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December 21, 2006 Professors Baher Azmy, Jenny-Brooke Condon, Meetali Jain and Scott Michelman of the Center for Social Justice author brief arguing that Torture is Unconstitutional in all Circumstances
   
December 21, 2006 Professors Baher Azmy and Scott Michelman, and third-years David Gardner and Pinar Ozgu of the Center for Social Justice file a suit seeking production of Government records on "obviously innocent" Guantánamo detainee
   
December 20, 2006 Professor John V. Jacobi takes leave to join Corzine Administration as Senior Associate Counsel to the Governor
   
December 12, 2006 Professors Shavar Jeffries and Scott Michelman, and third-years Mireille Bahri, Jason Haller, Greg Ricciardi and Kyle Rosenkrans of the Center for Social Justice file a lawsuit seeking to declare charter school funding gap unconstitutional
   
December 12, 2006 Professors Gaia Bernstein & Frank Pasquale are hosting an on-line symposium, Toward a General Theory of Law and Technology
   
December 11, 2006 Professor Carl Coleman's casebook, The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects, favorably reviewed by IRB: Ethics and Human Research
 

 

December 11, 2006 Professor Robert Martin  will address the Harrisburg Area Bar Association on Lawyers as Jurors, on Dec. 12th
   
December 10, 2006 Professor Baher Azmy will keynote on The Legalization of Torture: From Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib, at the IRCT International Symposium on Torture, in Berlin on Dec. 10th
   
December 5, 2006 Professors Paula Franszese will deliver the Keynote Address on The Anatomy of Ethics Reform at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Government Ethics and Laws in New Orleans on Dec. 5th
   
December 4, 2006 Seton Hall Law alumnus Noel Hillman '85 sworn in as United States District Judge
   
November 30, 2006 Professor Jon Romberg and third-years Adam Wells and Kathryn Diehm of the Center for Social Justice Win Second Circuit Appeal for Prisoner Blinded by Denial of Medical Treatment
   
November 30, 2006

Professors Shavar Jeffries and Scott Michelman, and third-years Holly Blanchard and William Tellado of the Center for Social Justice File Suit to Compel Newark Public Schools to Comply with the No Child Left Behind Act

   
November 29, 2006 Professors Paula Franzese and Denis McLaughlin once again this year will be conducting the New Jersey Law Journal's Annual Review of New Jersey Civil Case Law. The sessions will cover over 100 Supreme and Appellate Court opinions decided over the past year.
   
November 21, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale's article, Rankings, Reductionism, and Responsibility, featured in the third edition of Berman's Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age
   
November 21, 2006 Dean Kathleen Boozang will present Medical Futility: Law, Ethics, and Humaneness at New Jersey Medical School Hospital on Nov. 21st
   
November 21, 2006 Third-years Kristin Muir and Paul Werner honored as Regional Semifinalists at the National Moot Court Competition
   
November 17, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale will present Fairness and Accountability in the Law of Search to Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society on Nov. 17th
   
November 16, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale will present Copyright in an Era of Information Overload to the Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar at Berkeley on Nov. 16th
   
November 16, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese will present Making Real the Promise of Ethics Reform at the League of Municipalities Annual Meeting in Atlantic City on Nov. 16th
   
November 15, 2006 Professor Bernard Freamon will present Comparative Abolition(s) at Columbia Law School’s Colloquium on Comparative Law on Nov.15th
   
November 15, 2006 Professor Elizabeth Defeis will present Self Deteremination and Frozen Conflicts at the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations on Nov. 15th
   
November 14, 2006 Professor Michael Zimmer will be presenting Drawing the Inference of Discrimination at a Faculty Workshop at Marquette Law School on Nov. 14th
   
November 10, 2006 Professor Edward Hartnett will be speaking about Catholic Judges and Cooperation in Sin at a conference at the University of St. Thomas on Catholicism and the Court: The Relevance of Faith Traditions to Jurisprudence on Nov. 10th
   
November 2006 Professor Kwasi Prempeh is appointed a member of the State Department's Advisory Commission on the African Judiciary.
   
November 2006 Third-years Mallory Tosch, Greg Kohn & Calvin Souder earn Quaterfinalist and Third Best Brief awards at Pepperdine's Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition.
   
November 10, 2006 Professor Marc Poirier will speak on Piecemeal and Wholesale Approaches towards Same Sex Marriage: The New Jersey Experience at a symposium at Rutgers Newark Law School on Nov. 10th
   
November 9, 2006 Professor Kathleen Boozang will be a plenary speaker on Provider Liability at the America Health Lawyers Assn's annual Fundamentals of Health Law Conference on Nov. 9th in Chicago.
   
