Rutgers Law Faculty Redefining Legal Education Globally

Vera Bergelson, Distinguished Professor of Law

Presenter, "The Otherness of the Defense of Others," Australian Society of Legal Philosophy annual conference, Brisbane, Australia (July 2026)

Presenter, “Splendid Samaritans and Forced Fatherhood,” second international workshop, “Samaritans: Good and Bad? Individual(s), Society, and the State,” Radboud University, Netherlands (2026)

Presenter, “Involuntary Fatherhood: Reproductive Autonomy and Justice,” panel presentation at “Rights, Relationality, Resilience, Reciprocity,” annual conference of Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (December 2025)

Presenter, “Good Samaritans and Forced Fatherhood,” Zoom international workshop, “Samaritans: Good and Bad? Individual(s), Society, and the State,” University of York, United Kingdom (2025)

Sarah Camiscoli, Associate Professor of Law

Workshop participant, “Institutionalising Youth Co-Governance in University–Territory Innovation Ecosystems,” 12^th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’26) Valencia, Spain (June 2026)

Jorge Contesse, Professor of Law

Serves on United Nations Committee Against Torture, a panel of 10 independent experts responsible for monitoring global compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture, Geneva, Switzerland (April 2026). Students also traveled to Geneva with Professor Contesse as part of a practicum course offered through Rutgers Law School’s Center for Transnational Law.

 

Rose Cuison-Villazor, Distinguished Professor of Law

Presenter, "Echoes of the Law: Reawakening Judicial Heritage Across Cultures," Philippine Judicial Academy, Manila and Tagaytay, Philippines (November 2025)

Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice co-hosted intensive interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic workshop, "“Race” and “Religion” in the Law of Migration: Comparing E.U. and U.S. Contexts," Lund University Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Sweden (March 2026)

Perry Dane, Professor of Law

Presenter, intensive interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic workshop, "“Race” and “Religion” in the Law of Migration: Comparing E.U. and U.S. Contexts," Lund University Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Sweden (March 2026) [Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion co-hosted]

Matteo Gatti, Professor of Law

Presenter, “How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America,” 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (October 2025)

Presenter, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change," York University Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada (March 2026)

Senior Fellow, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Center for Advanced Studies-Foundations of Law and Finance, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Summer 2026)

Discussant to Jeff Gordon & Dorothy Lund’s paper “Private Equity’s Accountability Deficit: The Case for Mandatory Disclosure” at the conference “The Law and Finance of Private Equity and Venture Capital,” Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (June 2026)

Book talk, “Corporate Power and the Politics of Change,” Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (February 2026)

Presenter, "How to Govern Corporate Governing? A Policy Roadmap," Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Seminar, Netherlands (October 2025)

Book talk, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change," inaugural The London School of Economics Political Economy of Law and Finance Workshop, United Kingdom (March 2026)

Presenter, "How to Govern Corporate Governing? A Policy Roadmap," Stigler Center Conference Series on the Political Economy of Finance, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (October 2025)

Jonathan Gingerich, Professor of Law

Speaker, “The Politics of Spontaneous Freedom," Queen’s University Philosophy Department, Ontario, Canada (November 2025)

Speaker, “Genius, Spontaneous Freedom, and the Avant-Garde,” Oxford Philosophy Society, Oxford, United Kingdom (March 2026)

Speaker, “The Politics of Spontaneity,” University College London Law Faculty’s Dworkin Colloquium, United Kingdom (January 2026)

Organizer, "Spontaneity," two-day international conference, University College London, United Kingdom (July 2025)

Stuart Green, Distinguished Professor of Law

Lecturer, seminar on criminal law theory, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Fall 2025)

Lecturer, "Criminal Liability for Causing the Suicide of Another," Faculty of Law, Austral University, Valdivia, Chile (November 2025)

Lecturer, "Criminal Liability for Causing the Suicide of Another," Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina (October 2025)

Speaker, "Criminal Liability for Causing the Suicide of Another," Faculty Seminar, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 2025)

Panelist, "Criminal Liability for Causing the Suicide of Another," Faculty of Law, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (November 2025)

Book talk, La criminalización del sexo (Spanish translation of Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory) Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 2025)  

Book talk, Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory, Department of Law, University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 2025)

Public lecture, Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory, Supreme Court of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 2025)

Public lecture, Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory, Mendoza Judicial Center, Mendoza, Argentina (October 2025)

Christina S. Ho, Distinguished Professor of Law

Presenter, "Care-Forward Jurisprudence and the Task of Health Law in Biopolitical-Necropolitical Times," Australasian Society Of Legal Philosophy Conference, University Of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (July 2026)

Lecturer, “The Role of Law in an Era of Global Crises and Change,” University Capacity Development Program Africa Initiative, International Teaching Week, University of the Western Cape, Faculty of Law, Republic of South Africa (July/August 2025)
*Lectures on U.S. Welfare Law and Research Methodology: Law and Political Economy
*Presented paper, “Care-Forward Jurisprudence” on “Labour and Health Law” panel with Nigerian and Ethiopian scholars 

Member, International Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group, Durham University, England (2025-2026)

Suzanne Kim, Professor of Law

Speaker, "Powerful Voices of the Subaltern: Transnational & Interdisciplinary Approaches," Seoul National University School of Law international conference, South Korea (June 2025)

Presenter, "The Single Majority: Single Studies for a Changing Society," International Singles Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (July 2026)

JC Lore, Distinguished Clinical Professor

By invitation of the Supreme Court of Ethiopia, Rutgers Advocacy Center Director JC Lore III and student Dawson Bailey Kipphut ’25 spent a week in Ethiopia training public defenders and building relationships for future collaborations (October 2025) 

Presenter/Organizer, legal advocacy and public defense training, Ghana (March 2026)

Fulbright Specialist, National Law University, Delhi, India (August 2025)

John Oberdiek, Distinguished Professor of Law

Lecturer, Tort Theory, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (June 2025)

Presenter/Lecturer, "Negligence, Real Wrongs, and Relational Legal Redress," Hong Kong University (March 2026)

Co-host, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory workshop, National University of Singapore (August 2025)

Presenter, "To Whom is the Duty of Care Owed?" Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (June 2026)