Paula Franzese
Encyclopedia
Paula Ann Franzese is an American
law professor, specializing in real property
and ethics
. She is the Peter W. Rodino
Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
, and a visiting professor of political science
at Barnard College
. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1980, and went on to receive her Juris Doctor
from Columbia University School of Law in 1983. Franzese was appointed Chair of the newly empowered State Ethics Commission, by New Jersey
Governor Jon Corzine
, in 2006. Previously, she was appointed Special Ethics Counsel to New Jersey Governor Richard Codey
.
Professor Franzese’s casebook, Property Law and the Public Interest (3d ed., Lexis, 2007), (with Callies, Mandelker & Hylton), is heralded as one of the first to expansively explore the public interest dimensions of Property law. In May 2009, she was elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Her scholarship in the area of Property includes critical examination of common interest communities, homeowners associations and the dilemma of privatization, the law of servitudes, exclusionary zoning, affordable housing, adverse possession doctrine and takings law. She joined in the submission to the U.S. Supreme Court of an amicus brief in the Kelo case
, and has written and presented on takings law reform. In 2006, she was named to the editorial board of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. She has published extensively on the anatomy of ethics reform of state and local government, and in the areas of legal pedagogy and attorney professionalism. She is a contributor to the books America's Second Gilded Age? Perspectives on Law and Class Differences (NYU Press, 2006), The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), and Reaction and Reform in New Jersey (Hall Institute, 2007). She is the Gilbert's "Legend of the Law" in Property (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and is the author and presenter of an audiotape and CD collection on Property (Thomson, 2003).
Prof. Franzese is a nine-time recipient of the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award. Nominated for the Robert Foster Cherry Prize for Great Teaching, she has been named “Exemplary Teacher" by the American Association of Higher Education and was ranked the Top Law Professor in New Jersey by the New Jersey Law Journal. Prof. Franzese has demonstrated and deconstructed her teaching method at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meetings and has presented on teaching as both art and science at the Institute for Law School Teaching and at various faculty colloquia across the country. She is past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods, and in 2008 she was named Vice-Chair of the Legal Education Section of the American Bar Association. Prof. Franzese is also a frequent lecturer for Bar/Bri.
United States
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law professor, specializing in real property
Real property
In English Common Law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is any subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts: any buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, roads, various property rights, and so forth...
and ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
. She is the Peter W. Rodino
Peter W. Rodino
Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr. was a Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that led to the resignation of President Richard...
Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
Seton Hall University School of Law
The Seton Hall University School of Law is part of Seton Hall University, and is located in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Seton Hall Law School is the only private law school in New Jersey, and is the top-ranked of the three law schools in the state...
, and a visiting professor of political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
at Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1980, and went on to receive her Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
from Columbia University School of Law in 1983. Franzese was appointed Chair of the newly empowered State Ethics Commission, by New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
Governor Jon Corzine
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and of MF Global, and a one time American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected Governor...
, in 2006. Previously, she was appointed Special Ethics Counsel to New Jersey Governor Richard Codey
Richard Codey
Richard James Codey is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New Jersey from November 2004 to January 2006. He has served in the New Jersey Senate since 1981 and served as the President of the Senate from 2002 to January 2010. He represents the 27th Legislative...
.
Professor Franzese’s casebook, Property Law and the Public Interest (3d ed., Lexis, 2007), (with Callies, Mandelker & Hylton), is heralded as one of the first to expansively explore the public interest dimensions of Property law. In May 2009, she was elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Her scholarship in the area of Property includes critical examination of common interest communities, homeowners associations and the dilemma of privatization, the law of servitudes, exclusionary zoning, affordable housing, adverse possession doctrine and takings law. She joined in the submission to the U.S. Supreme Court of an amicus brief in the Kelo case
Kelo v. City of New London
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development...
, and has written and presented on takings law reform. In 2006, she was named to the editorial board of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. She has published extensively on the anatomy of ethics reform of state and local government, and in the areas of legal pedagogy and attorney professionalism. She is a contributor to the books America's Second Gilded Age? Perspectives on Law and Class Differences (NYU Press, 2006), The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), and Reaction and Reform in New Jersey (Hall Institute, 2007). She is the Gilbert's "Legend of the Law" in Property (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and is the author and presenter of an audiotape and CD collection on Property (Thomson, 2003).
Prof. Franzese is a nine-time recipient of the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award. Nominated for the Robert Foster Cherry Prize for Great Teaching, she has been named “Exemplary Teacher" by the American Association of Higher Education and was ranked the Top Law Professor in New Jersey by the New Jersey Law Journal. Prof. Franzese has demonstrated and deconstructed her teaching method at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meetings and has presented on teaching as both art and science at the Institute for Law School Teaching and at various faculty colloquia across the country. She is past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods, and in 2008 she was named Vice-Chair of the Legal Education Section of the American Bar Association. Prof. Franzese is also a frequent lecturer for Bar/Bri.