Paula A. Franzese

Peter W. Rodino
Professor of Law
 SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL

franzepa@shu.edu
(973)642-8817
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Biography


Professor Franzese is the Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was awarded the Bryson Prize, Alpha Zeta Fellowship, Marion Churchill White Prize, Davidson-Foreman Foundation Award and Barnard Alumnae Fellowship, and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was an International Fellow, Teaching Fellow and recipient of the prestigious Rosenman Prize for excellence in public law courses. She was a litigator with Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel in New York City, where she also served as a member of the NYC Housing Court Reform Project and the Governor's Task Force on Life and Law. She clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Professor Franzese’s casebook, Property Law and the Public Interest (Lexis Nexis, 2003), (with Callies, Mandelker & Hylton), is heralded as one of the first to expansively explore the public interest dimensions of Property law. Her scholarship in the area of Property includes critical examination of common interest communities and the dilemma of privatization, the law of servitudes, exclusionary zoning, affordable housing,  adverse possession doctrine and takings law.  She joined in the submission of an amicus brief in the Kelo Case, and has written and presented on takings law reform. In 2006 she was named to the editorial board of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review, a prestigious peer-reviewed scholarly  journal.  She has published extensively on the anatomy of ethics reform of state and local government, and in the areas of commercial and contracts law, legal pedagogy and attorney professionalism. In 2007, Prof. Franzese was named a regular contributor to the NJ Voices.com blog.  She is a contributor to the new books America's Second Gilded Age? Perspectives on Law and Class Differences (NYU Press, 2006) and The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), and Reaction and Reform in New Jersey (Hall Institute, 2007). She is the Gilbert's "Legend of the Law" in Property (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and is the author and presenter of an audiotape and CD collection on Property (Thomson, 2003). 

Nationally acclaimed for her teaching, Prof. Franzese is the unprecedented eight-time recipient of the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award. Nominated for the Robert Foster Cherry Prize for Great Teaching, she has been named “Exemplary Teacher" by the American Association of Higher Education and was ranked the Top Law Professor in New Jersey by the New Jersey Law Journal. Prof. Franzese has demonstrated and deconstructed her “teaching magic” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meetings and has presented on teaching as both art and science at the Institute for Law School Teaching and at various faculty colloquia across the country.  She is past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods.  Her essays on ethics, professionalism and the promise of the craft of the law have informed judicial conferences, bar association proceedings and teacher training summits throughout the United States. Prof. Franzese teaches  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, as well as First Amendment Values, at Barnard College, Columbia University. Committed to the return of civics teaching, she teaches civics, character and leadership classes to the children of Essex County's St. Catherine's of Siena School. 

In 2006, Prof. Franzese was appointed Chair of the newly empowered State Ethics Commission by Governor Jon Corzine.   In 2005, she was appointed by Governor Corzine to serve on the gubernatorial transition team's Ethics and Policy Management Task Force. In 2004, Prof. Franzese and New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. O'Hern were appointed Special Ethics Counsel to Governor Codey. In that capacity, they submitted the most comprehensive ethics audit and reform agenda of its kind, resulting in significant ethics reform of the Executive Branch of State Government and promulgation of New Jersey's first Uniform Ethics Code.  Their work has garnered national attention, as other states take up the task of ethics reform.  Prof. Franzese has been featured on the PBS documentary, Ethics in Government, has addressed The National Conference of State Legislators, and in 2006 was featured as the Keynote Speaker at the Plenary Session of the Council on Government Ethics Laws National Meeting.  She has served on Newark Mayor Corey Booker's Ethics Reform Task Force, and has provided counsel on ethics reform to the New York City Council and to municipalities seeking to develop ethics training and compliance models.  In 1996, Prof. Franzese was appointed by Governor Whitman to serve as Commissioner of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission and, in 2000, she was elected Vice-Chair of the Commission, where she served until 2004. 

