Maryellen Fullerton is an American lawyer and academic. She is a professor of law and former interim dean at Brooklyn Law School. She was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento for 2012-13.[1][2]
Maryellen Fullerton
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Duke University (BA) Antioch School of Law (JD) |
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Fullerton earned a B.A. in 1968 at Duke University and a J.D. in 1978 at Antioch School of Law.[3][4] She was a law clerk to both Judge Frank Minis Johnson (U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama; 1978–79), as well as to Judge Francis Van Dusen (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; 1979–80).[1][4] She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Louvain in 1986-87.[1][4]
She was appointed to the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento for the 2012-13 academic year.[1][2]
Fullerton is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. In May 2018, Fullerton was appointed Interim Dean of the school following the departure of Nicholas Allard.[5][1][6][7] In July 2019, Fullerton was succeeded as Dean by Michael Cahill.[8]
She co-authored Forced Migration: Law and Policy and Immigration (2013) and Citizenship Law: Process and Policy, casebooks that are used by over 100 US law schools and universities.[1][9][10]
| Preceded by | Dean of Brooklyn Law School 2018–19 |
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