Professor Freamon brings a unique and impressive set of qualifications to the job. A Professor of Law Emeritus at Seton Hall Law School, he has visited on the law faculties of the University of Nairobi, Washington and Lee University, Rutgers University (Newark), and Pace University, and he has served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University School of Law for the past four years,…, Books and Book Chapters, Possessed by The Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures, (Leiden: Brill, 2019) "Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman and the Persian Gulf," in, What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective, , edited by Noel Lenski and Catherine M. Cameron (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018) "Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and Modern Islamic Thought," in, Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, , edited by Robert Harms, David W. Blight, and Bernard K. Freamon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013) (co-editor with Robert Harms and David W. Blight) "Slavery," in, Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, , edited by Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, and Mahan Mirza (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) "Definitions and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law," in, The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary, , edited by Jean Allain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) "Islamic Law and Trafficking in Women and Children in the Indian Ocean World," in, Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and Experience of Women and Children, , edited by Benjamin Lawrance and Richard L. Roberts (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012) "The Emergence of a New Qur'anic Hermeneutic and the Role and Impact of Universities in West and East," in, The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a, , edited by P. Bearman, W. Heinrichs, and B. Weiss (London: I.B. Taurus, 2008) "Action Research for Justice in Newark, N.J.," in, Educating for Justice: Social Values and Legal Education, , edited by Jeremy Cooper and Louise Trubek (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 1997), Evidence: Cases and Problems, , 2nd ed. (Harrison, Norcross, Ga., 1995) (with Warren D. Bracy, Ronald D. Raitt, Ivan E. Bodensteiner, and James Marshall Klebba), Articles, " Is the State Constitutional Guarantee of the Privilege of Habeas Corpus Suspended in N.J.? ", 49, Seton Hall J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y, 75 (2025). " ABA-Mandated Instruction on Racism and Recent State Legislation Banning Such Instruction in University Classrooms: ‘Jim Crow’ Redux ", 29, Roger Williams U. L. Rev., 11 (2024). "Are the Persian Gulf City-States Slave Societies?" ,, Aeon Essays, , 2021 "Review of Jonathan A.C. Brown, Slavery and Islam" (London: Oneworld Academic, 2019) 4, Journal of Islamic Ethics, , 1-5 (2020) "Toward the Abolition of Slavery under the Aegis of Islamic Law, The Comparative Jurist,", William and Mary Law School’s International and Comparative Law Blog, , May 1, 2020, , ", ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Human Right to Freedom from Slavery under Islamic Law," 39 , Fordham International Law Journal, 245 (2015), ", Ideological Origins of Anti-Slavery Thought," 1, Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, , pp. 345-357 (2007), ", Qur’an and Antislavery," 2, Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, , pp. 555-560 (2007) , ", Some Reflection on Post-Enlightenment Qur’anic Hermeneutics," 2006, Michigan State Law Review, 1403, ", The Origins of the Anti-Segregation Clause in the New Jersey Constitution," 35, Rutgers Law Journal, 1267 (2004), ", Martyrdom, Suicide, and the Islamic Law of War: A Short Legal History," 27, Fordham International Law Journal, 299 (2003), ", Slavery, Freedom, and the Doctrine of Consensus in Islamic Jurisprudence," 11, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 1 (1998), ", A Blueprint for a Center of Social Justice," 22, Seton Hall Law Review, 1225 (1992), ", Peer Review Physicians and the State Action Exemption: Are They Protected When They Act in Bad Faith?," 9, Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases, 247 (1988)., ", A Review of the Right to Die for Terminally Ill Patients," 1, Yale L. & Pol'y Rev., 80 (1982) (with Linda Mehling), ", Death with Dignity Laws: A Plea for Uniform Legislation," 5, Seton Hall Legislative Journal, 105 (1982)
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Professor Natasha Varyani, a dynamic legal scholar, has joined the faculty at Roger Williams University School of Law. From 2020 to 2023 she served as an associate professor of law at New England Law | Boston where she led their First-Generation Student Program and co-chaired their Charles Hamilton Houston Enrichment Program. Previously, Professor Varyani served as the Associate Director of the…, BOOKS, Owning our values : understanding systemic racism through the lens of property law (and skills to do something about it)., Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, ©2024. This scholarly project seeks to support professors and students in 1L Property classrooms in examining the ways in which our laws have created and supported systems and structures that reinforce racial inequality. Chapters will particularly focus on bar tested areas of law and each will conclude with a sample exercise aimed at retaining…, Feminist