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R. Erik Lillquist, J.D., Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Professor Lillquist teaches in the areas of criminal procedure, evidence, contracts, and electronic commerce. His current research interests include the interaction between theories of human-decision making and the legal process, and understanding the implications of biology, medicine and psychology for law.

Professor Lillquist received his B.S. in Biology and B.A. in History from Stanford University in 1989, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1995. At Virginia, he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.

After law school, Professor Lillquist clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then joined the firm of Lankler, Siffert & Wohl, where he specialized in criminal defense. Professor Lillquist joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School in 1999, where he is the Director of the Institute of Law, Science and Technology. In the Fall of 2004, Professor Lillquist spent a semester teaching at the University of Minnesota School of Law.

David "Jake" Barnes, J.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Law

Professor Barnes obtained his A.B. Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 1972 with High Honors, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1976 and 1980, respectively, and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania College of Law in 1979. He has taught in various capacities at Syracuse University Department of Economics and College of Law, University of New Mexico Law School, and George Washington University National Law Center. Professor Barnes came to Seton Hall in 2001 from the University of Denver College of Law, where he held the Charles W. Delaney Jr. Chair in Law, and was designated a University Scholar.

Gaia Bernstein, J.D., Associate Professor of Law

Gaia Bernstein is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Professor Bernstein’s scholarship focuses on the inter-relations between technology, law and society, examining the diffusion processes of new technologies, including both medical and communications technologies. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of intellectual property, law and genetics, Internet law, information privacy law and reproductive technologies.

Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty in 2004, Professor Bernstein was a fellow at the Engelberg Center of Innovation Law & Policy and at the Information Law Institute at the New York University School of Law. Her degrees include: a J.S.D. from the New York University School of Law, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. (Intellectual Property concentration with Honors) from the Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. Professor Bernstein practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York and at S. Horowitz & Co. in Israel.

Carl H. Coleman, J.D., Director of the Health Law & Policy Program

Professor Coleman received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He also holds an A.M. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a B.S.F.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. After law school, Professor Coleman served as law clerk to Chief Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then worked as a litigation associate at Leventhal Slade & Krantz in New York City. In 1993, Professor Coleman was appointed Counsel to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a nationally recognized interdisciplinary commission with a mandate to recommend public policy on bioethical issues. He was made Executive Director of the Task Force in 1995. While working at the Task Force, Professor Coleman taught courses in health law and bioethics as an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall, Hofstra, and New York University Schools of Law. Professor Coleman currently serves as co-chair of the Committee on Ethical Issues in the Provision of Health Care of the New York State Bar Association, and he is part of the core faculty of the Certificate Program in the Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects, a postgraduate course jointly sponsored by Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University Division of Nursing.  He has also served on the New York State Attorney General’s Commission on Quality of Care at the End of Life, the Elder Law, Bioethics, and Health Law Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Institutional Review Board of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  Professor Coleman came to Seton Hall in 2000 and is the Director of the Health Law and Policy Program. 

Margaret Gilhooley, LL.B., Professor of Law

Professor Gilhooley received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University, magna cum laude, and her law degree from Columbia University, magna cum laude, where she was a member of the Law Review.  In addition to practicing law at Debevoise & Plimpton, she was an associate Chief Counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and an attorney and consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States.  She has served on the Council of Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association, the electoral board of the Food and Drug Law Journal and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the Association of American Law Schools. She has published in the areas of Administrative Law, Products Liability, and Food and Drug Law. She was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels. An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Gilhooley came to Seton Hall in 1981.

E. Judson Jennings, J.D., Professor of Law

Professor Jennings received his A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University and J.D. from Georgetown University. He was a litigator for MFY Legal Services, the Columbia University Welfare Law Program, and Legal Services for the Poor, as well as an instructor in the New York University Law School Urban Law Clinic. He has written monographs on New Jersey Evidence, New Jersey Civil Practice, New York Practice, Municipal Law, and Computer Law. He came to Seton Hall in 1976..

        

Frank Pasquale, J.D., Professor of Law

Professor Pasquale joins Seton Hall from Arnold & Porter LLP, where his work included antitrust and intellectual property litigation. He has focused his scholarship on enriching intellectual property and health law with insights from economics, philosophy, and social science. Professor Pasquale will teach Administrative Law, Intellectual Property Law, and a seminar entitled Technology, Human Rights, and Equality (focused on the law governing access to health care) this year. He looks forward to teaching in the Institute for Law, Science & Technology, and the Health Law & Policy Program.

Professor Pasquale's prior experience includes clerking for the Honorable Judge Kermit Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and serving as a fellow at the Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property in Lima, Peru. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1996 (summa cum laude) and received an M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University in 1998 (as a Marshall Scholar). During his time at Yale Law School, Professor Pasquale served as a teaching assistant for first year students and as an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and the Yale Symposium on Law and Technology before graduating with a J.D. in 2001. He also served as a student director in the clinical program’s Disabilities Clinic, focusing on advocacy in the health and benefits fields.

Brenda Saunders Hampden, J.D., Associate Professor of Law

Professor Saunders received her B.M.E. and M.M.E. from Howard University and her J.D. from Seton Hall University. She was a legal analyst and musical director for the Dance Theater of Harlem and Associate Legal Counsel to Carousel Communications, Inc. Professor Saunders directs the Summer Institute for Pre-Legal Studies, the Legal Education Opportunity Program and Seton Hall’s Academic Support Program. She teaches courses in copyright law and entertainment law. She joined the Seton Hall Law faculty in 1981.

 
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