Law School Press Releases

CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENTS’ WIN TWO ASYLUM CASES IN NEWARK IMMIGRATION COURT

governor corzine speaks on repeal of death penalty at seton hall law conference

SETON HALL LAW STUDENTS BRING HOME AWARDS DURING FINAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION WEEKEND  Team Finishes Season with 27 Awards, a Record for the School Final Victories at ABA and Brooklyn Law School

Community Law Day Introduces Urban Youth to the Legal Profession at Seton Hall Law School  Hispanic Bar Association Co-Sponsors Event

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION OFFICERS SUED FOR CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS IN PRE-DAWN HOME RAIDS PRACTICE  Complaint cites pattern of dragnet sweeps, “culture of lawlessness”

SETON HALL LAW RISING CAMPAIGN HITS $15 MILLION MARK 
More than a Half-Dozen New Scholarships Created

SETON HALL LAW ASIAN STUDENT ORGANIZATION HONORS CITY OF NEWARK SPECIAL COUNSEL, ANEY CHANDY, ESQ.  Mayor Booker: “Aney Chandy holds a standard which is above and beyond.”

Seton Hall Law School Students Make Their Mark in Moot Court Competitions  
Earned Eight Awards and Honors in Three National Competitions

Seton Hall Law Students Uncover Proof that Guantánamo Interrogations Routinely Videotaped General Reports More than 24,000 Interrogations Conducted Since 2002; Assertions that All Interrogations Were Videotaped Affect Impending 9/11 Trials

LAWSUIT CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT’S WITHHOLDING OF DOCUMENTS CONCERNING PRE-DAWN IMMIGRATION HOME RAIDS IN NEW JERSEY

Newark police sued for arrest of newspaper publisher Brazilian Voice publisher held until photos released

NJ LEEP and Seton Hall Law School Partner with Newark Law Department for Mayor’s Internship Program

Seton Hall Law Women’s Law Forum to Honor New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram with “Woman of Substance” Award

Seton Hall Law School to U.S. Attorney General: Stop the Deportation of Victims of Genital Mutilation

Professor Mark C. Alexander Presented with Leadership New Jersey Award for Outstanding Civic and Political Service

Professor Mark Denbeaux Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Seton Hall Law’s Latest Guantánamo Report Disproving the Government’s Claims that Many Detainees Have Joined the Battlefield Upon Release

ABI Study Led by Professor Lubben Finds Numerous Variables Influence Chapter 11 Professional Fees

Seton Hall Law School Students Gain Top Positions in Legal Competitions – Earning First Place Finish in American Bar Association’s Regional Negotiation Competition and Second Place and Best Brief Honors in National Health Law Moot Court Competition

West Point Study Confirms Findings of Seton Hall Law’s Report Showing Few Guantánamo Detainees Were Captured on Any Battlefield

Seton Hall Law Review to Present "When the Fighting Stops: Roles and Responsibilities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction"

Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner comes to Newark, Urges Liberians to Recount Stories of War

SETON HALL SCHOOL OF LAW PRESENTS THE INTERNATIONAL LAW JUDGES FORUM

Seton Hall School of Law Launches $25 Million "Seton Hall Law Rising" Capital Campaign

Seton Hall Law School to Host Forum Exploring the Record of the U.N. in Advancing Human Rights in Haiti

U.S. ATTORNEY CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIE TO RECEIVE SAINT THOMAS MORE MEDAL AT SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL’S ANNUAL RED MASS

SETON HALL LAW OFFERS CONSTITUTION DAY PROGRAM ON INTERROGATION AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING

Seton Hall School of Law on Second Life: Constitution Day Program on Interrogation and Intelligence Gathering to be Featured at Virtual Guantánamo Bay Detention Center

Seton Hall University School of Law Professors Presented with Fulbright Awards and Fellowships For Studies in U.S., Germany and Spain

Professor Mark Denbeaux and Law Student Christa Boyd-Nafstad to publish "The Attorney - Client Relationship in Guantánamo Bay" in the Fordham International Law Journal

New Jersey Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society Presents
Seton Hall Law Students with its William Paterson Award in Recognition
of Their Work on the "Guantánamo Reports"

Seton Hall Law School Receives $9.1 Million Endowment Gifts to Establish The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law and Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

Center for Social Justice Sues Group of Real Estate Sellers, Brokers and Appraisers to Stop Predatory Property Flipping and Lending Scheme against Newark First-Time Home Buyer

Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to be Presented with Honorary Degree at Seton Hall University School of Law's 2007 Commencement Ceremony

Seton Hall University School of Law Mourns the Passing of Rev. Daniel A. Degnan, Former Dean and One of the School's Early Leaders

Seton Hall Law Students "Plant the Roots for Our Community" with the Annual Public Interest Auction

Seton Hall Law School Students Win National Child Welfare and Adoption Law Moot Court Competition

Seton Hall Law Professor Mark C. Alexander Joins Barack Obama’s Presidential
Exploratory Team

