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Professor Maldonado teaches Torts,
Estates and Trusts, Gender and the Law,
Race, Ethnicity and the Law, and several
family law courses. Prior to joining the
Seton Hall Law School faculty in 2001,
she was a litigation associate with
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler,
LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown &
Wood in New York. She was also a law
clerk for the Honorable Joseph A.
Greenaway, Jr., United States District
Court for the District of New Jersey.
She received her B.A. from Columbia
College and her J.D. from Columbia Law
School, where she was a Harlan Fiske
Stone Scholar and the recipient of a
Human Rights Fellowship. She also served
as the managing editor of the
Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law.
Professor Maldonado’s scholarship
focuses on the law’s regulation of
children’s relationships with adults who
play a parental role. To that end, her
work explores how the law can encourage
nonresident fathers to maintain and
nurture relationships with their
children. Her work also examines the
role of race in family law. She recently
published an article exploring the
reasons some Americans prefer to adopt
children of color from other countries
over African-American children. Her most
recent project compares transracial
adoptions of African-American children
with those of Native-American children.
Professor Maldonado served on the New
Jersey Commission on Higher Education
from 2004-2005 and on the Board of the
Dominican Bar Association from
1998-2002. She was named a Dean’s
Scholar at Seton Hall in 2006.
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