Professor Franzese was named Chair of NYC Councilman Alan J. Gerson's Task Force on Affordable Housing in 2004, yielding a successful legislative reform effort to keep tenants in affordable housing. In 2002, she was appointed to the NYC Councilman’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Commission to Rebuild Lower New York.  For the past decade she has served as President of the National Justice Resource Center, a not-for-profit philanthropic law-related education partnership, responsible for launching and sustaining hundreds of mentoring programs for inner-city youth throughout the U.S. and abroad.  She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Community Health Law Project, and was elected its Vice President in 2007.  She has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions, the New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force on Women and the Courts, the ABA Uniform Commercial Code Study Revision Group, the American Arbitration Association, the National Affordable Housing Colloquium, the Federal Bar Council and the Columbia Law School Alumni Board of Directors, and as Chair of the Barnard College Alumnae Council.  In 2002, she was appointed to the Newark Archdiocese's School Advisory Council, and elected Vice-President in 2004.

Professor Franzese has received numerous honors and awards. In 2008 she has been named Vice-Chair of the Legal Education Section of the American Bar Association. She has received the 2008 Educator of the Year Award from the NJ Association of Women in Business and was honored as 2008's Woman of the Year by Partners for Women in Justice. She is the 2006 recipient of the Medal of Honor, presented by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.  In 2006, she was named recipient of the Alain Daniels Leadership Award by the Center for Civic Responsibility.  In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  In 2004, she was named to the Peter W. Rodino Chair of Law. She is the recipient of the St. Thomas More Medal of Honor. She has received the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyer of the Year Award and the Congressional Peter W. Rodino Outstanding Achievement Award and has been named YWCA "Woman of Influence."
 

Publications
 

Books and Cassette Series

Kind Words Conquer (forthcoming, 2008).

Contributor, (with Justice Daniel J. O'Hern), Reaction and Reform in New Jersey (Hall Institute, 2007).

Contributor, The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law As a Healing Profession (Marjorie Silver, ed.) (Carolina Academic Press, 2006)
                                                                                                                              Contributing author (with David Callies), Residential Privilege: The Advent of the Guarded Subdivision, to appear in America’s Second Gilded Age? Perspectives on Law and Class Differences, (NYU Press, 2005, Paul Carrington & Trina Jones, eds.).

Special Ethics Counsel, Report to the Governor of the State of New Jersey: Ethics Reform Recommendations for the Executive Branch of New Jersey Government (March 14, 2005) (available from the Office of the Governor and on-line at http://www.state.nj.us/governor)

Contributor, Steven Friedland & Gerald Hess, Teaching the Law School Curriculum (2004)

Franzese, Legends of the Law on Property (CD & cassette series) (Thomson, 2003).

Casebook, Property Law and the Public Interest (Second Edition, Lexis 2003) (with Mandelker, Callies & Hylton)

Teachers' Manual, Property Law and the Public Interest (Lexis, 2003) (with Mandelker, Callies & Hylton)

Contributor, The Law According to Skyboxes (Paul Carrington, ed.) (2005)

Franzese on Real Property, Law School Legends in the Law Series (six-volume audio series) (Harcourt Brace, 1996).

Throw Your Fears Out the Window: A Book of Wisdom, Guidance and Inspiration for Law Students and Lawyers, (Donnelley, 1997).

Co-author, New Jersey Forms of Jury Instruction (Matthew Bender, 200_).

Contributing Author, Martindale-Hubbell Law Series (drafted short section on Real Property) (1998).
 

Law Review Articles

Trust and Community: The Common Interest Community as Metaphor and Paradox, 72 Univ. of Missouri L. Rev. 1110 (2007).

The Twin Rivers Case: Of Homeowners Associations, Free Speech Rights and Privatized Mini-Governments (with Steven Siegel), Rutgers J. Law & Social Policy (2007).

Restoring the Public Trust: An Agenda for Ethics Reform of State Government and a Proposed Model for New Jersey, 57 Rutgers L. Rev.  1175(2005)

Privatization and Its Discontents: Common Interest Communities and the Rise of Government for the "Nice." 37 The Urban Lawyer 335 (2005)

Solutions to the Crisis in Affordable Housing: A Proposed Model for New York City, Rutgers J. Law & Urban Policy (with Maria Anderson) , 3 Rutgers J. of Law & Urban Policy 84 (2005)

Building Community in Common Interest Communities: The Promise of the Restatement (Third) of Servitudes, 38 Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 17 (Spring, 2003).