Jackson Lewis LLP Initiates Employment Law Scholarship at Seton Hall Law School

Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice Wins $700,000 Settlement
for Daughter of Victim in Police Misconduct Case

Creating a College-Bound Pathway for Urban Youth: Seton Hall Law School
Partners with NJ LEEP

IN CASE OF CANADIAN TORTURED IN SYRIA AT BEHEST OF U.S., CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLARS FILE BRIEF ARGUING THAT TORTURE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES

LAWSUIT CHALLENGES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S WITHHOLDING OF TRANSCRIPTS THAT COULD EXONERATE FORMER GUANTÁNAMO BAY DETAINEE

JOHN V. JACOBI OF SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW TO JOIN GOVERNOR JON CORZINE'S ADMINISTRATION AS SENIOR ASSOCIATE COUNSEL.

AMANDA TAYLOR OF SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL PRESENTED WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MATRIMONIAL LAWYERS

Seton Hall Law Retains Former Bronx Public Defender and Author David Feige to Direct Innovative "SKILLS" Training Program

SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL FILES SUIT TO DECLARE CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDING GAP UNCONSTITUTIONAL

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE WINS APPEAL FOR PRISONER BLINDED BY DENIAL OF APPROPRIATE MEDICAL TREATMENT

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LAUNCHES CENTER FO CHURCH-RELATED NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS

SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL FILES SUIT TO COMPEL NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO COMPLY WITH THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT

SUPPORTING LAW STUDENTS INTERESTED IN CAREERS IN FEDERAL SERVICE: THE SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW SAMUEL J. HEYMAN PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM

ACLU, Seton Hall Law School File Suit to Challenge Termination of Renowned Arab-American Security Expert, One of Nation’s Foremost Aviation Security Experts Terminated From TSA on Account of Arab and Muslim Heritage

Seton Hall Law Students Draft Brief for U.S. Supreme Court

Interference with Inmates' Mail Ruled Unconstitutional:
Federal Appeals Court Supports Seton Hall University School of Law's Position
in New Jersey Court Case

GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEE MURAT KURNAZ RELEASED BY PENTAGON
Kurnaz, Symbol for the Wrongfully Detained at Guantánamo, Returning to Home Country of Germany after Nearly Five Years in Detention"
 

SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL REPORT ON Guantánamo DETAINEES: FINDS THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S OWN DATA REFUTES "ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE"
 

SHAVAR D. JEFFRIES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AT SETON HALL LAW, TO RECEIVE FIRST-EVER "BRENDAN T. BYRNE AND MRS. RUTHI ZINN BYRNE DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD"
 

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW STUDENTS PRESENTED WITH JOSEPH P. MIELE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
 

NJSBF TO HONOR PAULA FRANZESE, PETER W. RODINO PROFESSOR OF LAW AT SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL, WITH ITS HIGHEST AWARD
 

TIMOTHY G. ROTHWELL, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S., PRESENTED WITH SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL 2006 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD

SETON HALL LAW STUDENT INITIATES PETITION OPPOSING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BELARUS

PAULA FRANZESE, PETER W. RODINO PROFESSOR OF LAW AT SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL, TO RECEIVE THE ALAIN DANIELS CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AWARD

FREED!  GRASSROOTS HAITIAN ACTIVIST REPRESENTED BY SETON HALL LAW STUDENTS AND TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEYS RELEASED AFTER A YEAR OF UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT

SETON HALL LAW STUDENTS JOIN WITH TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEYS TO FILE PETITION WITH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CHALLENGING HAITI'S YEAR-LONG IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE OF GRASSROOTS POLITICAL ACTIVIST

NEW JERSEY SHOULD COLLECT INTEREST ON PAST-DUE CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS ARGUES SETON HALL LAW FAMILY LAW CLINIC... AND THE APPELLATE DIVISION AGREES

SETON HALL'S HEALTH LAW PROGRAM RANKED 4TH IN THE COUNTRY

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW MOURNS THE PASSING OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS GERARD M. CAREY, ONE OF THE SCHOOL'S EARLY ARCHITECTS

SETON HALL LAW PROFESSOR'S ARTICLE ON "THE UNDER-THEORIZED ASTERISK FOOTNOTE" PLACED ON GREEN BAG'S EXEMPLARY LEGAL WRITING LIST FOR 2005

SAMUEL J. HEYMAN PRESENTS SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL WITH A $250,000 PLEDGE TO SUPPORT GRADUATES INTERESTED IN FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE

SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS RAISE $6,953 FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA

Seton Hall Law School Annual Peter R. Rodino, Jr. Banquet And Award Ceremony

NEW CHIEF JUSTICE’S FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS – THE ADMISSION OF EIGHT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW GRADUATES TO THE SUPREME COURT BAR

Seton Hall  Alumna Selected for Prestigious Dean Acheson Legal Stage Program

DEAN PATRICK E. HOBBS, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY AND STUDENTS HELP HAITIANS IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PRESENTS "BANKRUPTCY IN THE RELIGIOUS NON-PROFIT CONTEXT" SYMPOSIUM

