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News for Alumni and Friends of the Seton Hall University School of Law
SETON HALL LAW Calendar of Events October 2000
November 2000
January 2001
February 2001
October 20, 8:30 a.m. ● 9th Annual Health Law Symposium: Health Privacy Issues and the new HIPAA Regulations, Law School Auditorium
November 1, 3-8 p.m. ● Office of Career Services Open House
January 5, 6:30-8 p.m. ● Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting Alumni Reception, San Francisco, CA
February 8, 6:30-9:30 p.m. ● Young Alumni Winter Reception, Tammany Hall, 218 E 53rd St., New York City
October 24, 5 p.m. ● Office of Career Services Symposium “Alternatives to On-Campus Interviews: Job Search Strategies,” Law School Room 273
November 4 ● First-Year Career Services Symposium November 8-14 ● Merck Visiting Scholar, Sara Rosenbaum, The George Washington University Medical Center,Visits Seton Hall Law School
January 17, 6:30 p.m. ● Alumni Association Council Meeting, Function Room January 31, 7 p.m. ● South Florida Regional Alumni Reception, South Beach, Miami
October 27, 6 p.m. ● Legal Education Opportunity (LEO) Alumni Dinner, Don Pepe’s Restaurant, Newark
November 15, 6:30 p.m. ● Alumni Association Council Meeting, Function Room
March 2001
April 2001
May 2001
June 2001
March 3 ● Annual Alumni Dinner Dance: 6 p.m. Mass; 6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception; 8 p.m. Dinner, Sheraton Meadowlands, East Rutherford ● Reunion 2001 Celebrating Class Years Ending in 6 and 1
April 6 & 7 ● John J. Gibbons National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition
May 16, 6:30 p.m. ● Alumni Association Council Meeting, Function Room
June 18, 1 p.m. ● Alumni Association Golf Outing: 11:30 a.m. lunch; 6:30 p.m. dinner, Essex County Country Club,West Orange
March 14, 7:30 a.m. ● IALSA St. Patrick’s Day Mass, Law School Auditorium, Followed by Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.,The Newark Club, Newark
November 30, 7-9 p.m. ● 2nd Annual Young Alumni Night, The Newark Club, Newark
April 21 ● Many Are One Dinner
May 18 ● New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting, Alumni Reception, Boulevard’s Cafe, Sheraton Atlantic City
March 21, 6:30 p.m. ● Alumni Association Council Meeting, Function Room March 29, 6 p.m. ● 4th Annual Judges’ Reception, Law School Atrium
For more information, contact Jeanne Marano at (973) 642-8711 or maranoje@shu.edu
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Contents From the Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alumni Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Unveiling the Institute of Law Science & Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Faculty in Print 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Faculty Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Talk Along the Tenure Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Kudos for Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The New Additions to the Faculty Roster
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Lou Andreozzi – The View From the Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Introducing Raymond Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Remembering Professor Andrea Catania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Appointment of William D. Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Professor Robert Diab – A Law School Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Tribute to Edward Hendrickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Class News & Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Commencement 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Robyn Andreula Office of the Dean (973) 642-8724 andreuro@shu.edu
Jana Anderson Cardoza Office of Public Relations and Marketing (973) 642-8818 cardozja@shu.edu
We’d like to hear from you. Please contact us at lawalum@shu.edu
Jeanne Marano Office of Law Alumni Relations (973) 642-8711 fax (973) 642-8799 maranoje@shu.edu
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From This past year brought Seton Hall Law School, once again, its share of accomplishments and milestones. Our Health Law and Policy Program was rated third best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Our alumni achieved positions of prestige in law firms, corporate America, and on the bench. This issue of Seton Hall Law profiles Lou Andreozzi ’84. Over a decade ago, Lou saw a job posting from our Career Services office for a sales rep position at Lexis, and now he’s President of the nation’s leading legal publisher. We also take tremendous pride in our alumni judicial appointments. The last three Federal District Court judicial openings in New Jersey have been filled by Seton Hall alumni: Katharine Hayden ’75, Joel Pisano ’74 and Dennis Cavanaugh ’72. This
issue of Seton Hall Law also will introduce you to an unprecedented seven new full-time faculty member s. Whether it’s Health Law, Intellectual Property, Civil Rights or Clinics, I am confident that our faculty is among the best in the country. Baher Azmy, Carl Coleman, Rachel Godsil, Tristin Green, Solangel Maldonado and Daniel Solove join Raymond Ku, who we’ve recruited to head up our new Institute of Law, Science & Technology.
The
last academic year also brought to a close the careers of two of the most beloved members of the Seton Hall family. Robert Diab retired after more than 40 years on the faculty teaching Trusts and Estates, Agency and Estate Taxation. He probably taught more of you than any other member of the faculty. I know that we all have a story about Bob that endears him to us. Another Seton Hall Law ‘ambassador,’ Ed Hendrickson, retired after 33 years in Admissions. I am thankful to Bob and Ed for their loyalty and commitment to our students and alums. And I’m sure you’ll be seeing them at future Alumni events.
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Charles
Sullivan returned to full-time teaching this fall after serving more than six years as Associate Dean for Academics. Charlie worked tirelessly to improve the academic standing of the school without ever losing his compassion for students. The standing ovation he received at graduation demonstrated the affection students have for him. And personally, I owe him a debt of gratitude for shepherding me through my first year as Dean. Succeeding Charlie as Associate Dean is Kathleen Boozang. I am excited by the energy and vision Kathleen brings to her new role. Having worked hard to bring our Health Law and Policy Program to national recognition, there is no doubt in my mind that she will be a positive force in achieving our goals and living our mission.
And now, a very sad note. On August 14, 2000, one of our dearest, most dedicated faculty members, Andrea Catania, suddenly passed away. Our community is still struggling to accept her death. Andrea was a wonderful friend, a talented teacher and scholar, and a tireless institution builder. A scholarship fund has been started in her name. As the long-time Chair of our Admissions
the
DEAN
Committee, nothing was more impor tant to Andrea than attracting the best and brightest to the Law School. This scholarship will serve as a memorial to her efforts.
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am pleased to report that we have recruited an impressive Fall class. Our Admissions staff worked hand-in-hand with faculty to get Seton Hall Law School’s message out there – we are a studentcentered community with a commitment to teaching and scholarly excellence. Next year promises to be even better, with the recent appointment of William Perez as Dean for Admissions and Financial Resource Management. I am looking forward to working closely with Bill to realize our goal of providing our students with affordable housing.
Finally, I have appointed a 50th Anniversary Steering Committee that will begin the plans for a three-yearlong series of events to commemorate the Law School’s founding – from its first class in 1951 to its first graduates in 1954. I welcome your suggestions, memories and stories, and I hope you will join me for this celebration. I hope to see you during the coming months. Until then, God bless you, your loved ones, and our Law School.
Dean Patrick E. Hobbs
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ALUMNI Dear Fellow Graduate:
It is with great pride that I begin my term as President of the Seton Hall University School of Law Alumni Association Council. During the past year, your Alumni Association has undertaken an exciting array of activities and some important new initiatives.
In an effort to reach a broader group of alumni, we have expanded the number of alumni serving on the Alumni Association Council and created a Young Alumni division.
Our First Annual Young Alumni Night brought together more than 250 recent graduates for a night of fun and networking.The enthusiasm expressed by our new alumni to remain connected with the Law School was very exciting. Be sure to look for information on our Second Annual Young Alumni Night, to be held November 30.
Participation in the Seton Hall Alumni Recruitment Program (SHARP), supporting the Office of Admissions, continues to increase. Alumni volunteers provide personal contact with prospective students through telephone outreach and representation at receptions. Because the Law School has undergone so many significant changes over the last ten years, participants in this year’s SHARP program will be invited to a “Seton Hall Law” orientation program, to enable them to better respond to applicants’ questions.
This year, Dean Hobbs will be making special efforts to reach out to the many graduates of Seton Hall who practice and live outside the tri-state area. We would appreciate hearing from anyone who would like to host the dean at an alumni reception in your area. Additionally, Dean Hobbs will be appointing a 50th Anniversary Committee, which will plan a three-year celebration of Seton Hall Law School’s first graduating classes. You’ll be hearing much more about these events in the ensuing months. As we enter this academic year, our greatest challenge is to continue
John J. Fahy, a 1981 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, received his B.A. and M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a partner in the Newark firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. Jay has been a member of the Alumni Association Council since 1990.
to increase alumni participation in events and annual giving. Alumni support expresses pride in the accomplishments of the Law School. No matter the size, your gift can make a difference.
I look forward to meeting you at one of the many events planned for the coming year. I thank you for your support and welcome your comments and suggestions. Very truly yours,
John J. Fahy ‘81 President Seton Hall University School of Law Alumni Association Council
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Unveiling the INSTITUTE of Law, Science & Technology The Chinese have a curse, “may you live in interesting times.” While we may debate whether this is really a blessing, we clearly live in interesting times. At no other point in history have science and technology so pervaded our lives. Nor have advances, inventions, and discoveries occurred so rapidly in fields ranging from genetics and biotechnology to telecommunications and computers. Many of these developments have transformed the way we live, the way we interact, and how we do business. For those who remember when computers occupied rooms rather than laps, when music was distributed on vinyl, and when the mapping of the human genome was science fiction, these advances can seem overwhelming. As difficult as it may be for individuals to adjust to these changes, our laws and legal institutions have even greater difficulty adapting.
As
important, the Institute will provide resources
and suppor t to the growing technology and scientific communities in New Jersey, as well as the national and global communities. Through Seton Hall’s talented faculty and alumni and by bringing together industry leaders, scientists, judges, and policy makers, the Institute will become a forum for addressing the legal, political, and social problems that arise as scientific and technological changes increasingly strain against existing laws, rules, and norms.
To this end, Seton Hall Law is pleased to announce that Raymond Ku has joined the Law School faculty and will serve as the Institute’s Director. Professor Ku is an honors graduate of Brown University where he received an A.B. in Political Science, and a cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law where he was an Arthur Garfield Hays
Seton
Hall’s new Institute of Law, Science &
Civil Liberties Fellow. After graduating law school,
Technology seeks to answer the legal challenges
Professor Ku served as a law clerk to the Honorable
posed by science and technology and to educate
Timothy K. Lewis of the United States Court of
the lawyers, lawmakers and judges who must
Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then practiced
develop the laws and policies necessary to respond
First Amendment, Communications, Intellectual
to advances in science and technology. Strategically
Property, and Antitrust law in Washington, D.C.
located in Northern New Jersey, home to many of
Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty, Professor Ku
the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
was a Visiting Professor at St. Thomas University
and telecommunication companies, and just across
School of Law in Miami and an Associate Professor
the river from Silicon Alley, the Institute will draw
of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San
upon the talent, experience, and resources of its
Diego, where he served as the school’s first Director
neighbors. Representatives of Merck and Lucent
for its Center for Law,Technology & Communications.
Technologies already serve on the Institute’s
A
Advisory Board.
promising young scholar concentrating on
Internet, Intellectual Property, and Constitutional
The Institute’s mission is twofold.
First, the Institute
Law, Professor Ku joins Professors Mark P.
will seek to educate and train the next generation
Denbeaux and D. Michael Risinger, scholars
of lawyers for the complex legal issues they will face
nationally known for their work on science in the
in the 21st Century. Seton Hall graduates who
courtroom. Together with Seton Hall’s talented
participate in the Institute’s programs and activities
alumni and students, the Law School has high
will be better prepared not only to respond
hopes for the Institute which, like the Health Law
effectively to the rapidly changing legal landscape,
Program before it, will become one of the leading
but also to anticipate those changes.