Ramapo Looking Forward: Gated Communities: Covenants and Concerns (with David Callies & Heidi Kuth), 35 Urban Lawyer 177 (2003).

Does It Take A Village?, Privatization, Patterns of Restrictiveness and the Demise of Community, 47 Villanova L. Rev. 553 (2002).

Common Interest Communities: Standards of Review and Review of Standards, 3 Washington Univ. J. Law & Public Policy 265 (2000).

Mother Teresa's Legacy to Lawyers (with C.M.A. McCauliff), 28 Seton Hall L. Rev. 101 (1998).

The Betrayed Profession, (Book Review of Sol Linowitz's work) 25 Seton Hall L. Rev. 488 (1994).

Secured Financing's Uneasy Place in Bankruptcy: Claims for Interest in Chapter 11, 19 Hofstra L. Rev. 1 (1991).

"Out of Touch": The Diminished Viability of the Touch and Concern Requirement in the Law of Servitudes, 21 Seton Hall L. Rev. 435 (1991).

Book Review, Duncan & Lyons, The Law and Practice of Secured Transactions, Columbia Business L. Rev. 537 (1989).

"Georgia on My Mind" - Reflections on O'Keeffe v. Snyder, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 30 (1988).

Mount Laurel III: The New Jersey Supreme Court's Judicious Retreat, 18 Seton Hall L. Rev. 30 (1988).


Symposia

Homeowners' Associations: Problems and Solutions, Rutgers J. Law & Policy, (forthcoming, 2007).

The Presidency in Crisis: A Conversation with Congressman Rodino, 30 Seton Hall L. Rev. 201 (1999).

Housing and Hope: The Crisis in Homelessness, Discrimination in Housing Lending and An Agenda for Landlord/Tenant Reform, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1461 (1999).

Censorship of Cable Television's Leased and Public Access Channels, 6 Fordham Intell. Prop., Media & Ent. L.J. 465 (1996).

Commercial Litigation: Federal and State Update: Federal Courts and Jury Trials (NYSBA, 1996).

First Amendment and the Media: Regulating Interactive Communications on the Information Superhighway, 5 Fordham Intell. Prop., Media & Ent. L.J. 279 (1995).

Mount Laurel and the Fair Housing Act: Success or Failure?, 19 Fordham Urban L.J. 59 (1991).


Shorter Articles & Essays

The Sub-Prime Mortgage Fallout, op-ed, The Record, April 1, 2008.

Legislature in Need of Stronger Ethics Watchdog, op-ed, Asbury Park Press, April 1, 2008.
                                                                                                                                   Teaching Civic Virtue, Not Cynicism, op-ed, The Newark Star Ledger,         March 27, 2008.

Commentary: Committee for a Better Twin Rivers v. Twin Rivers Homeowners' Ass'n, 192 N.J. 344 (N.J. 2007)
 Committee for a Better Twin Rivers v. Twin Rivers Homeowners' Ass'n

The Good Lawyer: Finding Meaning Through Service, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (Dec. 2007).

Ethics Reform is Here, Just in Too Few Places, Op-ed, Newark Star Ledger (Sept. 25, 2007).

A Cost to Privatizing Communities, Op-ed, The Newark Star Ledger, Aug. 24, 2007 (with Steven S. Siegel, Esq.)

Regular Contributor to NJ Voices.com (the Newark Star Ledger blog).

We Must Teach Foundations of Civility, Phil. Inquirer, Apr. 2, 2007.

A Truth in Campaigning Law for New Jersey, (with Justice Daniel J. O'Hern), NJ Law Journal, (Dec. 18, 2006).

Can We Restore Public Trust?, New Jersey Municipalities Magazine (Nov. 2006).

Kind Words Conquer: Reclaiming the Promise of Professionalism, NJ State Bar Foundation, Oct. 13, 20, 2006.

Making the Ethics Laws Uniform, (with Justice Daniel J. O'Hern), The Newark Star Ledger (June 24, 2006).

Kelo One Year Later, (with Prof. Marc Poirier), The Newark Star Ledger (June 24, 2006).

New Jersey's Chance for Eminent Domain Reform, (with Marc Poirier), The Newark Star Ledger, June 21, 2006.

We Can Get Back to Kansas: Making Real the Promise of Ethics Reform, The Newark Star Ledger 13 (April 17, 2006).