November 9, 2006 Professor Michael Zimmer will present Drawing the Inference of Discrimination at a Faculty Workshop at Loyola-Chicago School of Law on Nov. 9th
   
November 9, 2006 Professor Carl Coleman will present Critical Issues in End-of-Life Legislation to the Health Committee of the Italian Senate in Rome on Nov. 9th
   
November 2006 Students Rebecca Szelc & Jason Weber won this year's Interscholastic Client Counseling Competition at Seton Hall and will represent the school in the regional competition at Pace Law School
   
November 7, 2006 Professor Michael Risinger will speak on Patrolling the Boundary between Science and Non-Science at Expertise in the Courtroom at Villanova on Nov. 7th.
   
November 6, 2006 Professor Kwasi Prempeh will be presenting Progress in African Democratization and Constitutionalism at the International Advisory Committee of the Community of Democracies in Berlin on Nov. 6th.
   
November 1, 2006 Professor Bernard Freamon will be a panelist on The Origins and Elements of Sunni and Shi'a Jurisprudence at the New York City Bar Association on Nov. 6th.
   
November 1, 2006 Professor Gaia Bernstein's article, When New Technologies Are Still New: Windows of Opportunity for Privacy Protection was published in 51 Vill. L. Rev. 921 (2006)
   
November 1, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese will present The Anatomy of Ethics Reform for County and Local Government at Essex County College on Nov. 1st
   
October 28, 2006 Professor Elizabeth Defeis will present on Human Rights and the European Union at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on Oct. 28th
   
October 28, 2006 Professor Kristen Boon will be a panelist on The Responsibility of International Organizations: Does One Size Fit All? at the Canadian Council on International Law Conference in Ottawa on Oct. 28th
   
October 26, 2006 Professor Howard Erichson will speak on the 2006 New Jersey Court Rules for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education  on Oct. 26th
   
October 24, 2006 Students Matthew Tuttle and Greg Kohn win First and Second Prizes in ASCAP's 2006 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition
   
October 24, 2006 Professor Michael Risinger will address the Evidence Law Colloquium on Convicting the Innocent: An Empirically Justified Wrongful Conviction Rate at Brooklyn Law School
   
October 24, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese will address Networking in Pursuit of the Common Good at the Annual National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys' Meeting in New York
   
October 20, 2006

Professor Frank Pasquale has joined Concurring Opinions as a permanent blogger.

   
October 20, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese will present Privatization and Its Discontents: The Rise (and Fall?) of Common Interest Communities at the American Bar Association's Mid-Year Meeting in Denver
   
October 18, 2006 Professor Kathleen Boozang will inaugurate the Seton Hall and Knights of Malta Catholic Perspective Series, speaking on End of Life Care at Jubilee Hall on the South Orange campus.
   
October 17, 2006 Professor Thomas Healy will be on a panel Whose Right Is It to Tell the Story? at the Columbia Journalism School
   
October 17, 2006 Professor Howard Erichson is co-editor of the Mass Tort Litigation Blog
   
October 7, 2006 Professor Bernard Freamon will present Women's Rights and the Slavery under Islamic Law at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
   
October 7, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale will present on Primarily Position-Enhancing Intellectual Property at the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Pittsburgh Law School
   
October 6, 2006 Professor Gaia Bernstein will present In the Shadow of Innovation at the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Pittsburgh Law School
   
October 5, 2006 Professor Bernard K. Feamon will present The Jihadist Legal Hermeneutic: Truth or Falsehood? at Vanderbilt Law School
   
October 4, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese, will be featured at Leadership New Jersey's 2006 Forum on the Future of New Jersey in Trenton
   
October, 2006 Professor Sarah Waldeck & Erik Lillquist will present Cash, Credit or Cell Phone? How to Influence Public Preferences about Payment Systems for the Canadian Law and Economic Association at the University of Toronto
   
October, 2006 Dean Patrick Hobbs praises the nomination of Justice James Zazzali, former Seton Hall adjunct professor, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
   
September 25, 2006 Seton Hall Guantánamo Study cited during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
   
September 25, 2006 Professor Thomas Healy on Splitting the Ninth Circuit, Findlaw, Sept. 25th
   
September 16, 2006 Dean Kathleen Boozang will serve on a select panel of reviewers at the Health Scholars Workshop sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, at St. Louis School of Law
   
September 14, 2006 Professor Stephen Lubben will present The Microeconomics of Chapter 11 at the 23rd Annual European Association of Law And Economics Conference, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid
   
September 14, 2006 Professor Marina Lao will participate in a Roundtable on General Approaches to Defining Abusive/Monopolistic Practices at Fordham's 33rd Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy
   