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Peter
TU ’94 Peter Tu is a big believer in Seton Hall’s Intellectual Property curriculum, which started him on what has become an exciting career in IP. Tu, who is a member of the Advisory Board for Seton Hall’s newly established Institute of Law, Science & Technology, recently left Weil, Gotschal & Manges for the fast-paced world of genomic modeling. In September, Tu became the first in-house lawyer at the Princeton, New Jersey
biotech firm, Physiome Sciences, where he will not only provide the legal expertise necessary for any biotech business, but also will play a role in the business side, developing Physiome’s IP strategy for the future. Not surprisingly, Tu stresses the importance for the aspiring IP lawyer of a broad-based curriculum, including corporate as well as more specialized courses. Seton Hall, he observes, has been astute in developing its curriculum, providing the student with everything she needs to advise the IP client from “the bench to market.”
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It’s no secret that Seton Hall Law students get more clerkship appointments than any other law school in the country, with the exception of Yale. But this year, a coveted clerkship was won by Eric W. Dittmann ’00 from Edison, NJ. Dittmann is the first Seton Hall student to have the opportunity to clerk at the Federal Circuit Court, where he will observe some of the nation’s most talented patent judges and litigators.
ERIC Dittmann’00 Dittmann
recently began his two-year clerkship
with the Honorable Alan D. Lourie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where patent litigation, veteran, and international
Institute of Law, Science & Technology and the
trade appeals from every state are heard. Judge
opportunities it will offer students. “Seton Hall
Lourie was formerly Vice President, Corporate
already has a strong alumni presence in the
Patents and Trademarks, and Associate General
intellectual property field, and the Institute will
Counsel of SmithKline Beecham Corporation.
undoubtedly open doors for students in the major New York and New Jersey patent firms,”
Seton
Hall’s strong Patent and Intellectual
says Dittmann.
Property offerings convinced Dittmann that this was his law school of choice. Dittmann received
As Judge Lourie’s clerk, Dittmann spends most of
his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical
his time doing what he does best – researching
Engineering with high honors from Rutgers
patent cases and studying the latest technology –
University. He graduated summa cum laude from
so that he can better assist the Judge in writing
Seton Hall Law School this past June. During law
opinions. He also is preparing to take the Patent
school, Dittmann spent his summers as an intern
Bar. At the conclusion of the clerkship,
— first at Lucent Technologies Patent Litigation
Dittmann plans to enter private practice in
Department, then at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper &
patent litigation. Dittmann believes that Seton
Scinto, a prominent Manhattan patent litigation
Hall has helped make it all possible by
firm. Dittmann is excited about the creation of the
providing the best legal education available and offering an internship program that prepared him for corporate patent litigation.
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FACULTYin PRINT 2000 Michelle Adams Causation and Responsibility in Tort and Affirmative Action, ___ TEX. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2001). Craig Albert Your Ad Goes Here: How the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 Thwarts Highway Beautification, 48 U. KAN. L. REV. 463 (2000). Angela Carmella CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES
ON LEGAL THOUGHT
(Angela Carmella, et al. eds., forthcoming 2001).
A Catholic View of Law and Justice, in CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES forthcoming 2001).
ON LEGAL THOUGHT
(Angela Carmella, et al. eds.,
Carl H. Coleman Procreative Liberty and Contemporaneous Choice: An Inalienable Rights Approach to Frozen Embryo Disputes, 84 MINN. L. REV. 55 (1999). Kip Cornwell Preventing Kids from Killing, 37 HOUS. L. REV. 21 (2000). The New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act: Analysis and Recommendations for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders in New Jersey, 24 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 1 (1999) (John V. Jacobi and Philip H. Witt). John F. Coverdale Remedies for Unconstitutional State Taxes, 32 CONN L. REV. 73 (1999). Elizabeth Defeis WOMEN’S LEGAL RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS - AN ALTERNATIVE TO ERA? (2nd ed. forthcoming 2001) (Malvina Halberstam). Howard Erichson Informal Aggregation, 50 DUKE L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2000). A Hero of Moderate Proportions, 74 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1217 (1999). A Tribute to Justice Stewart G. Pollock, 30 SETON HALL L. REV. 430 (2000). Coattail Class Actions: Reflections on Microsoft, Tobacco, and the Mixing of Public and Private Lawyering in Mass Litigation, 34 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Linda E. Fisher Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Autonomy, the Common Good, and the Courts, 18 YALE L. & POL’Y REV. 351 (2000). Paula Franzese Common Interest Communities: Standards of Review and Review of Standards, 3 WASH. U.J.L. & POL’Y ___ (forthcoming 2000). Margaret Gilhooley Constitutionalizing Food and Drug Law, 74 TUL. L. REV. 815 (2000). Rachel Godsil The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen, in DOUBLE EXPOSURE: POVERTY & RACE IN AMERICA ___ (forthcoming 2000). Edward A. Hartnett Questioning Certiorari: Some Reflections Seventy-Five Years After the Judges’ Bill, 100 COLUM. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000).
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John V. Jacobi Fakers, Nuts and Federalism: Common Law in the Shadow of the ADA, 33 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 95 (1999). The New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act: Analysis and Recommendations for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders in New Jersey, 24 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 1 (1999) (John K. Cornwell and Philip H. Witt). Prosecuting Police Misconduct, ___ WIS. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Medicaid Expansion and the Limits of Incremental Reform, ___ ST. LOUIS U.L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Tracy A. Kaye Source of Income Rules and Treaty Relief Within the NAFTA Trading Bloc, 61 LA. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Raymond Ku Swingers: Morality Legislation and the Limits of State Police Power, 12 ST.THOMAS L. REV. 1 (1999). Antitrust Immunity, the First Amendment and Settlements: Defining the Boundaries of the Right to Petition, 33 IND. L. REV. 385 (2000). Open Internet Access & Freedom of Speech: A First Amendment Catch-22, 75 TUL. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Marina Lao The Rule of Reason and Horizontal Restraints Involving Professionals, 68 ANTITRUST L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Unilateral Refusals to Sell or License Intellectual Property and the Antitrust Duty to Deal, 9 CORNELL J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 193 (2000). Robert J. Martin Reinforcing New Jersey’s Bench: Power Tools for Remodeling Senatorial Courtesy and Refinishing Judicial Selection, 53 RUTGERS L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Catherine McCauliff Conditions, 8 CORBIN ON CONTRACTS (rev. ed. 1999). Marc R. Poirier Gender Stereotypes at Work, 65 BROOK. L. REV. 1073 (1999). D. Michael Risinger Defining the “Task at Hand”: Non-Science Forensic Science after Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, 37 WASH. & LEE L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Navigating Expert Reliability: The Supreme Court Changes the Sailing Directions, but Where is the Fleet?, 64 ALB. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2000). Daniel J. Solove The Darkest Domain: Deference, Judicial Review, and the Bill of Rights, 84 IOWA L. REV. 941 (1999). Charles A. Sullivan C ASES AND MATERIALS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION (5th ed. 2000) (Deborah A. Calloway, Richard F. Richards, Michael J. Zimmer). Sarah Waldeck Cops, Community Policing, and the Social Norms Approach to Crime Control: Should One Make Us More Comfortable With the Others?, 34 GA. L. REV. 1253 (2000). John B.Wefing Employer Drug Testing: Disparate Judicial and Legislative Responses, 63 ALB. L. REV. 799 (2000). Michael J. Zimmer C ASES AND MATERIALS ON EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION (5th ed. 2000) (Deborah A. Calloway, Richard F. Richards, Charles A. Sullivan). EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: ASPEN ROADMAP LAW COURSE OUTLINE (2000). Chaos or Coherence: Individual Disparate Treatment Discrimination and the ADEA, 51 MERCER L. REV. 693 (2000). SETON HALL LAW 9
facul John
Jacobi
PROFILE
John Jacobi is Professor of Law and Associate Director of both the Seton Hall Law School Health Law & Policy Program and the Institute of Law & Mental Health. He teaches a variety of health law courses, including Managed Care, Health Care Fraud and Mental Health Law. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984 and his B.A. summa cum laude from the State University College of New York at Buffalo in 1981. He served as law clerk to the Honorable Anne E. Thompson, United States District Judge. Before coming to Seton Hall, he practiced public interest law, first as Assistant to the Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, and then as a fellow in the Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law. He publishes and lectures on issues related to health care finance, access to health care for the poor and disabled, mental health law, and disability discrimination. He continues to practice public interest law through the Gibbons Fellowship.
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ltyFEATURE PROSECUTING POLICE MISCONDUCT
The police and the residents of some American communities are at war. Although the majority of officers perform their difficult duties without brutalizing the people they serve, police too frequently attack, beat and kill civilians. Both the phenomena of police misconduct and civilian distrust can be traced in large part to a cycle of impunity, by which the reluctance of local government to prosecute bad cops empowers future misconduct and drives communities to regard the police as adversaries instead of protectors. Federal prosecutors, free from local entanglements, should be the check to this cycle of impunity, but they are hindered by narrow federal criminal civil rights law.
The last decade opened and closed with violent police
who was in the vestibule of his apartment building in
incidents. On March 3, 1991, police officers from the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Police Department confronted the unarmed and intoxicated Rodney King. After leading the police on a high-speed chase, Mr. King resisted arrest for a time, was subdued, and then was savagely beaten by four Los Angeles police officers – an event captured on a widely viewed amateur video tape.
the Bronx. The officers shot 41 times at the unarmed Diallo, hitting him with 19 bullets.
Many cities have experienced similarly tragic incidents over the last decade. The Christopher Commission in Los Angeles, the Mollen Commission in New York, and similar independent investigatory bodies in Chicago, New Orleans and Boston have reached two conclusions. First, many police departments contain rogue members
On
February 4, 1999, four officers of the New York
who have life and death power over civilians, and
Police Department unleashed a “ferocious barrage” of
who criminally abuse power by seriously harming
bullets at Amadou Diallo, a young Guinean immigrant,
civilians. Second, state and local officials too often do
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facultyFEATURE little to discipline or remove these rogue cops. The Human Rights Watch has recently issued a report confirming these conclusions.
Police
have a tough job: “order-keeping and control, typically done through coercion.” The power to use force in situations calling for the exercise of individual judgment and discretion could be expected to lead to some mistakes and even abuses. The very breadth of police officers’ discretionary power to use violence suggests a powerful need for accountability. The failure to hold abusive police accountable perverts the rule of law, makes citizens distrustful of authority, and encourages further lawlessness by police officers. Although police misconduct may be addressed by legal tools other than criminal prosecution, prosecution of police guilty of serious crimes serves the important social interests of deterring future lawlessness of police officers, and assuring civilians that all citizens (including those in uniform) are treated equally in the enforcement of criminal law.
But the police do not receive equal treatment under state criminal law. Police are rarely prosecuted, in part because fellow officers are reluctant to vigorously pursue investigations of misconduct by their comrades, often following a code of silence that frustrates factual development. Prosecutors also find themselves in a difficult position when faced with an accusation of police misconduct. They work closely with police, and their ability to succeed in their ever yday tasks of
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prosecuting crimes depends on the cooperation of police officers. When they are asked to prosecute one of these allies, prosecutors face “an impossible conflict of interest between their desire to maintain working relationships and their duty to investigate and prosecute police brutality.”
Local authorities, then, often fail to pursue prosecutions against violent police officers. During the Reconstruction era, Congress became concerned that state officials were neglecting or were complicit in violent civil rights crimes. In response, Congress created a federal criminal civil rights statute, now 42 U.S.C. § 242, in order to provide a federal source of prosecutorial authority to be employed to protect citizens from violence under color of law. However, since the Supreme Court’s 1945 decision in Screws v. United States, § 242 is a rarely used tool in the fight against police misconduct.
