in an interactive student-centered setting. Students from the community are invited at the end of each semester to visit the law school for a graduation ceremony. The mission of the project is to provide a rewarding experience for law students in their legal education, to expose community students to the possibility of studying law, and to focus on the empowerment manifest when urban youth are trained to build analytical skills.
  2. Summer Law Institute is a five-week criminal course at Seton Hall Law School for students between their eighth and ninth grades.  The Institute will end with a mock trial in front of New Jersey sitting judges.
  3. After-School Program, is a five day a week program at Seton Hall Law School for students in grades 9 – 12, designed to build skills need for college success.  Students in grades 10-12 will also participate in law-related programs including Constitutional Law Debates, summer internships at law firms, and the mentoring program in which each student will have an attorney mentor.

More information on NJLEEP.