Maryellen Fullerton is an American lawyer and academic. She is a professor of law and former interim dean at

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. She was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the

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for 2012-13.

Biography

Fullerton earned a B.A. in 1968 at

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and a J.D. in 1978 at

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."C.V.,"
brooklaw.edu. She was a

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to both Judge

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(

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; 1978–79), as well as to Judge Francis Van Dusen (

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; 1979–80). She was a

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at the

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in 1986-87. She was appointed to the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the

for the 2012-13 academic year. Fullerton is Professor of Law at

. In May 2018, Fullerton was appointed Interim Dean of the school following the departure of

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. In July 2019, Fullerton was succeeded as Dean by Michael Cahill. 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.

References

External links

*Maryellen Fullerton (1995)
''Refugees and Migrants: Hungary at a Crossroads''
*Maryellen Fullerton (1995)
''Germany for Germans: Xenophobia and Racist Violence in Germany''
*Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Maryellen Fullerton, Hiroshi Motomura (2008)
''Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy''
*Hélène Lambert,

Jane McAdam Jane Alexandra McAdam (born 1974) is an Australian legal scholar, and expert in climate change and refugees. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW, and is the inaugural Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law ...

, and Maryellen Fullerton (2013)
''The Global Reach of European Refugee Law''
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