Screws involved “a shocking and revolting episode in law enforcement.” Screws, sheriff of Baker County, Georgia, arrested a young black man (against whom Screws held a grudge) on a charge of theft of a tire. Screws and two deputies beat the handcuffed man to death. The state neither investigated nor prosecuted the killing. Screws was tried, however, in federal court on a charge of violation of § 242. The indictment charged Screws with willfully causing the death of the victim, in violation of his rights to life and to be tried for crimes in a cour t of law, and not to be summarily tried and executed. He was convicted.
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plurality of the Supreme Court found § 242 impermissibly vague, concluding that “there is no ascertainable standard of guilt.” In order to save the statute, the Court read it as requiring proof that the defendant acted with “a specific intent to deprive a person of a federal right made definite by decision or other rule of law.” General bad intent is not enough, even where the action of the defendant undeniably deprived the victim of a right protected by federal law. Instead, the rule of Screws is that a jury, to convict, must find the specific “purpose to deprive the [victim] of a constitutional right.”
The Screws interpretation of § 242’s willfulness element has made federal prosecution of police misconduct cases significantly more difficult. Such prosecutions would de difficult in any case, as federal prosecutions would face many of the difficulties faced by their state counterparts. But Screws magnifies the problem.
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice analyzed its handling of 10,129 civil rights complaints during FY1996. It filed only 79 cases; of those, only 22 were “Official Misconduct” cases, some of which were police abuse cases. In response to a request by Human Rights Watch for an explanation for the low rate of prosecution, Richard Roberts of the Civil Rights Division explained that federal civil rights prosecutions are difficult due to the requirement of proof of the accused officer’s ‘specific intent’ to deprive an individual of his or her civil rights as distinguished, for example, from an intent simply to assault an individual.
In his opinion in Screws, Justice Douglas was at pains to explain that the narrow interpretation of the statute was not an intimation of a commensurately narrow congressional power to federalize a crime of official misconduct. While Congress’ power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment sweeps broadly, the Court could wring no more breadth out of the statute’s
awkward structure:“We take the course which makes it possible to preserve the entire Act and save all parts of it from constitutional challenge. If Congress desires to give the Act wider scope, it may find ways of doing so.” Congress should take up that suggestion. I propose that Congress adopt a supplemental criminal civil rights statute – call it § 242A. It would address the following circumstances: A police officer seriously harms a person (e.g., he intentionally kills her without justification) under color of law; local law enforcement pursues the case either half-heartedly or not at all; and federal law enforcement concludes that the mens rea requirements of § 242 cannot be made out. Excluded from this paradigm are many police misconduct cases, including those in which the specific intent requirement of § 242 is demonstrably present, and those in which local law enforcement appropriately prosecutes the police officer. In those excluded cases, either local or federal law enforcement, or both, vindicate the goal of holding bad cops responsible. What is left is a subset of police misconduct cases, but a significant subset in two senses. It is significant in number: each year, many serious police misconduct cases go unprosecuted. And it is significant in social implication: in these cases, police officers intentionally or recklessly kill or seriously injure those they are charged with protecting, and they escape all criminal accountability.
To successfully fill the enforcement gap, a new statute must, without the benefit of § 242’s specific intent requirement, “give a clear and unmistakable warning as to the acts that will subject one to criminal punishment.” The proposed statute accomplishes this by criminalizing conduct under color of law that would violate the Model Penal Code’s sections on murder, manslaughter, rape (excepting statutory rape), kidnapping, and aggravated assault. It would also codify the defenses in the Model Penal Code for use of force in law enforcement – protection of self and others, and justifiable force when making an arrest or preventing a crime.
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facultyFEA Curing the vagueness in the federal criminal civil rights law is no more than half the battle. Eight of the Justices clearly stated in Screws that the extension of federal prosecution into matters historically within the province of state authorities raised grave concerns for the continued delicate federal balance. To maintain the proper level of deference to states, the proposed statute would permit federal prosecution only if a federal court finds, after a hearing, that state authorities have not investigated or prosecuted the police officer, or have done so in bad faith or in a biased manner. Federal prosecution under the proposed statute would, then, complement, and not supplant, local authority. This statutory model of complementary jurisdiction is drawn from recent developments in international criminal law.
The tensions between federal and state law enforcement in this area bear a close kinship to those that have emerged in international criminal law, where the goal of protecting individuals clashes with the nations’ interest in maintaining control of internal law enforcement. A conference organized by the United Nations in 1998 developed a statute creating the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), which accommodated these interjurisdictional tensions through a quasi-exhaustion doctrine called “complementarity.”
The primacy of national courts in international criminal matters has a well developed history. The movement to create the ICC springs in large part, however, from the international community’s concern, rooted in recent
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history, that national courts may be unwilling or unable to prosecute its own nationals who commit war crimes or violate human rights.The framers of the ICC had to both accommodate concerns for sovereignty and reflect realistic concern for vigorous enforcement of human rights by national courts.
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prosecution before the ICC may not proceed if a case is the subject of the home nation’s current or past investigation or prosecution, unless that nation is “unwilling or unable genuinely to carry out the investigation or prosecution.” A nation, then, is regarded as having cleaned up its own mess if it has investigated or prosecuted the alleged international crime, unless its investigation or prosecution is determined to be a sham.
The Rome Treaty creating the ICC was approved (although the United States dissented, and is not a party) following a long process including years of preparatory meetings, much formal and informal negotiation among nations and groups of nations, and a month–long conference at which many final details were hammered out. This protracted process was necessary to accommodate the substantial tension between two interests: the interest of nations to suppor t a permanent tribunal to vindicate impor tant
TURE Congress can benefit from the years of work on these human rights, and the interest of nations to guard prospectively against excessive intermeddling in their national affairs by an independent international tribunal. The ICC was approved by the drafting of a treaty, by which nations will be bound upon ratification.
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process by which federal-state relations in the United States are accommodated is more routinized. The constitution and laws of the United States are supreme, notwithstanding any state law to the contrary. By the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the United States acquired power of enforcement of federal rights against state actors, state law considerations notwithstanding; for constitutional purposes, it does not see whether the state actors’ conduct is conceived as violative of the Fourteenth, Fourth or Eighth Amendments. Recent jurisprudential shifts related to “judicial federalism” do not alter these basic concepts as applied to criminal civil rights law.
That Congress has the power to adopt § 242A does not end the inquiry, but instead shifts it to the political arena. And appropriately so: it is, after all, the Congress itself that stands as the primary guarantor of state interests in the federal system. As the Court described in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, “the principal means chosen by the Framers to ensure the role of the States in the federal system lies in the structure of the Federal Government itself.”
issues in the ICC context.The national representatives considering the creation of the ICC faced difficult questions quite similar to those implicated by congressional consideration of Proposed § 242A. The conferees in Rome attempted to maximize the extent to which international human rights criminals could be prosecuted, while minimizing the disruption of national justice systems by international prosecutors. Many of the compromises reached in Rome were rooted in this effort to achieve a balance, and they therefore would prove instructive were a similar balance to be sought in modifying federal criminal civil rights law.
Although Congress has the power to act, the political barriers are daunting. Congress must weigh the value to citizens of enhanced protection from police violence against the legitimate prerogatives of local authorities to primary responsibility for oversight of police. The statute I propose would permit federal jurisdiction when bad cops commit serious crimes and local officials do not clean up their own mess. Such a statute would be a small but significant step toward addressing the cycle of impunity so harmful to social order.
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Professors Michelle Adams and Howard Erichson began teaching at Seton Hall Law School in 1995 and earned tenure this year. Both embody the traits of the dynamic Seton Hall faculty. They are dedicated to their students and to scholarship addressing today’s most important legal issues. MICHELLE ADAMS was a staff attorney in the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit of the Legal Aid Society in New York working on major litigation against the New York Housing Authority when she decided to take the plunge into teaching. “I realized through that case [Davis v. New York City Housing Authority] that I wanted more time to write about the issues that are so important to me,” she explains.
Adams had enjoyed teaching a high school legal course through a New York Civil Liberties Union program as well as Michelle Adams a seminar at Bennington College. So she decided to enroll in an LL.M. program at Harvard designed to bring more professors of color into the academy. Adams earned her LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1994. Today, she is one of Seton Hall’s most prolific scholars. Adams’ articles have focused on race discrimination, sexual harassment, housing law, and affirmative action and have been published in the law reviews of Arizona, Texas, Tulane and Wisconsin. Teaching has afforded Adams a way to work on the things that excite her most as a public interest lawyer. “I get enormous job satisfaction from being a law professor, particularly in teaching Civil Rights Law,” she says. “Many students come here with certain ideas about advocacy and political work. But there’s an opportunity to teach them how to think differently about some of the key issues. I’ve been really successful here at that.” Adams also teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law and Federal Courts. “The emphasis on teaching at Seton Hall is a big plus. The students have access to the professors and there’s not the
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kind of adversarial relationship you find in some places,” she says. Professor Adams is proud of the fact that many of her students talk about the special way that she has touched their lives as she brings so much of her own experience to her teaching. One of many examples is Jim Fennessy, a State Police Officer who recently graduated from Seton Hall Law School with honors. Fennessy credits Adams with much of his success.
“As she guided me through civil rights and affirmative action law, Professor Adams encouraged and inspired me,” Fennessy said. “Thanks to her, I published an article on police response to racial profiling. Her mentoring has opened up worlds of opportunity to me.” Fennessy’s article caught the eye of New Jersey Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr., who ultimately tapped Fennessy for a special assignment in his office. As a result, Fennessy, who had been a State Trooper for more than 14 years, was pulled from road duty to serve on the State Police unit created to implement a consent decree with the Justice Department to end racial profiling. Adams traces her interest in race and the law back to her childhood. The daughter of the late Bernard Adams, a prominent Detroit criminal defense attorney, and the godchild of the Honorable Claudia Morcolm, a State Judge, Adams says she grew up in a family where the law and being a lawyer were very important. “I always knew that I wanted to be a lawyer,” she says. “I certainly said that even before I knew what it meant. But I knew in my mind, even as a young person, that being a lawyer meant something important, something serious, something powerful.”
Growing up during “the tail end of the civil rights movement,” Adams had the opportunity to meet a number of figures so important to that struggle, including Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks. Understanding how the law and lawyers were “inextricably involved” in such historical events as the Montgomery Bus Boycott shaped the person she is today. Adams earned a bachelor’s degree in History at Brown University and a J.D. from the City University of New York.
seton hall university school of law After graduating from law school, she clerked for the Honorable James C. Francis IV, Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
York University. As a law student, Erichson won several prizes for scholarship, was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New York University Law Review.
Adams feels passionately about righting the wrongs of what she perceives as the current, government-sanctioned “segregation” of public schools. She talks about how children in urban areas, by dint of birth, often are subjected to inferior school systems characterized by lower per-pupil spending, higher student/teacher ratios, overcrowded conditions and “all of the factors that we know contribute to failure or success in education in the long term.”
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avid sports fan, Adams is right at home in New York where she has lived for more than 15 years. She so enjoys following the Knicks, the Yankees and the Liberty women’s basketball team that she has even been known to assign a student to check a score during an evening class break. A confessed movie buff, Professor Adams once took courses in film theory and criticism and seriously considered a career as a film critic. But the Seton Hall Law School community is grateful that she chose to teach here instead.
HOWARD ERICHSON, who teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Tor ts and Complex Litigation at Seton Hall, once coached ice hockey, soccer, track and lacrosse at the Green Vale School in New York, where he taught English and history to seventh–, eighth– and ninth–grade students.
“In
my prior career as a junior high school teacher, it was clear to me that my heart belonged in teaching, but I wanted to teach at a higher level,” Erichson explains. “I applied to law school with the idea that I wanted Howard Erichson to teach. Law touches so many aspects of how people live, and it is constantly changing. I knew it would always be an important and interesting field to work in.”
