Paula Franzese

Paula Ann Franzese is an American legal scholar based in New Jersey who focuses on government ethics and property law. She is an awardwinning legal educator and advocate for ethics reform, spokesperson for legal education, chairwoman on the New Jersey ethics commission, and author. She is the Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law in the Seton Hall University School of Law.

Franzese was born in 1960 and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelors degree from Columbias Barnard College. She became a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School, and won several academic prizes, including the Rosenman prize for excellence in public law courses. She worked as a litigator with Cahill Gordon amp Reindel in New York City, where she served as a member of the New York City Housing Court reform project. She clerked for New Jersey Supreme Court justice Alan B. Handler. She became a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School in 1986 where she also directs the Pro Bono Program.

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