Tribute In Memory of Congressman Peter W. Rodino, Jr., 1909-2005, Keep That good Heart: The Life and Legacy of Congressman Peter W. Rodino, Jr.  Seton Hall L. Rev. 36 (2006).

Homeowner Boards Cannot Exclude Democracy, The Newark Star Ledger, February 20, 2006.

Jon Corzine's Chance to Do Right: Advancing the Cause of Ethics Reform, The Newark Star Ledger, Nov. 10, 2005.

"Keep that Good Heart" - The Life and Legacy of Cong. Peter W. Rodino, The Newark Star Ledger, May 17, 2005.

A Top Ten List for Ethics Reform, The New Jersey Law Journal, March 28, 2005.

The Cornerstone of Good Government, The New Jersey Lawyer, March 28, 2005.

A Government Worthy of Trust, The Newark Star Ledger, March 15, 2005.

Co-author, Amicus Brief in Kelo v. City of New London, submitted to U.S. Supreme Court (2005).

Teaching Commercial Law: A Demonstration and Deconstruction (appears in Friedland & Hess, Teaching the Law School Curriculum (2004).

The Learned Justice Handler: Fond Reflections of a Former Clerk, 30 Seton Hall L. Rev. 734 (2000).

To Be the Change: Finding Higher Ground in the Law, 50 Maine L. Rev. 11 (1998).

E Pluribus Unum: From Many One, 24 Seton Hall L. Rev. 101 (1996).

The Community of Law Teachers and Scholars Expands: Guideposts for New Faculty, 22 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1375 (1992).

The Mentor Program: Building Bridges to the Community, 22 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1366 (1992).

Reclaiming Our Noble Profession, 22 Seton Hall L. Rev. 307 (1992).

From Tragedy, Hope: The Good Lawyer and the Pursuit of the Public Interest, 32 Seton Hall L. Rev. 451 (2002).

It's Not What We Take With Us That Counts; It's What We Leave Behind, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (June, 2000).

The Law and More: Ten Guideposts for Success, New Jersey Lawyer (Jan. 11, 1999).

Finding Higher Ground in the Law, ABA The Young Lawyer (Nov. 1997).

Reclaiming Our Noble Profession, New Jersey Law Journal (Jan. 1993).


Keynote Addresses and Presentations

Property Caselaw Review at American Bar Association Annual Meeting,         May 2, 2008, Washington D.C.

Leading with Conscience at Annual Meeting, Public Purchasing Personnel,    May 1, 2008, Atlantic City, N.J.

Beyond Ethics: The Coexistence of Zealousness, Professionalism and Civility, at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Annual Meeting, April 6, 2008, Washington D.C.

The Ethical Imperative in an Age of Dysfunction, American Gift Planning Council, March 24, 2008, Princeton, NJ

Ethics and Zealous Advocacy, American Bankruptcy Institute Plenary Session, April 5-6, 2008, Washington, D.C.

Leading with Conscience, Governor's Conference on Women in Government, March 5, 2008, Atlantic City, NJ

Ethics, E-mail, the Web and the Blogosphere: Rules and Values for Practice in Cyberspace. American Bankruptcy Institute's Annual Meeting, Dec. 7-9, 2007, Rancho Mirage, California.

New Jersey Law Journal's Annual Review of New Jersey Civil Caselaw, Dec. 2007-Feb. 2008.

The Gender Divide: Women and the Law, Bergen County Women Lawyers Assn., Nov. 7, 2007, East Rutherford, NJ

Women in Government, Plenary Address, League of Municipalities Annual Convention, Nov. 15, 2007, Atlantic City, NJ

Law as a Healing Profession, Touro Law School, Nov. 4-5, 2007, Central Islip, NY.

The Good Lawyer: Choosing to Believe in the Promise of Our Craft, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Women's Trial Lawyer Caucus, Oct. 19, 2007, Meadowlands, NJ.

Kind Words Conquer, College Club of New Jersey, Oct. 2, 2007, Ridgewood, NJ.

Clarence Darrow: Crimes, Causes and the Courtroom, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, NJ, Aug. 28, 2007.

Ethics in Government, Documentary, NJN, Aug. 2007.