With that in mind, Erichson, who had finished Harvard University cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Government, put down his coach’s whistle to pursue law studies at New
Upon
graduation, Erichson clerked for the Honorable Stewart G. Pollock, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and then for the Honorable James L. Oakes, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Following his clerkships, Erichson became an Associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York where he specialized in complex civil litigation. Erichson explains that, while in practice, he litigated large-scale, multi-party cases, including mass tort litigation and business disputes. “ I loved the strategic and procedural complexities,” he says.“The more complicated the case, the better I liked it.”
Erichson
is working on an article about the roles of government and private lawyers in the Microsoft and tobacco litigation. His recent scholarship has focused on various aspects of complex litigation, including an article in Michigan Law Review on the interjurisdictional effect of judgments, one in Georgetown Law Journal on court-appointed scientific experts and settlement class actions in mass tort litigation and one in Duke Law Journal on coordinated efforts by lawyers in related lawsuits. In addition to publishing in academic journals, Erichson contributes regularly to publications such as The National Law Journal and the online Legal News Network.
Personally committed to “finding students with the potential to become excellent and honorable lawyers,” Erichson chairs the Admissions and Financial Aid Committee at Seton Hall Law School. He also serves as faculty advisor to the Law Review. He was selected as a University Teaching Fellow for 1998-99, and elected the Law School’s Professor of the Year in 1998.
Loved
by students and professors alike, Erichson believes there is a sense of collegiality among the faculty at Seton Hall that you do not find at every law school.“There’s also a lot of respect for quality teaching,” he says.“Personally, I feel that this is an institution that supports me as both a scholar and a teacher, not one at the expense of the other.”
Erichson
observes that “Seton Hall does a good job of striking the balance between remaining on the academic cutting edge without losing touch with the day-to-day realities of law practice, in terms of both teaching and scholarship.”
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Kudos FOR Charlie To say that Professor Charlie Sullivan was an angry young man would have been to put it mildly. Back in the early 1970s, Al Meyer, visiting at the University of South Carolina Law School, where Sullivan began his teaching career, remarked: “He’s the only person I’ve ever met who doesn’t take yes for an answer.”
That Sullivan was always argumentative is not surprising to those who know a mellower, but still sometimes cantankerous, former Associate Dean. “Charlie has a powerful personality,” reflects Michael Zimmer, Sullivan’s friend and colleague of nearly 30 years. Recalling their early days together as faculty members at the University of South Carolina Law School, Zimmer says, “Charlie was a natural leader among a group of talented people, always pushing that law school forward into a new era of inclusion.”
From
South Carolina, Sullivan made his way to the University of Arkansas where he taught on the law faculty with Bill and Hillary Clinton. “She was dedicated to teaching. He was dedicated to running for office,” he recalls.
University of Illinois Law Review was “a path-breaking analysis of employment covenants not to compete done from the perspective of antitrust law.”
In
Better known today as one of the authors of the nation’s
1978, Seton Hall hired Sullivan, who quickly became known as one of Seton Hall Law School’s most successful scholars. “Some will be surprised that Charlie was hired to teach Antitrust Law since he is now more clearly identified as one of the nation’s premier employment law and employment discrimination law experts,” says Zimmer. “But the shift from a scholarly focus on antitrust to employment law was gradual but predictable.” Zimmer explains that one of Sullivan’s first articles published in the
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leading casebook and treatise on Employment Discrimination, Sullivan also taught Contracts and Employment Discrimination even after becoming Associate Dean in 1994. Popular among his Seton Hall Law School colleagues for his unstinting generosity in helping to shape their scholarly endeavors, Sullivan has mentored countless scholars at
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innumerable other law schools as well. At a reception marking Sullivan’s return to full-time teaching, Dean Hobbs remarked that “Charlie not only reads everything we write, he reads everything.”
Zimmer
explains how Sullivan was such an effective Associate Dean, while keeping up his scholarship. “Charlie has brought great energy to his every effort and is effective on a broad array of fronts,” says Zimmer. “He may be unique in the power of his analytical abilities to concentrate effectively on one issue while, at the same time keeping a hundred other balls bouncing.”
Sullivan’s unique sense of humor might also explain how he survives the stress of being constantly over extended. “His ‘Heidelberg principle,’ based on the Heisenberg principle of physics, states that ‘as observers we influence events even just by watching,’ ” Zimmer says. “And his ‘chaos theory of institutions’ holds that ‘no observer can really know what, in fact, is happening.’ Both support his notion that we do best to enjoy the inevitable surprises that we are presented with and we always seize opportunities to do the right thing, no matter how ephemeral they may appear.”
“The job of Associate Dean entails the unenviable task of dismissing students and guiding and prodding those on probation to academic success,” says Kathleen Boozang, Sullivan’s successor. “Charlie did so with compassion and empathy. I can only hope that I am half as successful as he was.”
Never one to rest on his laurels, Sullivan returns full time to the classroom this fall, expanding his repertoire to include Health Law. Dean Hobbs also recently appointed Sullivan to a new role as Coordinator of Law School Writing Programs and Information Technology. In that capacity, Sullivan will co-teach with Professor E. Judson Jennings, an online legal writing course for pre-law students.
As Associate Dean, Sullivan led the school to significantly improve bar passage rates in New York and New Jersey. He also oversaw the implementation of more rigorous academic standards, and according to his faculty and administrative colleagues alike, he did it all with remarkable grace.
In his spare time, Sullivan enjoys life as a family man. He is a sturdy pillar of suppor t for wife, Leila, who has been President of several community colleges, their daughters, Meghan and Moira, and his nephew, Mark, and granddaughter, Jessica. He may be a grandfather now, but as Dean Hobbs so eloquently said at the reception in Sullivan’s honor, “Charlie is young at heart – forever young.” Not only that, but we have it on good authority, that these days, he will occasionally accept “yes” for an answer.
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NEWAdditions to the FACULTY ROSTER
What do basketball and law school have in common? Usually not much. But if you’re talking about Seton Hall, not surprisingly there are some parallels. Last fall, Seton Hall Pirates’ coach Tommy Amaker landed one of the best recruiting classes in the country. Sports writers nationwide made predictions that this academic year would be Coach Amaker’s breakout year. The Pirates, however, showed that the future is now at Seton Hall by reaching the NCAA Sweet Sixteen this past March. So where’s the parallel? Well, last fall, Seton Hall Law School Dean Patrick Hobbs was busy doing some heavy recruiting of his own...for law professors. He’s added seven law professors. Together with the solid core of scholars already at the Law School, Dean Hobbs has big plans for his new dream team. And with a new Institute of Law, Science & Technology, he will need more than a few good players. Even Coach Amaker is impressed. “Though Pat is relatively new at his job, he is already doing big things in a big way,” Amaker says. “Seton Hall Law has been building the foundation for success for some years now, and under Pat’s leadership, the pieces are in place for the Law School to be counted among the nation’s best. Throughout the entire University community, there is a sense of tremendous excitement about the things to come.”
Seton Hall Pirate’s Coach Tommy Amaker and Dean Hobbs compare notes on their upcoming seasons.
This year, Amaker looks forward to putting his new team on the floor. And while the Pirates practice, Hobbs will be busy putting his new team in the classroom, setting a course for national recognition. CARL COLEMAN, who once taught Health Law
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Program,” he says. “It has one of the most extensive health law programs of any law school in the country. In addition, I was impressed with how much the faculty and students genuinely seem to like being here.”
“Seton Hall was particularly attractive to me because
Coleman joins the Seton Hall faculty and the Health
of its nationally recognized Health Law & Policy
Law & Policy Program from the New York State Task
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Force on Life and the Law where he served as Executive Director since 1995. The Task Force is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary commission with a mandate to propose public policies on issues raised by medical advances, including withholding life-sustaining treatment, genetic testing and assisted reproductive technologies. Recommendations of the Task Force have led to legislation and regulations in several states and have been cited extensively by the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts. Before he became Executive Director, Coleman served as Legal Counsel to the Task Force, advising on legal aspects of policy issues, assisting in the development of legislative proposals, and writing and editing reports.
issues. Lawyers should be prepared to approach these issues knowledgeably and to distinguish between legitimate concerns and what is sensationalized in the press.”
Coleman adds that studying bioethics also provides a useful opportunity for students to explore the role of lawyers as public policy advocates and to examine broader issues of professional ethics common to both lawyers and health care professionals. “Bioethics is a fascinating subject in its own right; students should study it because they’ll enjoy it,” he says.
Prior to working at the Task Coleman
will be teaching Torts and a variety of courses in bioethics and health policy at Seton Hall. He brings a wealth of experience, including numerous conference presentations for such scholarly associations as the National Academy of Sciences and the New York Academy of Medicine. Coleman also has been an active participant on a number of advisory boards and committees, including serving as a Commissioner of the New York State Attorney General’s Commission to Improve Quality of Care at the End of Life. He has taught special courses and seminars to medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Coleman also has taught courses on bioethics and health policy at Hofstra University School of Law and New York University School of Law.
Asked about his work in the relatively uncharted field of bioethics, Coleman says, “Bioethics is a great field because it deals with issues that people care about passionately. I particularly enjoy the interdisciplinary nature of bioethics; it’s a great way to learn about disciplines and perspectives not usually encountered in the study of law.”
Force on Life and the Law, Coleman was a Litigation Associate at the New York firm of Leventhal Slade & Kranz. He clerked for the Honorable James L. Oakes, then Chief Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals after earning a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where he was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. Carl Coleman Coleman also holds a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard. While an undergraduate student in International Affairs at Georgetown University, he completed a one-year intensive Chinese language program at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.
Coleman, who will commute to Seton Hall from his New York apartment, enjoys gardening, cooking and playing the clarinet.
Coleman
feels strongly that studying bioethics and health policy is valuable for law students, even those who are not planning on becoming health lawyers. “Bioethics is part of all of our lives, as consumers of health care, as members of families and communities, and as citizens of a democracy. People often turn to lawyers for guidance and leadership on controversial SETON HALL LAW 21
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RACHEL GODSIL starts her first year teaching Property and a seminar in Equality in American Law. Professor Godsil, who comes to Seton Hall from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, says she was attracted to the Law School by its “vibrant and engaged student body.” She also is “thrilled to remain part of the public interest legal community in New York and New Jersey.”
Formerly Assistant Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in New York, Godsil assisted in voting rights, death penalty and housing litigation. She also served as lead Counsel in several successful actions, including one opposing the privatization of New York City’s public hospitals. Perhaps most importantly, Godsil coordinated the LDF’s Environmental Justice Docket, and as a litigator, represented communities challenging the siting of noxious land uses in their communities.
She wrote a student note, “Remedying Environmental Racism,” which was published in the Michigan Law Review in 1992. She later served as Executive Article Editor of the Law Review, was inducted into Order of the Coif and ultimately graduated magna cum laude, finishing in the top six percent of her class.
“Through
the combination of community activism and legal advocacy, I worked with several communities that successfully prevented incinerators from being built,” she says. “It was wonderful and important work and I feel lucky to have been a part of it.”
Godsil’s
background includes a clerkship with the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, and work as an Associate at the New York law firms of Berle, Kass & Case and later, Arnold & Porter.
At
home in Brooklyn, Godsil and her husband, Jim Freeman, also a lawyer, spend most of their time trying to amuse their one–year old daughter, Kate. But “pre-Kate,” Professor Godsil was a movie and fiction buff and spent a lot of time exploring New York City’s restaurant scene.
Godsil’s interest in environmental justice stems from her early days in law school. Armed with a degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Godsil studied law at the University of Michigan, intent on becoming a civil rights lawyer. While there, she learned that the United Church of Christ had completed a study finding that people of color – without regard to income – were more likely to live in communities that housed hazardous waste.That study resulted in the term “environmental racism” and galvanized the environmental justice movement.
“The
fact of environmental racism was profoundly disturbing to me,” says Godsil, “ but the emergence of this new front in the civil rights movement was exciting as people came together to fight for environmental justice.”