MARK BARNES, PARTNER, ROPES & GRAY LLP TO PRESENT "THE IMPACT OF HIPAA ON MEDICAL RESEARCH" AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW HEALTH LAW & POLICY PROGRAM DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY AND THE NEW JERSEY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION DISCUSS HATCH-WAXMAN DEVELOPMENTS

PROFESSOR CORNELL WEST, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, TO LECTURE AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

PROFESSOR PAULA A. FRANZESE HONORED AT 2004 RED MASS CEREMONY

NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN THE COURTS PRESENTS "SURVIVAL, EMPOWERMENT, AND GROWTH: THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE"

WOMEN'S LAW FORUM AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PRESENTS LOIS VAN DEUSEN, J.D., MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP, WITH THE "WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE AWARD"

SCOTT TUROW, ATTORNEY AND AUTHOR, TO SPEAK AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

AKHIL REED AMAR, PROFESSOR OF LAW, YALE LAW SCHOOL, TO LECTURE AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

PROFESSOR BERNARD M. HARTNETT JR., ESQ., HONORED AT 2003 RED MASS CEREMONY

 Thursday, August 21, 2003

JANET RENO, FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW'S STUDENT ORIENTATION

Friday, May 22, 2003

CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIE, J.D., U.S. ATTORNEY FOR NEW JERSEY, TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW COMMENCEMENT

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PROFESSOR RECEIVES FULBRIGHT AWARD

Saturday, April 12, 2003

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW TO HONOR FUTURE NJ STATE BAR PRESIDENT KAROL CORBIN WALKER AS DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE

HEARING ON THE UNIFORM ATHLETE AGENT ACT (UAAA) HELD AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Thursday, April 10, 2003

SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL CAREER DAY PROGRAM

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW IRISH AMERICAN LAW STUDENT ASSOCIATION HONORS THE HONORABLE JUDGE DOROTHEA O'C. WEFING AT THE 2003 ANNUAL ST. PATRICK'S DAY MASS

ELAINE JONES, PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR-COUNSEL, NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, TO RECEIVE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR MEDAL OF HONOR

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEGAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS EVIDENCE ADMISSIBILITY AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW SYMPOSIUM

ATTORNEY JEROME FACHER TO SPEAK ON "A CIVIL ACTION" AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEGAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS EVIDENCE ADMISSIBILITY AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW SYMPOSIUM

Friday, December 18, 2002

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AWARDS FELLOWSHIP IN HONOR OF FORMER FACULTY MEMBER

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

THE INSTITUTE OF LAW SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW TO HOST A SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS’ LIABILITY FOR SECURITY

Wednesday, October 9, 2002

MERCK VISITING SCHOLAR FRANCES MILLER TO BE AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Saturday, September 27, 2002

UNCOMMON FAITH RELATES THE EARLY YEARS OF OPUS DEI AND THE WORK OF CATHOLICISM’S NEWEST SAINT

Friday, May 24, 2002

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, J.D., ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, TO DELIVER KEYNOTE    ADDRESS AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW COMMENCEMENT

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORS DEUTSCH AND DUNICAN

Friday, February 22, 2002

PANEL EXPLORES PROFILING IN THE 21ST CENTURY AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Wednesday, February 20, 2002

THE SETON HALL LEGISLATIVE BUREAU AND THE HEALTH LAW FORUM – MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

CELEBRATED PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCATE JAN SCHLICTMANN TO PRESIDE OVER AUCTION AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Wednesday, February 2, 2002

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW HOSTS OPEN HOUSE FOR HEALTHCARE, PHARMACEUTICAL, INFORMATION   TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS

Wednesday, January 9, 2002

FORMER UNITED STATES ATTORNEY MARY JO WHITE TO RECEIVE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR MEDAL OF HONOR AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Friday, December 21, 2001

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO SIGN DUAL DEGREE AGREEMENT

Tuesday, November 13, 2001   

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW SYMPOSIUM TO EXAMINE INFORMATION
GATHERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Tuesday, November 6, 2001

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW HOSTS DISCUSSION ON THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND AMERICA'S CHANGING LEGAL LANDSCAPE 

Tuesday, October 30, 2001 

CONFERENCE EXAMINING HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH TO TAKE PLACE AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Monday, October 22, 2001

PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE TO SPEAK AT SETON HALL'S SCHOOL OF DIPLOMACY 

Friday, September 21, 2001

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PROFESSOR RECEIVES FULBRIGHT AWARD

Thursday, September 20, 2001

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY HONORS JOSEPH P. LASALA, ESQ. '72 AT ANNUAL RED MASS

Friday, September 14, 2001

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY HONORS JOSEPH P. LASALA, ESQ. '78 AT ANNUAL RED MASS

Wednesday, September 3, 2001

LAW SCHOOLS UNITED INFORMATION FAIR TO BE HELD AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW IN WAKE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK