Professor Bernard K. Freamon is the on-site Director of the Cairo Summer Program. His office is located in Room 520 in the Law School. He can be reached at 973-642-8827. His e-mail address is CAIRO@SHU.EDU.

Bernard K. Freamon, Professor of Law
Professor Freamon received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from Rutgers University (Newark.) He also has LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University School of Law. His J.S.D. dissertation, soon to be published, is concerned with conceptions of equality in Islamic Law and their relations to the problem of slavery. He was the founding director of the Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Social Justice and spent two years on the law faculty of the University of Nairobi in Kenya and a sabbatical semester at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He has lectured, consulted, and published in the areas of Islamic Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and Professional Ethics. Professor Freamon is the author of a recent article on martyrdom in Islam entitled “Martyrdom, Suicide, and The Islamic Law of War: A Short Legal History,” 27 Fordham Int’l L.J. 299 (2003), and he is currently pursuing a major research project on the abolition of slavery in the Islamic world.

Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law

Professor Andrews was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and received her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal in Durban. She worked at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg before pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, where she received an LL.M. degree. She spent a brief period at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York before being appointed the Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY, she taught anti-discrimination law and policy, and Aboriginal Law in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Natal, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Amsterdam. In 2002 she was the Stoneman Fellow of Law and Democracy at Albany Law School and the Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney. In 2004 she was a resident at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, working on a manuscript on women's human rights law. She has written extensively on human rights issues in the South African and Australian contexts, and appears frequently on panels addressing issues of international human rights, women, and black people.
Professor Andrews is currently a Visiting Professor at Valparaiso University School of Law.

Chief Justice Garrett Edward Brown, Jr.

Chief Justice Brown is a graduate of Lafayette College (B.A.) and Duke University School of Law (J.D.), and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Vincent S. Haneman, Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1968-1969. His career in public service has included work as Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1969-1971, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division 1971-1972 (Received Attorney General’s Meritorious Service Award); Executive Asst. U.S. Attorney, all with District of NJ, 1972-73; General Counsel, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981-1983; and Acting Maritime Administrator, U.S. Maritime Administration, 1985. He was in private practice as a senior associate, 1973-1975 and partner, Stryker, Tams and Dill, Newark, N.J., 1976-1981. In these positions he specialized in commercial and maritime litigation. Judge Brown was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in January 1986. Judge Brown is currently a member of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. and the Third Circuit Judicial Council. He was also a member of the Committee on Financial Disclosure, 1997 to 2004; and the Federal Judicial Center, District Judge Education Advisory Committee, 1999 to 2004. He has been Chief Judge of the District of New Jersey since 1996. He is also a long-time Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law where he has taught Civil Trial Practice, Professional Responsibility, Advanced Negotiation Skills and Federal Courts.

George P. Fletcher, Professor of Law

Professor Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, where he teaches Criminal Law, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law, the Jurisprudence of War, and Biblical Jurisprudence.  He is the author of 10 books on law, history, and jurisprudence including; most recently, The Grammar of Criminal Law, (2007), and Romantics at War:  Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism, (2002).  His ground breaking book, Rethinking Criminal Law, (1978) received the Order of the Coif Award; and his 1988 book, A Crime of Self-Defense:  Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial, received the ABA Silver Gavel Award.  He is the recipient of numerous other prizes and awards, including the prestigious Storrs Lectureship, awarded by Yale Law School in 2006.  His influential Amicus brief, filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, was an important factor in the events that let the court to strike down certain aspects of the military tribunal system in the Guantanamo Prison Facility.  He has been teaching since 1965.

Sherman A. Jackson, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Law
Sherman A. Jackson is Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His areas of specialization are Islamic law and theology. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania between 1982 to 1990. Professor Jackson has broad teaching experience, having taught at Wayne State University, Indiana University, University of Texas at Austin, American University in Cairo, Egypt, and Middlebury College. He has also received numerous fellowships and awards and has served as interim president of the Shari'ah Scholars Association of North America and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the North American Islamic Trust. Jackson is the author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, as well as numerous articles on Islam. He speaks classical Arabic as well as the Egyptian, Levantine, Saudi Arabian and Sudanese dialects, and has a reading knowledge of French, German, and Persian.

Simone Monasebian, Esq.
Simone Monasebian is currently the Chief of the New York Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She was also Court TV’s Legal Analyst for the Saddam Hussein and other trials, as well as a frequent commentator on international justice in other media outlets, including CNN. Prior to her appointment with the UNODC, Ms. Monasebian served as Principal Defender of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Before joining the Special Court, Ms. Monasebian was a Trial Attorney with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Office of the Prosecutor, where she prosecuted war criminals in complex, multi-defendant cases. She was one of the prosecutors responsible for the December 2003 landmark convictions of three media executives who fanned the flames of genocide in their newspaper and radio station. That case raised important questions concerning the role of the media, which had not been addressed at the level of international criminal justice since Nuremberg. Her work in the landmark “Media Case” is prominently featured in the book “Justice On The Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption” by Dina Temple-Raston (2005). Before becoming a war crimes prosecutor, Ms. Monasebian specialized in international and national, complex, criminal litigation in a New York law firm. Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Monasebian was a journalist with a nationally syndicated radio program, and became one of the very first journalists covering rap music and hip hop culture in the early 1980s.