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TRISTIN GREEN, a former magazine editor, star ts this fall teaching Civil Procedure and Employment Discrimination. Green earned her J.D. at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law before clerking for Garland E. Burrell Jr., United States District Cour t Judge in California and Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, of the Third Circuit.
Green
has published in the California Law Review and is currently researching the use of summary judgment and its potential as a tool for affecting social change. She decided to teach immediately
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following her clerkships because she knew that she wanted to spend her career thinking and writing about issues related to law. “My scholarship interests center primarily on procedural systems and the influence of law on individual and social behavior,” Green says. “I thought I would be most productive and happiest teaching and writing about those issues within a supportive academic community.”
Like
many of her new colleagues, Green is excited about coming to Seton Hall and becoming part of a diverse yet cohesive faculty “that seems genuinely to care, individually, about teaching and scholarship and, collectively, about the direction of the school as a whole.” Green brings to her scholarly work a lot of the same enthusiasm she showed for writing as the Senior Editor of California Bicyclist Magazine.
“Writing
is most fun when you have something to say, and when you take the time to enjoy the process of expanding your mind in trying to say it,” Green says. “Journalism was a great side door to a career in law as it taught me the importance of different perspectives on the same story and forced me to develop an ability to consider how the minute details fit in with the larger picture in any circumstance. It also prepared me to think about an audience and how someone else is going to react to a particular explanation of a concept, whether it’s a simple rule of procedure or a complex social theory.”
Green earned a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of California in Los Angeles.
Green and her husband, Mark Fishbach, an architect, recently bought a home in Westfield, where they look forward to walking along the Watchung Mountain Reservation trails with their yellow Labrador. Green, who left San Francisco not so long ago, says she also is looking forward to trading the California sunshine for the culture of the New York theater, just a train ride away.
As the director of Seton Hall’s new Institute of Law, Science & Technology, RAYMOND KU is as concerned with location as any good real estate developer and not just because he moved recently to New Jersey from San Diego. “With the growth of the technological sector in both New Jersey and Manhattan, Seton Hall’s Raymond Ku location is obviously ideal for someone who wants to be involved with legal issues involving intellectual proper ty,” Ku says. Nor thern
New Jersey is increasingly recognized as the center of international pharmaceutical, biotechnology and telecommunications industries, many of which, including Merck and Lucent Technologies, are represented on the new Institute’s advisory board. Some of the same corporations also have long supported Seton Hall’s nationally recognized Health Law & Policy Program.
Ku
comes to Seton Hall from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego where he taught Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Media Law and Intellectual Property and served as Director of the Center for Law, Technology and Communications. At Seton Hall, Ku will focus his teaching on intellectual property, although he also is pleased to be able to work in Constitutional Law and Internet Law.
Internet Law holds a special interest for Ku. “I have always been interested in computers and growing up, did a great deal of computer programming,” Ku explains. “In fact, it was only a quirk of fate that I ended up a lawyer instead of a computer programmer. As a result, the development of the Internet is something that I have watched very closely. Plus, my programming
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background has made understanding the technology side of the issues much easier. Moreover, as a new communications medium, it raises numerous First Amendment issues, and dovetails very nicely with many of my broader legal interests.”
Ku, who has written a great deal about many subjects, including cyberspace law, currently is working on an intellectual property article examining efforts to extend protection to digital information products from a constitutional perspective. He explains that his diverse areas of interest – race and the law, state constitutional law, federal courts and civil procedure, anti-discrimination law and antitrust law – actually have a common thread. “As a scholar, litigator, and advocate, I am most interested in the relationship between government power and individual liberty,” Ku says. “That intersection occurs at many different levels and in many different forms.”
As
an undergraduate student of Political Science at Brown University, Ku was the recipient of a Ford Foundation research grant. He also won the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize for best Political Science thesis. The captain of Brown’s varsity fencing team, Ku also was a ranking champion in the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Association and the NCAA Championships. He kept up his fencing – competing and instructing – for several years after undergraduate school.
Later,
as a law student at New York University, Ku distinguished himself as the recipient of several fellowships, served as teaching assistant to Dean John Sexton, and visited for a year at Harvard Law School before graduating from NYU cum laude.
respects, returning home. He grew up across the river in Long Island. He speaks fluent Chinese – Mandarin was his first language – and like many children of immigrants, learned English in school and by watching television, “with a heavy emphasis on television.”That, he says, may account for the lack of a Long Island accent.
SOLANGEL MALDONADO will join the Seton Hall faculty in January to teach Family Law, Tor ts and Critical Latino Theory. Raised in Washington Heights and the Bronx, Maldonado commuted to Brooklyn Tech where she majored in Civil Engineering. But Maldonado believes she Solangel Maldonado began leaning toward law as a career even then. “Civil engineering was sort of a lonely life,” she said.“Working with designs and blueprints, and solving mathematical equations, I was alone. I needed more interaction with other people. Teaching allows me that.”
Maldonado went on to graduate from Columbia College, where she majored in Political Science, and Columbia Law School where she was the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the recipient of a Human Rights Fellowship. Active in a number of organizations, Maldonado also served as Managing Editor of the Law School’s Journal of Gender and the Law.
Following
graduation, Ku clerked for Third Circuit Judge Timothy K. Lewis before becoming an Associate at first Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, LLP and then Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, LLP in Washington, DC.
In his spare time, Ku enjoys golf, martial arts, ballroom dancing, chess, red wine and gourmet cooking. He also enjoys Broadway musicals and plays piano. By moving to New Jersey from San Diego, Ku is, in some
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Although Maldonado’s legal work has covered many areas, including environmental litigation, capital punishment and arbitration, one of her primary interests is family law. While an intern at the Family Advocacy Clinic in New York, Maldonado represented biological and foster parents in Family Court proceedings. As an intern in the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society, she worked on
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child-abuse and neglect cases. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Maldonado worked for the Vera Institute for Social Justice conducting a study of the Family Court system.
After graduating from law school, Maldonado became an Associate with the New York law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP where she practiced general commercial litigation. She then clerked for Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., in the District of New Jersey, before joining Sidley & Austin’s New York office. Maldonado’s work at Sidley included environmental, contract and business tort litigation. She also worked on a number of pro bono matters, including two capital murder appeals.
Not surprisingly, Maldonado says, she has met many Seton Hall people – current students, alumni, faculty and administrators alike – who “genuinely like being there.” Maldonado notes that her co-worker, Marc Larkins ’97, went to Seton Hall Preparatory School and Seton Hall University before coming to Seton Hall Law School where he finished at the top of his class. “I understand that Marc’s obvious love for Seton Hall is not unique,” she said. Maldonado
speaks fluent Spanish and is studying French. An avid reader, she is a member of a book club along with several friends from law school. Maldonado runs and rollerblades to raise money for multiple sclerosis research.
In
her spare time, Maldonado mentors college students through the Columbia College Black and Latino Alumni Mentoring Program, a program Judge Greenaway helped establish. Maldonado also works with New York-area law students through the Puerto Rican Legal and Education Defense Fund (PRLEDF) Latino Law Student Attorney Network. She is on the Board of the Dominican Bar Association (DBA), an affiliate of the Hispanic National Bar Association, which operates a legal clinic for members of New York’s Washington Heights community.
Maldonado looks forward to coming to Seton Hall for many reasons. She is impressed by the Law School’s emphasis on teaching and by the student-oriented nature of the Law School which shows in many ways. Anyone who has walked the hallways of Seton Hall Law School knows that it is a culture where, as an old popular TV theme song goes, “everybody knows your name.” That experience was not lost on Maldonado, who also noted that, to the Law School administration, student “buy in” is important enough to warrant interviews with the Student Bar Association for new professors.
Daniel Solove
DANIEL SOLOVE is a more bookish fellow than you might expect of an Internet law expert. He owns some 1500 books and confesses to a “book-buying addiction.” And with law journal articles titled “Faith Profaned,” “The Darkest Domain” and “Fictions About Fictions,” to name a few, you just know there is a story there. It is not surprising to learn that Solove was an English Literature major at Washington University where he distinguished himself as an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa and an Editor of the campus political journal, Washington Ripple.
Asked about literature as preparation for the study of law and the connection between law and literature, Solove waxes poetic. “Literature is important for understanding law because it teaches a certain way of
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thinking – one that is synthetic, creative, and comfortable with ambiguity and ambivalence.”
“Lawyers look too readily for clear answers, but often law doesn’t have these answers, for it is applied to social conduct which cannot always be reduced to formulas and frameworks,” he explains. “Literature taught me how to understand the implications of different methods of interpretation and the profound power of narrative, symbols, metaphors, and rhetoric in the law. Indeed, much legal change is inspired by a single narrative or symbol rather than systematic, abstract conclusions. A large amount of law is about facts, and literature teaches about the ways in which we perceive facts. Legal reasoning often is an exercise in analogizing new situations to old ones, of understanding our changing world in terms of existing narratives and metaphors. In short, I think that my background in literature is my greatest asset as a lawyer and legal scholar.”
In the spring, when Solove teaches Criminal Law and Law and Literature, his students may look forward to his insights into Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Kafka’s The Trial, books that he cites as examples of “the greatest works of philosophy and literature.”
This fall, Solove is teaching Privacy Law, which explores information-privacy issues such as public records, medical records, patient-physician confidentiality, surveillance, privacy and the media, e-mail privacy, privacy and cyberspace and privacy in the workplace.
Solove always loved learning and wanted to become a teacher even before he wanted to become a lawyer. He discovered his love for the law while working in his father’s Lancaster, Pennsylvania law office during his high school summers. At that time, his father had a general, solo practice in criminal law, torts, real estate, wills, and small business law.
“Seeing
law from this side showed me its human face,” Solove says. “In contrast to the interesting, yet often abstract large-scale legal issues I would later encounter at Arnold & Porter, the day was spent using law as a tool to help people fix their problems.
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At my dad’s firm, discovery in a case could actually fit in one file folder and trials lasted for a day or two.”
After
graduating from Washingon University, Solove went to Yale Law School with a career in academia in mind. At Yale, Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize, and served as an Editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
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law school, Solove clerked with the Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, DC where he later became an Associate at Arnold & Porter. He then began a second clerkship with the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena.
Although he says the weather in Pasadena is perfect, Solove had no problem moving his 1500 books to New York. A sports fan, he now cheers for the Seton Hall Pirates. Solove, who has lived in virtually every region of the country and traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, considers the New York area “the most fascinating place to live in the world.” He loves all types of ethnic food and is a fan of pop culture, including film and television. Solove enjoys reading and writing fiction and non-fiction and playing tennis, Scrabble and chess.
BAHER AZMY is a
Baher Azmy
big believer in learning by doing. As a visiting professor of the Civil Litigation Clinic in the Center for Social Justice last academic year, he supervised eight third-year students each semester in handling all aspects of civil cases in state and federal court.
Azmy, who became a full-time faculty member in the fall, shares what he has learned about teaching students to think like lawyers. “Students have to learn to be self-conscious and self-critical since every decision they make has strategic implications,” he says. “They have to force themselves to consider various options and anticipate strategic changes as the facts constantly evolve.”
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says he relates well to students in this non-hierarchical setting. “I can understand how they must find this process mystifying in some ways,” he says. In a law school that is known for its student-oriented culture, it is not surprising to find that professors treat students like peers. If Azmy disagrees with the way a student proposes to handle a case, he is willing to be convinced that their course of action is the way to go, which is the way lawyers work together in real life.
“I’ve
always been attracted to the idea of making social change through litigation and advancing causes important to one case to serve a broader principle,” Azmy says. “You get to see that a lot in this kind of work. One good example is the consumer fraud cases we’ve won that, in effect, force unscrupulous credit and mortgage lenders to change their practices.”