The Anatomy of Ethics Reform, National Conference of State Legislators, Boston, MA., Aug. 9, 2007.

Ethics and Good Government, Plenary Session, National Council of State Legislatures on Ethics and Good Good Government, August 8, 2007, Boston, MA.

Latest Developments on Ethics Laws, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, July 11-12, 2007, Trenton, NJ.

The Anatomy of Ethics Reform, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, July 11, 2007, Trenton, NJ

Privatizations and its Discontents: Homeowners Associations as Metaphor and Paradox, Pratt Foundation Symposium on Homeowners' Associations: Problems and Solutions, May 21, 2007, Trenton, NJ.

Confronting Ethical Issues, Women's Political Caucus of New Jersey, Bridgewater, NJ, April 28th, 2007.

Trust and Community: The Common Interest Community as Metaphor and Paradox, delivered at Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dale Whiteman, at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, April 14th, 2007.

Ethics and Eminent Domain, the Lorman Institute Convocation, April 17th, New Brunswick, NJ.

First Amendment Values in these "Perilous Times," Barnard College Colloquium Series, March 29th, 2007, NY.

The Quiet Majority: The Real Deal on Small Firm Practice.  Association of the Bar of the City of New York, March 26, 2007.

Federal Bar Council and Judicial College on Attorney Professionalism: Raising the Bar, Federal Bar Council and Judicial College, West Orange, NJ, March 22, 2007.

To Be Crusaders for Justice and Champions of the Underdog, keynote delivered to Office of the Attorney General, Division of Civil Rights, New Brunswick, NJ, March 16, 2007.

Partnering for Good Government: Can We Restore the Public Trust Through Ethics Reform?, the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers University Ethics Convocation, March 31, 2006, Newark, NJ.

The Anatomy of Ethics Reform, Keynote Address at the Plenary Session of the Council on Government Ethics and Laws Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 2006.

Making Real the Promise of Ethics Reform, at the League of Municipalities Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, Nov. 16, 2006.

Networking in Pursuit of the Common Good, featured speaker at the Annual National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys' meeting, Oct. 24, 2006, New York City.

"Privatization and Its Discontents: The rise (and Fall?) of Common Interest Communities," presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, Oct. 21, 2006, Denver, CO

2006 Forum on the Future of New Jersey, featured speaker presented by Leadership New Jersey, Oct. 4th, 2006, Trenton, NJ.

The New Mandate: Affordable Housing That Is Also Accessible, NJ State Bar Foundation, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, April 6th, 2006, New Brunswick, N.J.

Reflections on the U.S. Supreme Court, Columbia University Alumni Foundation, Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., April 5, 2006.

Partnering for Good Government: Can We Restore the Public Trust Through Ethics Reform?  The Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers University Ethics Convocation, March 31, 2006, Newark, N.J.

The Kelo Case in Perspective, Eminent Domain Law and Practice, The Lorman Institute, New Brunswick, N.J., March 28, 2006.

The Responsibility of the Press in "Perilous Times," The Montclair Adult School, Montclair, N.J., March 22, 2006.

The New Jersey Law Journal Annual Review of New Jersey Civil Case Law, presented with Profs. Riccio and McLaughlin, Newark, Morristown, Cherry Hill, NJ, January-February, 2006.

The Craft of Teaching: Exploring the Consequences of our Pedagogical Choices, Panel Moderator, AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Teaching Methods, Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2005.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Transition, Keynote Address delivered to the Columbia University Alumni Foundation of New Jersey, West Orange, NJ, Dec. 6, 2005.

The Law as a Healing Profession, Keynote Address delivered to the Cornelian Law Foundation, Pompton Plains, N.J., Oct. 8, 2005.

Ethics Reform in New Jersey, panel presentation at Monmouth University, April 19, 2005 (with Justice Daniel O'Hern, Sen. Ellen Karcher and Sen. Joseph Kryllos)

Privatization and Its Discontents, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Sections on Property & State & Local Government, Jan. 7, 2005 (San Francisco, CA.)

Restoring Public Trust: An Agenda for Reform of State and Local Governments. Woodrow Wilson School of government, American Society for Public Administration, March 23, 2005.