September 8, 2006 Professor Solangel Maldonado led a workshop entitled Strategies to Reduce Disproportionality in the Foster Care System at The Disproportionate Number of Minority Youth in the Family and Criminal Court Systems Conference at the New York State Judicial Institute
   
September 8, 2006 Professor Marc Poirier to speak on New Jersey's Public Trust Doctrine Limits Development and the Right of Exclusion in the Public Interest at Public and Private Interest in Coastal Marshes at the University of South Carolina
   
September 1, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale will present The Cost of Conscience at the American Political Science Association Conference
   
September, 2006 Professor Baher Azmy for the Center for Social Justice filed a federal suit challenging the TSA's terminating of a renowned airline security expert because of his nationality and religion
   
September, 2006 SHLS students Angela Kopolovich and Natalie Flores draft amicus brief for successful cert. petition in Ninth Circuit case involving fair criminal trials.
   
September, 2006 Professor Sarah Waldeck's article, An Appeal to Charity: Using Philanthropy to Revitalize the Estate Tax, reprinted in the August Monthly Digest of Tax Articles
   
September, 2006 Professor Tracy Kaye's article Tax Discrimination: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and E.U. Approaches featured on Taxprof Blog
   
September, 2006 Professor Shavar Jeffries wins Jones v. Brown in the Third Circuit, vindicating 1st Amendment rights of inmates
   
September, 2006 Professor Rachel Godsil, on PropertyProf Blog - Katrina
   
September, 2006 Professor Baher Azmy wins the release of Murat Kurnaz from Guantánamo
   
August 31, 2006 Professor Mark Denbeaux and his team of Seton Hall students release their 4th Report, June 10th Suicides at Guantánamo
   
August 18, 2006 LD3 Molly Marmion, who worked this summer in the Domestic Violence Clinical Center, was featured in The Star Ledger story, Burning Questions
   
August 9, 2006 Professor Michelle Adams, Toward a Unified Standard for Evaluating the Constitutionality of Racial Preferences at the SHLS Brown Bag  on August 9th
   
August 2, 2006 Professor Howard Erichson is Co-Reporter of The American College of Trial Lawyers Mass Tort Litigation Manual (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2006).
   
August 2, 2006 Professor Gaia Bernstein to present on In the Shadow of Innovation at the SHLS Brown Bag 
   
August, 2006 Professor Stephen Lubben, Delaware's Duty of Care, 31 Del. J.Corp. L. 589 (2006) (co-authored with Alana Darnell, '04)
   
August, 2006 Professor Charles A. Sullivan is guest blogging on Concurring Opinions
   
August, 2006 Professor Rachel Godsil on PropertyProf Blog - Paradoxes of Pierson v. Post 
   
August, 2006 Professor Thomas Healy reviews Rosen's The Most Democractic Branch on Findlaw
   
July 28, 2006 Professor Jake Barnes will present A New Economics of Trademarks at the Workshop on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Information Technology at the University of Manchester
   
July 27, 2006 Professor Ronald J. Riccio wins federal court judgment in free speech case, Borden v. East Brunswick
   
July 26, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale to present on Primarily-Position-Enhancing Information at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
July 26, 2006 Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh published Marbury in Africa: Judicial Review and the Challenge of Constitutionalism in Contemporary Africa, 80 Tul. L. Rev.  1239 (2006)
   
July 26, 2006 Professor Howard Erichson authored Comments on a Class Action Rule for Mississippi, 24 Miss. Coll. L. Rev.  309 (2005)
   
July 26, 2006 Professor Carl Coleman blogs on End-of-Life Decision-Making and the Politics of the Fetus  on the Bioethics Forum 
   
July 19, 2006 Professor Kwasi Prempeh to present on Why Equal Protection No Longer Protects: Equality Doctrine and the Perils of Viewing Race as a Southern at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
July 19, 2006 Professor Kwasi Prempeh to present on Beyond "Just Us": Mainstreaming Racial Justice at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
July 18, 2006 Professor Tracy Kaye will be a panelist on Restricting the Legislative Power to Tax at the International Academy of Comparative Law in Utrecht
   
July 13, 2006 Professor Denis F. McLaughlin will teach in the National Institute of Trial Advocacy's Deposition Practice Training
   
July 12, 2006 Professor Rachel Godsil to present on Kelo, Katrina, and Community: The Politics of Property Rights at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
July 6, 2006 Professor Andrea McDowell will present on Pierson v. Post: Interrogating the Case Method at the Annual Law and Society Conference, in Baltimore on July 7th
   
July 3, 2006 Professor Rachel Godsil will participate in a panel on Awakening from the Dream: Reconsidering Courts, Congress and Protection of Rights of Belonging at the Annual Law and Society Conference, in Baltimore on July 8th
   
