NEWARK, N.J. – Several faculty members at Seton Hall University School of Law recently were presented with fellowships to conduct research and teach at host institutions in the United States, Germany and Spain this summer and during the 2007-08 academic year. Those recipients are:

Bernard Freamon Receives Fellowship for Modern Day Slavery Research

Bernard Freamon, Professor of Law at Seton Hall School of Law, has been awarded a Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University for the fall 2007 semester.
 

The Gilder Lehman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. The center is dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of slavery and its role in the development of today’s world, as it also connects scholars to the community through a variety of educational programs and professional development workshops.
 

Freamon teaches courses in professional responsibility, comparative law, and Islamic jurisprudence at Seton Hall Law. He also is the founding director of the summer study program in Cairo, Egypt and a new winter intersession program in Zanzibar on “Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking.” In addition, he is the author of a book soon to be published on slavery in Islamic legal history.
 

He also has extensive international experience that includes two years on the law faculty of the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya and a sabbatical semester as a special student at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, the premier educational institution in the Sunni Islamic world.

Freamon received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia University.

Tracy Kaye Awarded Max Planck Grant for Comparative Tax Law Study

Tracy Kaye, Professor of Law at Seton Hall School of Law, has been awarded a Max Planck Grant to conduct comparative tax law research this summer at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany. While there, she will be working on a comparative tax study of the United States’ and European Union’s approaches to economic development incentives.

The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany invites distinguished faculty and accomplished students from around the globe to engage in discussion, research and the study of intellectual property law.

Kaye’s research will center on a comparison of the United States’ and European Union’s approaches to providing subsidies for the promotion of certain public policies. Specifically, her work will examine the procedures that have been implemented by each to allow challenges to tax incentives that might obstruct the efficient functioning of the common market.

At Seton Hall Law, Kaye teaches courses on individual and corporate income tax, and international tax planning. Her scholarship focuses on tax policy, state tax sovereignty, international taxation and comparative taxation. She also is co-director of the law school’s Dean Acheson Legal Stage Program, sponsored by the European Court of Justice and the American Embassy in Luxembourg to advance understanding of European Union law among American lawyers.

Before joining the Seton Hall faculty, Professor Kaye was a legislative assistant for taxes for Sen. John C. Danforth, member of the Senate Finance Committee. She also previously worked as a tax manager with Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst & Young). She received her B.S. from University of Illinois, her M.S. from DePaul University, and her J.D. Georgetown University Law Center.

Marina Lao Receives Fulbright for Comparative Law Research in Germany

Marina Lao, Professor of Law at Seton Hall School of Law, has been presented with a Fulbright Award to lecture and conduct research in Germany for the 2007-08 academic year. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright program’s mission is to build mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and the rest of the world.

Lao teaches courses in antitrust law, corporate law and trade regulation at Seton Hall Law. As part of her Fulbright Award, she will teach a course on United States antitrust law at the University of Munich in its European and International Economic Law graduate program. She also will be working at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich on a comparative study of the United States’ and European Union’s approaches to monopolization law.

Her research is particularly significant in today’s global world where antitrust enforcement can have immeasurable international impact, and the antitrust/competition law decisions of one country can affect business practices far beyond its borders. Because the U.S. and the EU have the most developed antitrust/competition laws in the world, it is crucial for American and European businesses, and the lawyers who represent them, to understand the relevant laws of other jurisdictions.

Lao started her career with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. She later entered private practice and became a partner in an Atlanta, Georgia law firm. Before joining Seton Hall Law, she was a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Temple University School of Law. She received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her J.D. from Albany Law School.

Lori Nessel Receives Fulbright Award for Immigration Policy Study in Spain

Lori Nessel, Professor of Law at Seton Hall School of Law, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to serve as a visiting researcher at the Migration Institute at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.

At Seton Hall Law, Nessel teaches courses on immigration law, oversees the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, and serves as director of the law school’s Center for Social Justice.

The Fulbright Program is one of America’s most well-known educational exchange programs and is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State.

As part of her Fulbright award, Nessel will conduct a study on comparative immigration policy, with a particular focus on Spain’s policies towards African (sub-Saharan) arrivals by sea compared to the United States’ treatment of Haitian immigrants who arrive by sea. She also plans to establish relationships with nongovernmental organizations and clinical programs that represent asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking to expand transnational collaborations for the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall Law.

Upon graduating from law school, Nessel was the recipient of a prestigious Skadden Arps Public Interest Law Fellowship to represent migrant farm workers in upstate New York. Before joining the Seton Hall faculty, she worked on employment discrimination and police brutality cases at a civil rights firm in New York City. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her J.D. from City University School of Law at Queens College.



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