The Most Noble Profession: Teaching as an Instrument for the Greater Social Good, Keynote Address New Jersey State Bar Foundation, May 1, 2006 (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Teaching Common Interest Communities, Association of American Law Schools Conference on Property Law, June 15-18, 2004 (Portland, Oregon)

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, National Law-Related Education Partnership, August 7, 2003, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)

The First Amendment in Context, National Institute of Civic Education, Rutgers University Summer Institute, July 31, 2003 (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Women and the Law, Bergen County Women Lawyers, Summit, April 11, 2003.

Preventing Classroom Incivilities, Section on Teaching Methods Panel, Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 4, 2003 (Washington, D.C.)

The Promise of Our Craft, Judicial College Retreat,, Nov. 27 - 28, 2002 (Somerset County, N.J.)

First Amendment Values, National Law-Related Education Partnership, August 8, 2002, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)

A Mother's Day Reflection, Hoboken Women's Alliance, May 10, 2002.

Demonstrating and Deconstructing Our Teaching: Teaching as Both Art and Science, Institute for Law School Teaching, June 28, 2002 (Concord, N.H.)

Finding Higher Ground in the Law, Mid-Atlantic Conference of Court Administrators, October 14, 2001 (Ocean City, M.D.)

Celebrating the Profession: Lawyers as Heroes, New Jersey State Bar Association Council on Professionalism, October 5, 2001 (New Brunswick, N.J.)

A Teaching Magic, Section on Teaching Methods Panel, Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 5, 2001 (San Francisco, CA)

The Emerged and Emerging Article 9, Marino Institute of Continuing Legal Education, March 8, 2000 (New York, N.Y.)

First Amendment Jurisprudence in Perspective, National Institute for Civic Education, Boston University, July 12, 2000.

The Role of Judges in Facilitating Professionalism, New Jersey State Judiciary Judicial College, November 22, 1999 (Teaneck, N.J.)

Twentieth Century Politics: Where We've Been, Where We Are, Where We're Headed, with the Hon. Peter Rodino, Seton Hall Law School, November 16, 1999 (Newark, N.J.)

Lessons Learned from A Civil Action, with Jan Schlictmann, Esq., Seton Hall Law School, November 11, 1999 (Newark, N.J.)

The Multidisciplinary Law Practice, New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Trustees' Conference, October 29, 1999 (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Theory, Doctrine and Rhetoric in the Classroom, Seton Hall Law School Faculty Development Workshop, October 27, 1999 (Newark, N.J.)

The Law School Classroom in the 21st Century, Law Prevue, October 16, 1999 (Boston, M.A.)

Attorney Professionalism: Challenges and Opportunities, The Hudson County Inns of Court, September 13, 1999 (Jersey City, N.J.)

The Emerging Bill of Rights, Harvard University Graduate School of Education We the People Conference, July 9, 1999 (Cambridge, M.A.)

Law-Related Education for the 21st Century, New Jersey State Bar Association Law-Related Education Convocation, May 6, 1999 (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Consumer Debtors and the Bankruptcy Code: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?, William H. Gindin Bankruptcy Law Conference, April 30, 1998 (East Brunswick, N.J.)

The Craft of the Law, Fordham Law School Legal Education Opportunity Program, July, 1998 (New York, N.Y.)

Healing Constituencies in Crisis, West Orange Town Meeting, March, 1998 (West Orange, N.J.)

Future Public Servants, St. Vincent's Academy Commencement Address, May, 1998 (Newark, N.J.)

Work and Family, Essex County Women Lawyers, Nov. 20, 1997 (Newark, N.J.)

From Many, One, Ocean County Bar Association Law Day, May 1, 1996 (Toms River, N.J.)

Celebrating Our Differences, Finding Strength in Diversity, Center for Italian and Italian-American Culture Gala, March, 1995 (West Orange, N.J.)

The Challenge for New Lawyers, New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division, May, 1992 (Atlantic City, N.J.)

The Women's Movement: Challenges and Opportunities, delivered at Fiftieth Anniversary Convocation of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, May 1, 1989 (Cherry Hill, N.J.)

Mount Laurel and the Fair Housing Act, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March, 1988 (Fairfield, N.J.)

Mentors, Presented at National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law Conference, June 10, 1988 (Seattle, W.A.)