Azmy earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude with distinction in American History from the University of Pennsylvania before pursuing a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. As a law student at New York University, he distinguished himself as the Root-Tilden-Snow Public Interest Scholar and as a Staff Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. He became a member of the Order of the Coif upon graduation.
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clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the Third Circuit. Prior to that, he had worked for the Public Citizen Litigation Group and was an Associate at the New York law firm of Willkie Farr and Gallagher.
After just one year at Seton Hall, Azmy seems very much at home in the Law School’s Center for Social Justice that serves more than 1,000 indigent people in Newark every year. Established in the early 1990s, the Center provides hands-on legal experience for Seton Hall Law students and impor tant legal ser vices to New Jersey’s under-served.
“Everybody gets to experience most of the litigation practice – everything from interviewing clients to filing complaints to trying the case,” Professor Azmy says. “My students get to experience what it’s like to communicate with different clients and with clients who are very different than themselves.”
In
his work, Professor Azmy enjoys the “mentorship and interaction with very smart, inquisitive students” and the opportunity to remain active in and very committed to public service.
“Seton Hall’s Center for Social Justice is a supportive Azmy
has become very involved in a couple of cases involving immigration labor law and abuse of domestic workers. He gets most excited about cases where “the harm is very tangible.”
environment,” Professor Azmy says, “and Newark is a great public interest community.”
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LouANDREOZZI by JANA ANDERSON CARDOZA
The View From the Top Lou Andreozzi, a 1984 graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law, recently was named President and Chief Executive Officer of LEXIS, one of the nation’s leading legal publishers. As the head of this sprawling corporation, Andreozzi is responsible for the family of products and services consisting of five leading legal information brands, including LEXIS online research, Shepard’s citations, Matthew Bender treatises, Martindale-Hubbell legal reference and MICHIE indexed and annotated statutes.
“It all started with one little job posting,” Andreozzi says. He explains that he responded to a job posting and met with the general counsel of a small publishing firm in Seton Hall’s Career Services office the spring of his third year in law school. “I started with a 100-person publishing house, and just six months out of law school, there I was negotiating $100 million deals.”
When Andreozzi’s firm was bought by Reed Elsevier, the AngloDutch publisher, Andreozzi grew right along with the business, moving from New Jersey to Ohio and back again. He became Assistant General Counsel for Gordon Publications in 1984 and then Deputy General Counsel at Elsevier U.S. Holdings, Inc. He later served as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for Reed Elsevier Medical Publishing before joining LEXIS-NEXIS as Vice President and General Counsel upon its acquisition by Reed Elsevier. While serving in that post, Andreozzi was appointed Publisher of the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory in July 1996. In addition, Andreozzi retained his role as Vice President and General Counsel for LEXIS-NEXIS. In April 1997, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Martindale-Hubbell, the nation’s leading biographical publisher for the legal profession. Andreozzi served in that capacity for three years before becoming President and CEO of LEXIS.
But internet technology did become big and with the foresight of management, LEXIS has been at the forefront of the new technology. Last year, LEXIS redefined the legal research process with the introduction of the lexis.com online research system. Since the introduction of lexis.com, well over half of all searches are done via the web. This past July, LEXIS took a bold step and introduced lexisOne, a free web site offering premiere LEXIS information at the American Bar Association convention in New York. Andreozzi talks enthusiastically about the “enhanced business model” behind the new products that is the foundation for the corporation’s future business. The keywords are “user-friendly” and “accessibility.” Lexis.com is constantly enhancing its service to make for a user-friendly experience. The introduction of lexisOne broadens the accessibility of LEXIS to small law practitioners and the solo practitioner. With lexisOne, users get five years of federal and state court case law for free as well as hundreds of forms and easy access to 17,000 web sites containing legal information. “Think like a lawyer”
With
an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Andreozzi is well equipped to chart the future course for LEXIS. But he credits his legal background for much of his success.
The business of the future
Today, Andreozzi commutes to his Miamisburg, Ohio office three days a week from his home in Rockaway Township in Bergen County, New Jersey. Andreozzi’s world is one of e-mail and teleconferencing, a fast-track lifestyle for a futuristic kind of business – a business Andreozzi knows inside and out. While perched at the helm of Martindale-Hubbell, Andreozzi took the 132-year old company and brought it into the technology age by transforming it into a web company.
“My legal training has both internal and external significance,” Andreozzi says. “Internally, it helps to think like a lawyer in making business decisions. After practicing law for 12 years, I know firsthand what products and services an attorney needs. Having been a General Counsel who used to participate in millions of dollars worth of deals, when I go out to meet lawyers, it helps that I can relate to their experience.” Andreozzi
Andreozzi
explains that since Martindale-Hubbell introduced lawyers.com, then martindale.com just four years ago, about half of the 3 million searches conducted each month are done on the web.
“When Reed Elsevier acquired LEXIS-NEXIS in ‘94, we all had to become acclimated to the technology,” Andreozzi says. “We, in management, knew it was critical to understand the nature of the business. Still, we couldn’t have known that [doing business on] the Internet would become so big.” 28
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explains that the experience of having been a law student, too, has provided helpful insight as LEXIS moves more and more aggressively into the law school mar ket. “It helps in figuring out the things you need to do to get law students and professor s to tr y your product.” One of Andreozzi’s business priorities is to make LEXIS the research tool of choice at the nation’s law schools. For that reason, he talks a lot about “law school preference.” And Seton Hall Law School is proud that this illustrious alum, like so many others, ultimately prefers his alma mater.
INTRODUCING
RAYMOND
Brown by JANA ANDERSON CARDOZA
As a Consulting Professor & Research Scholar, Raymond Brown is teaching Professional Responsibility at Seton Hall Law School this fall. In the spring, he will teach Criminal Law. No stranger to Seton Hall, Brown has taught International Criminal Law at the School of Diplomacy & International Relations and in Seton Hall Law School’s Cairo program for the past three summers, sharing the teaching with Professors Elizabeth Defeis and John McMahon and Seton Hall alumna Wanda Akin ’82.
A Partner, along with his father, in the Newark law firm of Brown & Brown, he is perhaps best known for his work in the trial of former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan. With a background that includes court appearances in 12 states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Kenya, El Salvador, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, Brown brings unique perspectives on international law as well as trial advocacy, legal ethics and race and the criminal justice to the classroom. “Studying law requires a serious level of commitment and a sea change in the thought process,” he says. “In law school, one needs to develop a different set of analytical skills to understand how disputes are resolved. However, this should parallel spiritual insight into why society requires non-violent and just resolutions of conflicts.”
Raymond Brown Sr., who made his name as a trial attorney and leader of the African American community, continues to practice law today at the age of 85. Raymond Brown, Jr.’s daughter, Elena, 23, is a graduate of Boston College, currently working as a paralegal in Atlanta. His son, Chad, 25, is a graduate of Amherst, who is now in Minnesota pursuing post-graduate studies in Advertising.
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news events from his front-row seat as a lawyer/journalist. As a Court TV Anchor, his popularity soared during the live coverage of the International Criminal Tribunal for the country formerly known as Yugoslavia, the first international war crimes trial since Nuremberg.Today, Brown continues to host “Inside the Law,” a syndicated public affairs show. He also serves as guest commentator and hosts shows on a number of stations including MSNBC, CNN and BET. And every Sunday morning, he can be seen on New Jersey Network (NJN) as the host of “Due Process,” a five-time, Emmy-award winning show examining breaking legal issues across the state.
notes that his family has historically worked as social change agents in fields other than law. “My grandmother, Elizabeth Brown, founded a mission church in Jersey City,” he says.“She founded Christ the King in Johnny White’s funeral parlor.” It was the first black Catholic Church, an alternative for black Catholics who weren’t permitted to worship in the white churches. “I’m sure Elizabeth would be pleased with three recent developments,” mused Brown, “my daughter graduating from a Jesuit College, my visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem this summer, and my teaching at Seton Hall.”
Brown’s journalistic roots date back to the early 1960s when
When Brown talks about teaching, it sounds a little like he,
he was a reporter for The Jersey Journal, the daily newspaper of his hometown, Jersey City. Upon graduation from Columbia University with a degree in History, Brown worked as a reporter for New York’s Amsterdam News. Then, he pursued a law degree at the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley and devoted himself to law practice, following in the footsteps of his father.
too, has heard a calling.“As Justice Pashman once said,“Justice is a secular faith.’ ” Brown says. “I’m interested in seeing the courthouse and the judicial process open to everyone. The justice system is arguably the most important institution in our democracy. As a lawyer and a law professor, I see it as my responsibility to do what I can to ensure that the justice system is honest and that it meets our needs.”
For several years, Brown has analyzed major legal and political
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Remembering
Professor ANDREA The arc of any law school is driven by
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the students who study there and the professors who teach them. Professor Andrea Catania dedicated her professional career at Seton Hall to ensuring that those who comprise this extraordinary community were the brightest, the best, and the most caring.
Andrea stood – not like a colossus but like a mother hen – astride the two gateways to Seton Hall. For years, she chaired the Admissions Committee, which selects the next generation of Seton Hall lawyers. But the word “chair” does not begin to capture the intensity and devotion she brought to every aspect of the process. She worked with everyone connected with the Admissions Office, rolling up her sleeves and doing every part of the job, including meeting with applicants, reviewing files, formulating policy, reviewing procedures, and attending forums, receptions, and open houses. Those of us who would rather spend a Saturday raking leaves or watching football would try (usually unsuccessfully) to dodge Andrea as the Fall Open House, Minority Student Day, or Admitted Student Brunch loomed on the horizon. Andrea made Admissions her own, and Seton Hall is what it is today in large part because of her. As Orientation began this August, for the first time in more than a decade, Andrea could not greet the class she had brought in.
Andrea did not chair the Faculty Appointments Committee. She was much more powerful and influential than that. As the most active member of that Committee, Andrea was critical in bringing to Seton Hall the young scholars and teachers who have transformed the institution in the last decade.
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Again, her fingerprints were over all aspects of the process, from the initial review of resumes to arranging screening interviews, to deciding what disciplines and candidates should be presented to the faculty. She was also a master of the “end game,” ensuring that Seton Hall’s first choices made Seton Hall their own first choice. Whether it was her phone calls, “just saying hello,” or arranging dinners or interviews for spouses, Andrea never forgot – or let her colleagues forget – that the Law School is no better than the teachers in its classrooms, and she always looked for the best. But she was also a mistress of politics, the art of the possible, and in building the faculty at Seton Hall she was indefatigable in increasing
institution. And Andrea’s caring was infectious: it was, quite simply, impossible not to care about what Andrea cared about, not to worry about what concerned her, not to act when she was pressing for action.
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the representation of women on the faculty. More than once, a list of candidates for a particular slot was chosen precisely to ensure that the faculty could not make a mistake on that front. And it didn’t.
The mother hen image is advised. Andrea’s style was unique. In these, and other endeavors, she was an artist in “fretwork.” Andrea fretted, stewed, and worried over every step in every process. Some misunderstood this as betokening anxiety; those who knew her well realized that it manifested how much she cared – for the process, for the people, for the
cannot capture Professor Andrea Catania in a few paragraphs. Andrea was a daughter, sister, friend, and in all of these roles she was truly exceptional. In her professional life, she was a thoughtful lawyer, a committed teacher, and a strong scholar. Anyone who met Andrea in any of these capacities will not forget her. But perhaps the greatest tribute to Andrea is the generations of students and teachers who have come to Seton Hall because of her – whether or not they ever knew it.
William D. William D. Perez joined Seton Hall Law School on July 31 as Dean of Admissions & Financial Resource Management. Dean Perez comes from the City University of New York, where he was Director of Admissions. He previously served in senior-level admissions positions at St. Thomas University School of Law, Wagner College, and The George Washington University. Dean Perez has been very active with the Law School Admission Council, the Middle States Association of College Registrars and Officers of Admission, and the New Jersey-New York Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers.