July 3, 2006 Professor Gaia Bernstein & Frank Pasquale will join a panel Toward a General Theory for Law and Technology at the Annual Law and Society Conference, in Baltimore on July 8th
   
July, 2006 Professor John Wefing has published Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes and His Contributions to the Judiciary of New Jersey, 36 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1257 (2006)
   
July, 2006 Professor Lori Nessel has published Forced to Choose: Torture, Family Reunification, and United States Immigration Policy, 78 Temple L. Rev. 897 (2005)
   
July, 2006 Professor Howard Erichson authored Mississippi Class Actions and the Inevitability of Mass Aggregate Litigation, 24 Miss. Coll. L. Rev. 285 (2005)
   
July, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale has published Rankings, Reductionism, and Responsibility, 54 Clev. St. L. Rev. 115 (2006)
   
July, 2006 Professor Rachel Godsil's forthcoming Race Nuisance article blogged on PropertyProf
   
July, 2006 Professor Mark Denbeaux and his team of Seton Hall Law students release their 3rd Guantánamo Report on Asymmetrical Warfare
   
July, 2006 Professor Kip Cornwell named Associate Dean
   
June 30, 2006 Professor Elizabeth Defeis will present on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peace Keepers at the Women's Rights in the International Arena Conference at Nice Law School, France on July 10th.
   
June 28, 2006 Professor Thomas Healy will present on Brandenburg in a Time of Terror at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
June 26, 2006 Professor Mark Alexander's article Let Them Do Their Jobs: The Compelling Government Interest in Protecting the Time of Candidates and Elected Officials, 37 Loyola U. Chi. L. J. 669 (2006), was cited in Justice Stevens' dissent in Randall v. Sorrell, 2006 U.S. Lexis 5161 (2006).
   
June 26, 2006 Professor Lori Nessel will be a panelist on the First Annual Symposium on Immigration Policy for the International Institute of NJ on June 28th
   
June 26, 2006 Professor Thomas Healy will present on Self-censorship and Freedom of Speech at the SHLS Brown Bag on June 28th
   
June 26, 2006 Professor Paula Franzese contributed an essay to Law and Class in America (Paul D. Carrington & Trina Jones, eds, NYU Press)
   
June 26, 2006 Professor Baher Azmy will present A Return to Writ: A Substantive Reading of Rasul v. Bush at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag
   
June 15, 2006

NJSBF to Honor Professor Franzese with its Medal of Honor

   
June 14, 2006

Professor Carl Coleman to present on Surrogate Decision-Making in Medical Research at the Seton Hall Law School Brown Bag

   
June 14, 2006

Professor Shavar Jeffries, to receive first Brendan T. Byrne and Mrs. Ruthi Zinn Byrne Distinguished Public Service Award from the New Jersey Network Foundation

   
June 10, 2006

Professor Brenda Saunders Hampden will be honored by the Garden State Bar Association at its 31st Annual Scholarship & Awards Gala in New Brunswick

   
June 7, 2006

Professor Stephen Lubben presented Credit Derivatives and Chapter 11 at the Seton Hall Brown Bag

   
June 7, 2006 Professor Gaia Bernstein presented New Technologies and Windows of Opportunity for Privacy Protection at the International Symposium of Technology and Society in New York
   
June 5, 2006 Professor Frank Pasquale presented The Law & Economics of Information Overload Externalities to the annual May Gathering on Methodology in Legal Scholarship at the University of Virginia
   
June 2, 2006

Professor Frank Pasquale to present The Three Faces of Concierge Care: Toward a Tailored Regulatory Response at the 30th Annual Health Law Teacher's Conference in Baltimore

   
May 3, 2006 Prof. Pasquale spoke on "Privacy Concerns and Search Engines" at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference in Washington, D.C.
   
April 2006 Professor Paula Franzese, Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, to Receive the Alain Daniels Civic Responsibility Award
   
March 13, 2006 Educating New Jersey Students on the Importance of the U.S. Constitution
   
February 8, 2006
 
Report on Guantanamo Detainees
A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data
Report by Professor Mark Denbeaux and Joshua Denbeaux
   
January 27, 2006 Seton Hall Law Alumni Nominated to Federal Bench
Three of the five candidates currently nominated to sit as U.S. judges in New Jersey and on the 3rd Circuit are Seton Hall Law graduates.
   
January 18, 2006 Seton Hall Law mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Gerard Carey, one of the school's early architects and a dedicated and talented teacher
   
  Congratulations to the Class of 2005!
NY Bar Passage Rate: 88.8%
NJ Bar Passage Rate: 85.3%
   
January 13, 2006 Seton Hall Circuit Review Recognized  During Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
   
January 4, 2006 Seton Hall Law Professor's Article on "The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote" Placed on Green Bag's Exemplary Legal Writing List for 2005
 
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