Judgment Series (Property): Coggan v. Coggan, . (Cambridge University Press with Stevie Leahy) Co-Authored chapter containing re-written judicial opinion in a Florida case on the topic of Tenancy in Common and gendered treatment of former spouses. , ARTICLES, , " Social Justice & Multi-Jurisdictional Tax: A Critical Examination of the Digitization of Commerce, Multi-Jurisdictional Tax & An Opportunity to Correct a Systemic Preference to Protect Wealth ,", Capital University Law Review, , Volume 50, Number 2 (Fall 2022) "Response to “Identity Capitalists”: Implications for Property, Academia, and Affirmative Action,", New England Law Review, , Volume 56, Number 2 (Spring 2022). "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard: Affirmative Action, Race Based Policies and Preference Falsification,", Boston Bar Association, (April 7, 2021) " If You’re Planning on Asking a Black Friend or Colleague How to Help with BLM Movement, Don’t! ," National Jurist, September 2020. "COVID-19 and State Emergency Orders,", Massachusetts Bar Association Section Review, (July / August 2020) "Taxing Short Term Rentals May Spoil the Season,", Boston Business Journal Viewpoint, , July 19, 2019 Op-Ed. "A New Purpose: Shifting Foundations That May Reprioritize the Needs of Corporate Stakeholders and Social Movements,", New England Law Review, , Volume 54, No. 1 (2019). "Being Present: What a Sales Tax Case Demonstrates About Federalism, The Dormant Commerce Clause, and the Direction of Supreme Court Jurisprudence,", Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, , Volume 28, No. 1 (Winter 2019) "States Unbound: Examining the Authority of the Multistate Tax Compact in a Modern, Multijurisdictional Economy,", Wayne State Law Review Journal of Business, (Summer 2018) "Cognitive Load Theory and Learning the Law: How and Why Minority Students Struggle in Law School,", The Learning Curve, , Winter 2018. "A Contract Among States: Capturing Income of the World’s Multi-Jurisdictional Taxpayers,", University of Bologna Law Review, , Vol. 1, No. 2, January 2017. "Taxing Electronic Commerce: The Efforts of Sales and Use Tax to Evolve with Technology,", Oklahoma City University Law Review, , Volume 39, Issue 2 (Summer 2014). "Understanding Discovery: The Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine as Related to Tax Memoranda,", Mass Bar Association Section Review, , Volume 11, No. 2, 41-42 (2009). "Combined Reporting in Massachusetts: A Primer on the Controversy,", Mass Bar Association Section Review, , Volume 10, No. 3 29-31 (2008). "Defining Manufacturing Activity in Massachusetts: Recent decisions Clarify the Availability of Sales and Use Tax Exemptions for Entitles Engaged in Manufacturing," , Mass Bar Association Section Review, , Volume 10, No. 1, 35-36 (2008).
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Deborah Gonzalez is the Director of Legal Clinics. Student Attorneys in the Immigration Clinic are licensed to practice law under Deborah’s license pursuant Article II, Rule 9 Supreme Court Rules. Student Attorneys represent indigent immigrants who need assistance in defending against removal proceedings or obtaining lawful permanent residence through some form of relief before the U.S.…, Articles, ", Sky Is the Limit: Protecting Unaccompanied Minors by Not Subjecting Them To Numerical Limitations," 49, St. Mary's Law Journal, 555 (2018), ", Immigration Consequences to a Charge of Simple Assault or Battery,, ", Rhode Island Bar Journal, , January/February, 2013, at 21
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As the Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic, Andrew Horwitz provides students with the real world opportunities they need to help sharpen their legal skills. In the Criminal Defense Clinic second and third year law students represent indigent criminal defendants in Rhode Island District Court and the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal under his direct supervision. Each semester students handle…, Articles, "The Costs of Abusing Probationary Sentences: Overincarceration and the Erosion of Due Process," 75, Brooklyn Law Review, 753 (2010), ", Police Prosecution in Rhode Island: The Unauthorized Practice of Law,, ", Rhode Island Bar Journa, l, May/June 2006, at 5 (with John R. Grasso) "Mixed Signals and Subtle Cues: Jury Independence and Judicial Appointment of the Jury Foreperson,", , 5, 4 Catholic University Law Review, 829 (2005) "The Right to Counsel in Criminal Cases: The Law and Reality in Rhode Island District Court,", , 9, Roger Williams University Law Review, 409 (2004) "Coercion, Pop-Psychology, and Judicial Moralizing: Some Proposals for Curbing Judicial Abuse of Probation Conditions," 57, Washington and Lee Law Review, 75 (2000) "Taking the Cop Out of Copping a Plea: Eradicating Police Prosecution of Criminal Cases," 40 A, rizona Law Review, 1305 (1998) "Sexual Psychopath Legislation: Is There Anywhere to Go But Backwards?," 57, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 35 (1995)
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David is former General Counsel and a retired Partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Hinckley Allen. He has extensive experience as a trial and appellate lawyer, handling complex and novel litigation in federal and state courts. He currently serves as Chair of the Rhode Island Board of Bar Examiners and is a past President of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
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