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Robert Diab
– A Law School Legend
In June, Professor Robert A. Diab retired from the Law School after 42 years of extraordinary service. Professor Diab has been at the center of the Law School’s life for the vast majority of its 49 years. Always an extremely popular teacher, Diab was instrumental in leading the school through its adolescence, serving through the years as Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, and Acting Dean. Cognizant of his invaluable contributions, the University bestowed upon him its highest service honor – the McQuaid Medal.
Though
appreciative of his countless contributions to the Law School over the last four decades, Diab’s colleagues and students will remember him most for his incomparable classroom performances. A model of clear thinking and lucid analysis, Diab’s urbane wit and ability to turn a phrase are what make his style so unique. A gifted raconteur, he has a wonderful ability to tell a story, to quote Shakespeare, and to enjoy a good conversation.
D iab arrived at the Law School with a background different from most of his contemporaries. Born and raised in Bombay, India, he attended a private boarding school in the Himalayas before coming to the United States where he attended Fordham College and Law School. Prior to coming to Seton Hall Law School, Diab was a barrister and member of Lincoln’s Inn of Court in London. Almost 50 years later, Diab is widely known for his expertise in wills and trusts. He was influential in redrafting New Jersey’s probate code and continues to be an important source of expertise in the state bar. Never one to stay long in a single place, Diab has taught as a Visiting Professor at many law schools, including St. Louis University, Washington University,Wayne State, Loyola of Los Angeles and Rutgers, Newark. Diab’s love of travel frequently takes him even farther afield. He has taught in the Law School’s international program in Italy and, for the past four years, has been a member of the faculty in the Law School’s international program in Cairo.
Diab’s future plans may include a little more spare time, but not much. When not playing the world traveler, Diab will continue his long association with the editorial board of the New Jersey Law Journal and teach an occasional course.Turning a new page in his Law School career, he will play a more prominent role in the Law School’s alumni and development activities. Dean Hobbs is grateful for Diab’s willingness to step into this new role, commenting that “no one knows more about our Law School’s alums than Bob Diab. He has a special bond with so many of our graduates – I can think of no better link to our School.”
In addition to his Seton Hall family, Diab, who resides in Summit, has a large one of his own. He is the father of six – five daughters and one son – and the grandfather of four girls.
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EDWARD
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Edward Hendrickson has retired after 33 years as an essential part of the Law School’s administration. For decades, under six deans and two acting deans, Ed Hendrickson was Mr. Admissions, and the Law School’s roving ambassador. He developed relationships with thousands of students who would later become Seton Hall Law School graduates, and continued many of those friendships into their careers. Wherever in America alumni of the Law School might gather, it is likely that Ed Hendrickson can be found among them, often in his trademark white suit and hat, carrying his ubiquitous camera that has documented so much of the Law School’s history.
Born and raised in Malvern, PA, Hendrickson served as
key role in implementing a strategy to bring New Jersey
a Navy medic attached to the Marines in 1945-47 and 1950-52. After graduating from the University of South Carolina in 1963, he stayed there as Director of University Affairs and the University Center. In 1966 he accepted a civil service appointment to West Point as Manager of Cadet Facilities and Director of Programs for the Corp of Cadets. Here Hendrickson met Seton Hall’s Fr. Michael Kelly, who convinced him to apply for a position at the University. (Here he also met Mike Krzyzewski, with whom he has remained good friends down the years. The Duke coach is only one of Hendrickson’s amazingly wide and varied circle of friends.)
residents attending out-of-state colleges back to their
In August
Hendrickson has a strong affection for Seton Hall that
1967, Hendrickson became the Director of Student Affairs, the Student Center, and Special Events and Concerts. Five years later, he was asked to lead the Law School’s Office of Career Planning and Placement. Within the year, Hendrickson assumed responsibility for the Law School’s financial aid operation and, shortly thereafter, Admissions.
1973 was a time when Seton Hall Law School enrolled almost as many evening as day students. It was a time when women represented fewer than 8 percent of law school enrollment. Throughout the years, Hendrickson saw it all – enrollment highs and lows, as well as the occasional recruitment wars emblematic of the law school competitiveness in the Northeast Corridor. He initiated Seton Hall’s travel and recruitment efforts, starting with visits to Lehigh, Lafayette, Muhlenberg, and Moravian, then expanding to New England and Washington, DC . Recruitment in the Mid-West and West soon followed. In addition, Hendrickson played a
home state for law school.
By the early 90s, Hendrickson’s hard work and one-onone approach paid off. Not only did the native New Jerseyans return to Seton Hall Law, but also the number of out-of-state applicants increased significantly. GPAs and LSATs improved dramatically, as did the caliber of the undergraduate institutions from which Seton Hall Law students came. More important, Hendrickson’s student-centered approach became the gold standard for the entire Law School, laying the foundation for its consistently high student satisfaction ratings.
extends from admissions to athletics. Indeed, his recruiting schedule frequently bore a resemblance to the basketball schedule. His loyalty and dedication to Seton Hall was recognized when, in 1987, he was named the recipient of the McQuaid Medal by the University. Although now retired, Hendrickson promises to continue his involvement, and to continue to arrive, camera in hand, to record the impor tant events in the life of the Law School. Thank you, Ed Hendrickson, for being such an important part of Seton Hall’s history.
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Class NEWS & NOTES ‘60s Hon. Dennis L. McGill ’65, of Jersey City, was sworn in to the newly created position of Presiding Judge of Municipal Courts for Hudson County. Robert J. Tarte ’69, of Westfield, was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Community Access Unlimited, an Elizabeth– based non-profit social service agency.
‘70s W. Cary Edwards ’70, of Oakland, a Partner in the Hawthorne firm of Edwards and Caldwell, received the Decus Pro Servitio Communitatis award presented by the church of St. Anne, Fair Lawn, on April 15. Kenneth M. Lodge ’74, of Winnetka, IL, joined the Chicago firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook, as a Partner in the Financial Services Group. Lodge will concentrate in commercial litigation, loan restructuring, creditor rights and insolvency matters. Hon. Joel A. Pisano ’74, of Spring Lake, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Pisano was congratulated by fellow alumni judges and clerks at Seton Hall Law School’s Fourth Annual Judges Reception held May 31. Paul E. Strapp ’74, of Belle Mead, was named the Assistant General Counsel of ADT Security Systems Inc. of
INN OF COURT Applications are being accepted for the 2000-2002 Seton Hall University School of Law Alumni Association Inn of Court. The Inn of Court provides new lawyers (with less than five years’ experience) an incomparable opportunity to develop trial practice skills. The program concentrates on discovery and trial practice, with continuous opportunity for performance and critique. For an annual fee of $300, Inn of Court participants meet monthly for the first year and bi-monthly over the course of the second year. Mentorship is provided by experienced trial judges and lawyers. For more information or an application, contact Gina Fondetto at (973)-642-8587 or email fondetgi@shu.edu.
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Moorestown. Bruce R. Volpe ’74, of Mahwah, was named Partner at the Newark firm of Stryker, Tams & Dill effective January 1, 2000. Christine V. Bator ’75, of Princeton Junction, was recently honored by the Executive Women of New Jersey at the Salute to the Policy Makers Awards Dinner. Bator is a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Counsel to the Princeton firm of Couter, Kobert, Laufer & Cohen, P.C., which specializes in corporate counseling, mergers and acquisitions, health law and finance. Karl J. Rohrbacher ’76, of Hackensack, was named Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Shuttlesoft Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of German software manufacturer Shuttlesoft AG. Joseph F. Andolino ’78, of Charlotte, NC, was named Vice President of Tax of the B.F. Goodrich Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bradley M. Jones ’78, of Wayzata, MN, will become President effective January 2001of the Harmonie Group, an affiliation of independent U.S. law firms. Harmonie Group has affiliations with Canadian Litigation Counsel and Insurolaw, its European counterpart. Maria Schmidt ’78, of Reading Township, was appointed a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation. Schmidt is an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University and is a Scoring Director for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Amilkar Velez-Lopez ’79, of Newark, recently became Municipal Court Judge in Newark.
‘80s Mark F. Armstrong ’81, of Findlay, OH, has been named Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Tire Division of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Brian J. Mullen ’81, of Red Bank, was appointed Borough Attorney of Matawan. Lynn Fontaine Newsome ’81, of Short Hills, was named Chair of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Newsome is a Partner in the firm of Donahue, Braun, Hagen, Klein & Newsome. James P. Hadden ’82, of Philadelphia, PA, has joined the firm of Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing. Hadden will practice in the areas of product liability, toxic tort, premises liability, construction and other civil litigation. Victor Angeline III ’83, of East Brunswick, was elected Co-Chair
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of the Construction and Public Contract Law Section of the the New Jersey Staff Counsel Office of Government New Jersey State Bar Association. Angeline serves as General Employees Insurance Company. Sandra M. Iammatteo Counsel at M. Gordon Construction Co. in Linden. Jules ’88, has joined Trenton-based Sterns & Weinroth as an Farkas ’83, of Cherry Hill, has been named Counsel to Associate. Prior to this, Iammatteo served as Deputy Mason, Griffin & Pierson in Princeton. Ellen O’Connell ’83, Attorney General with the New Jersey Department of Law of Basking Ridge, has been appointed Secretary of the New and Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice. Thomas B. Jersey State Bar Foundation. O’Connell is a labor and Considine ’89, of Spring Lake, was appointed Vice President employment attorney with the Newark office of Skadden, of Gourmet and Industry Relations for Metropolitan Life Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Christina Hindley ’84, of Insurance, New York, NY. Mark A. Montana ’89, of Trenton, has joined the Healthcare Chaplaincy, a non profit, Washington Township, was admitted to practice before the multi-faith organization. Hindley, a Presbyterian minister, also U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Montana is with Norris, serves as Staff Chaplain at White Plains Hospital. John J. McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., where he practices intellectual Kapp ’84, of Clark, was certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by property law with an emphasis on patent prosecution, the New Jersey Supreme Court in February 2000. Kapp is an trademark, copyright and technology licensing matters. Associate at the Rutherford firm of David E. Rehe & Barbara A. Ryan ’89, of New York, NY, was appointed Associates. James D. Ray ’84, of Basking Ridge, has become Counsel to McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney in the Environmental, Safety and Health Practice Group. Scott C. Riley ’84, of Voorhees, was named General Counsel and head of U.S. operations for the Kwelm Companies, a group of United Kingdom companies with operations in the United States. John P. Belardo ’85, of Basking Ridge, was named a member in the Warren firm of DiFrancesco, Kunzman, Coley, Yospin, Bernstein & Bateman, specializing in municipal land use law. Cynthia J. Celentano ’85, of Oakland, has joined Legal Concierge Inc. as the New Jersey/ New York District Manager. Richard M. Marano ’85, of Oxford, CT, was awarded the Humanitarian Service Award by the Anderson Boys’ Club of Waterbury at the19th Annual Service Awards and Scholarship Shown here at the First Annual Young Alumni Night are members of Dinner. Marano also was appointed to the Board of the newly established Young Alumni Council of the Seton Hall School Bar Examiners of the National Board of Trial of Law Alumni Association. In the front row (from left to right) are Advocacy. Marano is a Partner in the Waterbury, CT, Director of Law Alumni Relations Jeanne Marano, Mariann Crincoli ’94, firm of Marano & Diamond and has co-authored a Victor A.Afanador ’98, Chair Diane Ruccia ’94 and Frederic J. Regenye book, Growing Up Italian and American in Waterbury. ’95. In the back row (from left to right) are Jodi Hudson Anders ’96, Gina Pontoriero ’99, Shoshana Schiff ’98, Mara Zazzali ’98 and Joanne M. Sarubbi ’85, of Wyckoff, presented a Christopher H. Westrick ’97. The networking event drew more than workshop entitled “What Every Woman Should 250 young alumni to Don Pepe’s Restaurant in February. The second Know About Estate Planning” at the New Jersey Annual Young Alumni Night will be on Thursday, November 30 from Association of Women Business Owners annual 7 - 9 p.m. at the Newark Club. conference. Sarubbi serves as Counsel to the West Orange firm of Bendit Weinstock, P.A. Steven J. Sloan ’86, of Somerville, a Partner with the New Brunswick Chair of the New Leadership Group for the United Hospital firm of Siegel & Siegel, P.C., has been appointed to the Fund of New York. Ryan is a Partner in the New York firm of Hillsborough Township Board of Education. Joseph T. Aaronson, Rappaport, Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP. Calabria ’88, of Ramsey, was named Managing Attorney for
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‘90s Richard W. English ’90, of Oakhurst, has opened a practice in Ocean Township. English serves as Municipal Attorney for Ocean Township. John E. Keefe Jr. ’90, of Allenhurst, was appointed to the American Board of Trial
Shown here at last spring’s Annual Alumni Dinner are members of the class of 1975 celebrating their 25th reunion. In the front row (from left to right) are Janet Burak Melchione, Richard H. Steen and Nathanya Simon. In the back row (from left to right) are Christine V. Bator, Christine Sullivan,Thomas W. Matthews, Marguerite Mary Schaffer and Pat Keefe.
