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News for Alumni and Friends of the Seton Hall University School of Law
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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.
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.
Council Meeting,
Function Room
June 18, 1 p.m.
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.
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
Table of
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
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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
seton hall university school of law
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.
I
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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Update
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.
programs in the nation.
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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.
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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.
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).
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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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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.
A
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.
A
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.
The
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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Talk ALONG the
TENURE track
by JANA ANDERSON CARDOZA
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.
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.”
An
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.”
Erichson has lived in Montclair for 10 years where he enjoys
coaching his son’s soccer team.
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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
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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The
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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and The Law of Death and Dying as an adjunct at
Seton Hall Law School, liked it so much that he has
come back to stay.
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
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Rachel Godsil
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
Tristin Green
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
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.
Following
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.”
A zmy
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.
Azmy
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
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.”
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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
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.
Brown
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
CATANIA
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.
One
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.
PEREZ
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PROFESSOR
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
Hendrickson
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.
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
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
SETON HALL LAW 35
‘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
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.
continued
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,
Fr ances
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
December
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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