Professor Bernard K. Freamon is the on-site Director of the Zanzibar Winter 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 Zanzibar@shu.edu.

A brief summary of his resume, together with a listing of the names of the other program faculty follows.
 

Bernard K. Freamon, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
J.D., Rutgers University School of Law (Newark)
LL.M., Columbia University School of Law
J.S.D., Columbia University School of Law

Professor Freamon has been a member of the Seton Hall faculty since 1979. He is the founding director of the law school’s Center for Social Justice and he spent two years on the law faculty of the University of Nairobi in Kenya and a sabbatical semester as a special student at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He is the director of the law school’s Program for the Study of Law in the Middle East which operates the Cairo Summer Program, the first and only ABA-approved study abroad program in the Arab world. He has lectured, consulted, and published in the areas of Islamic Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, International Law and Professional Ethics. His J.S.D. dissertation, soon to be published, is concerned with conceptions of equality in Islamic Law and their relation to the problem of slavery. He is currently pursuing a major research project on the abolition of slavery in the Islamic world.

Simone Monasebian, Esq., Chief, NY Office of UN Office on Drugs and Crime
J.D., Syracuse University School of Law

Prior to her appointment with UNODC, Professor Monasebian served as Principal Defender of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and before that she was a trial attorney with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Office of the Prosecutor. In that capacity she lived in Arusha, Tanzania for four years and 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 during the war in Rwanda Her work on that case is 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. She has served as Court TV’s legal analyst for the Saddam Hussein and other trials, and is a frequent commentator on international justice for various media outlets. Professor Monasebian’s office is the principal UN organ responsible for coordination of UN efforts directed at eliminating human trafficking and she travels the world  promoting international justice and the rule of law.