Advocates. Keefe is a Partner in the firm of Lynch, Martin, Kroll, specializing in negligence and product liability matters as head of the firm’s Plaintiffs Department. Kevin P. Kelly ’90, of New Milford, was named Par tner in Her ten, Bur stein, Sher idan, Cevasco, Bottinelli & Litt, LLC . James J. Panzini ’90, of Spring Lake, was appointed President of Nature’s Choice Corporation of Lyndhurst. Donald E. Taylor ’90, of Trenton, was named Partner in Wilentz, Goldman & Spitze. Mariellen Dugan ’91, of Cranford, has joined the law office of Kevin H. Marino,
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P.C., with offices in Newark and New York City. Dugan, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, specializes in white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. Nancy A. Kist ’91, of Bayonne, was named General Counsel to the Local Redevelopment Authority, located in Bayonne, which promotes the development of the Military Ocean Terminal. James J. Cutro ’93, of Cranford, has started a practice with offices in Mountainside and New York City. Cutro practices labor, employment and entertainment law. Barry E. Moscowitz ’93, of West Orange, has started the general practice firm of Moscowitz & Novin, LLP, in Bloomfield. Mary H. Casey ’93, of New Brunswick, was appointed Municipal Judge in South Brunswick. Casey also maintains a private practice in New Brunswick. Denise M. Crump ’94, of Plainsboro, has joined McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney as an Associate in the Insurance Services Practice Group. Gregory W. Fortsch ’94, of Arlington, VA, has joined the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Stacey M. Geurds ’94, of Trenton, has transferred to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office trial team. Peter Tu ’94, of Cedar Grove, has become Director of Intellectual Property with Physiome Sciences in Princeton, where he will develop intellectual property strategies. Thomas C. Conniff ’95, of Pelham Manor, NY, has joined McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney as an Associate in the Defense Litigation Group. Christopher H. DeGrezia ’95, of Princeton, has joined the Princeton office of Drinker Biddle & Shanley as an Associate in the Real Estate Group of the Business and Finance Department. Miki Nishimura ’95, of Manhattan, was transferred to the Office of the General Counsel of Merrill Lynch Japan Incorporated in Tokyo. Nishimura serves as Counsel in the Law, Compliance and Regulatory Relations Division. Robert A. Pelaia ’95, of Gainesville, FL, has been appointed Associate General Counsel for the University of Florida. Pelaia provides a wide range of legal support services for the College of Medicine on federal and state health regulatory laws and regulations. Scott W. Sawyer ’95, of New London, CT, has relocated his law practice to the Jill S. Sawyer Building in New London. Sawyer concentrates in the areas of real estate, personal injury, land use and nuclear and environmental matter s. Tara P. D’Orsi ’96, of Hazlet, was presented with the Rising Star Award by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association at its annual Woman of the Year Luncheon. The award is given to professionals in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry
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Class NEWS & NOTES who exemplify outstanding qualities such as leadership, initiative, team-building, innovation and ser vice. D’Orsi is an Associate with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and is an LL.M. candidate in Seton Hall’s Health Law Program. James B. Johnston ’96, of Union, was elected Vice-Chair of the Newark St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Johnston also was named Co-Chair of the Seton Hall Law School 2000 Red Mass Committee. Jonathan N. Marcus ’96, of Mahwah, joined the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, in New York. Brian M. Donnelly ’97, of Neshanic, has become Of Counsel to the firm of Perrotta, Fraser & Forrester. Shannon M. Kasley ’97, of Sparta, has joined the Washington, D.C., office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue as Litigation Associate. Christian E. Samay ’97, of Montclair, was named General Counsel of Exario Networks. Samay previously worked as an Associate with McCarter & English. Alan A. Bornstein ’98, of Westwood, was named Patent Counsel of Unilever U.S. Inc. Vasiliki Pagidas ’98, of Lyndhurst, has joined the firm of Pellettieri, Rabstein & Altman as an Associate, concentrating in the areas of worker’s compensation law and social security disability.
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Michael A. Baldasarre ’99, of Glen Ridge, has joined McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney as an Associate in the defense litigation group. Douglas Berman M.S.J. ’99, of Manhattan, has been appointed Policy Analyst with The Children’s Health Fund in Manhattan. Joan Olawski-Steiner ’99, of Warren, has joined McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney as an Associate. Jonathan Siegel ’99, of Manalapan has joined the Manhattan firm of Schulte, Roth & Zabel, where he concentrates in the areas of securities and venture capital transactions. Annette Tantillo M.S.J. ’99 of Franklin Park, has been named Senior Consultant at Bessler Consulting - Health Care and Finance, North Brunswick. Kelly Duhart M.S.J. ’00 of Hillsborough, has joined Verizon Wireless as a Senior Technical Analyst. Mia Phifer M.S.J. ’00 of Union, has been appointed Director of Performance Improvement at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan.
More than 100 alumni judges and law clerks attended last spring’s Fourth Annual Judges Reception. Shown here (from left to right) are the Honorable Lawrence DeBello ’82, the Honorable John A. McLaughlin ’65, the Honorable Kevin G. Callahan ’72, the Honorable John A. O’Shaughnessy ’73, the Honorable Elaine L. Davis ’72, the Honorable Thomas P. Zampino ’74, Judges Committee Chair, and the Honorable Camille M. Kenny ’84.
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Marriages Joellen Kelleher ’94 to Richard Wall John Uhlenhake ’94 to M. Jean Connolly Amy S. Cleghorn ’96 to Jeffrey S. Park ’96 Allison N. Blender ’97 to Christian E. Samay ’97 Thomas C. Martin ’97 to Barbara M. Bini ’99 Veronica A. Roche ’98 to Thomas A. McMillian Jr. Peter G. Bracuti ’99 to Melissa Miele James M. Foerst ’99 to Cara L. Herrick ’99 Donna Vigor ’99 to Rob Payesko
Jerard A. Gonzalez ’92 and Cathleen Calligy
Professor Jon Romberg to Denise Rodgers
Gonzalez ’92, a son, Eric James on August 6, 1999. Donna Frey Alkin ’93 and Lewis Alkin, a son, Ryan Joseph on March 31. Nancy Shore DiLella ’93 and Paul A DiLella ’93, a
Births
daughter, Lauren Anne on December 29, 1998, and a son,
Sandra P. Hawthorne-Tormey ’87 and Michael R.
John Paul on May 6. Renee L. McCaskey ’93 and
Tormey, a daughter, Shannon Rose on March 2, 1998.
Anthony S. McCaskey ’93, a daughter, Kaitlyn
Charles Kenny ’89 and Stephanie Kenny ’90, a daughter,
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Rachel Elizabeth on January 2. Michael S. Miller ’91 and
Germann ’95 and George J. Germann Jr. ’95, a son,
Lori Miller, Assistant Dean for Student Services at Seton Hall
Ryan Henry on February 3. Sarah Obaditch Kambour
Law School, a daughter, Jessica on June 3. Robert C. Neff Jr.
’95 and Eric Kambour, a son, Alexander Jordan on July 22,
’91 and Cynthia Spera Neff ’92, twin daughters, Katherine
1999. Leslie L. Mangini-Phiefer ’95 and Glenn Phiefer, a
Rose and Laura Marie in October 1999. Richard E.Weber
son, Kevin Glenn on February 5. Scott W. Sawyer ’95 and
Jr. ’91 and Virginia Weber, a daughter, Fiona Willow on May 8.
Corrine Crotty Sawyer, a daughter, Cora Ann on February 26.
Susan Brodbeck Agnew ’92 and John Agnew, a son, John
Brian E. Raftery ’97 and Ruth F. Raftery, a daughter, Brigid
Peter “Jack” Jr. on June 21. Christopher P. DePhillips ’92
Flynn on March 29. Christine Grieco Shepard ’97 and
and Patti DePhillips, a daughter, Caroline on October 3, 1999.
Anthony Shepard, a daughter, Victoria Taylor on December
on
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31, 1999. Rebecca R.
7, 1999. Veronica A. McMillian and Thomas A. McMillian Jr., a daughter, Abigail Maureen on May 10. Pia S. Perez ’99 and Jose S. Perez, a son, Andres Martin on December 3, 1999. Lynne Urbanowicz-Mulcahy ’99 and Bob Mulcahy, a son, Robert Henry in February 1999. Professor Craig Albert and Adrienne Koch, a son, Benjamin Albert Koch, in August, 1999. Professor Sarah Waldeck and Paul Olszowska, a daughter, Peyton Margaret, on May 31.
In Memoriam Frederick Koddenberg ’34 Arthur J. Blake ’37 Robert C. Gruhin ’37 Joseph “Bo” Sullivan ’64 Barbara Johnson ’68 Joseph C. Hanisko ’88 Professor Andrea Catania
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Commencement 2000 Clifford L. Alexander Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, the global leader in business information services, delivered the keynote address at the 46th Commencement Exercises of the Law School on Friday, June 2, at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel. Alexander encouraged Seton Hall Law School graduates to honor civility and family as they go forward in life. Alexander – whose family includes his wife, Adele, and their son Mark, a Seton Hall Law Professor, daughter Elizabeth, a Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, their spouses and five grandchildren – called his family “a source of constant radiating strength.”
The Most Reverend Theodore E. McCarrick, Ph.D., D.D., Archbishop of Newark and President of the Seton Hall University Board of Regents, welcomed the graduates and their guests and later conferred degrees on the 370 graduates present. New Jersey Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. joined Associate Dean Charles Sullivan, J.D., LL.M., during the presentation of student awards. He presented Backstage before Commencement were (from left to right) Patrick E. Hobbs, J.D., LL.M., Dean James Fennessy, a 2000 of Seton Hall Law School; Mark Alexander, J.D.,Associate Professor of Law; Clifford Alexander, graduate and a State Trooper J.D., Chair and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet; the Most Reverend Theodore E. McCarrick, Ph.D., who works in his office, with D.D.,Archbishop of Newark; Monsignor Robert Sheeran, S.T.D., President, Seton Hall University; Daniel J. McCarthy ’87, President, Law School Alumni Association. the Raymond Del Tufo Constitutional Law Award. And, in a time-honored Seton Hall tradition, several alums escorted their sons and daughters across the stage to receive their diplomas. Reverend Robert S. Meyer, S.T.L., J.C.L., J.D. ’00, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs at Seton Hall University, served as Homilist for the Commencement Mass before graduating with his class.
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