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Elizabeth Defeis

Elizabeth Defeis is the former dean of Seton Hall University School of Law and currently teaches international law, human rights, and international criminal law at Seton Hall.

Professor Defeis has provided technical assistance to the governments of Armenia and Macedonia with respect to building democracy and has lectured extensively throughout the former Soviet Union and in Italy.

She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights and is a recipient of a Fulbright lectureship for scholarship in Armenia and Russia. She was also the first chair of the Urban Development Corporation of New Jersey and is an NGO delegate to the United Nations Coalition Against Traffic in Women.

She received her BA and JD from St. John's University School of Law and her Master of Law from New York University School of Law.