Maryellen Fullerton

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]

Biography[]

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]

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