:en:Paula Franzese

Franzese graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, Columbia University.Martindale Hubbell, [http://www.martindale.com/Profile/attorneys.aspx?alid=1107274&ft=1?PRV=URE Profile], Accessed July 4, 2014, "Peter Rodino Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, ... Areas of Focus: Property; Commercial Law ... University: Columbia University, B.A.; Law School: Columbia University, J.D.; Born New York, New York..." Franzese received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and won several academic prizes, including the Rosenman Prize for excellence in public law courses.

Franzese became a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School in 1986, and she later became the Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law at Seton Hall.{{cite web|url=http://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/paula-franzese.cfm|title=Paula Franzese|year=2017|publisher=Seton Hall|accessdate=2017-02-27}} In 2020, she was named one of the Top Women in Law by the New Jersey Law Journal.{{cite web |last1=Gialanella |first1=David |title=Top Women in Law |url=https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2020/11/20/top-women-in-law-paula-franzese/?slreturn=20221026121503 |website=New Jersey Law Journal |access-date=26 November 2022}}

File:One Newark Center fr Cherry St jeh.jpg.]]Franzese's scholarship focuses on two main areas of the law: government ethics and property law.Maddie Hanna, Inquirer Trenton Bureau, May 13, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140516114009/http://articles.philly.com/2014-05-13/news/49798025_1_christie-office-sokolich-lane-closures Did Christie office cross the line between campaign and government?], Accessed July 4, 2014, "...conflation of official duties and campaign efforts is problematic..." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #11 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}March 16, 2014, MSNBC, [http://www.msnbc.com/disrupt/watch/keystone-battle-highlights-landowner-issue-197358147508 Keystone battle highlights landowner issue]: The battles over the Keystone Pipeline have highlighted what is an issue that impacts landowners all across our country. Karen Finney talks with Texas farm owner Julia Trigg Crawford and Seton Hall law professor Paula Franzese, Accessed July 4, 2014 {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #12 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} Her research into property law includes landlord-tenant reform,{{cite web | url=http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/10/property_law_scholar_more_nj_tenants_need_to_know.html | title= Less than 1% of N.J. tenants know their rights | publisher=NJ.com | accessdate=2017-02-27 | year=2017}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #8 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}{{cite web | url=http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/02/a_qa_how_to_stop_slumlords_from_abusing_poor_tenan.html#incart_river_indexl | title= How to stop slumlords from abusing poor tenants | publisher=NJ.com | accessdate=2017-02-27 | year=2017}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #13 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} common interest communities including homeowners' boards,{{cite web | first= LAURA| last= MANSNERUS | date= March 12, 2006 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/12njHOME.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 | title= Chalk One Up for Homeowners | accessdate= October 4, 2015 | quote=...homeowners board... one state ... treat these councils like real governments... "This is the hottest, most-litigious field now in property law," said Prof. Paula Franzese... }} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #14 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}Paula Franzese, August 8, 2011, Rutgers Law Review, [http://www.rutgerslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/vol63/Issue3/Franzese.pdf NEW JERSEY COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES: PREDICTORS OF DISTRESS AND AN AGENDA FOR REFORM], Accessed July 4, 2014, "...homeowners associations and the dilemma of privatization, the law of servitudes, exclusionary zoning, affordable housing, adverse possession doctrine and takings law. ..." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #15 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} and affordable housing, including a legal analysis of the Mount Laurel doctrine.Paula Franzese, Volume 19, 1991, Fordham Law Review, [http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol19/iss1/2/ Mount Laurel and the Fair Housing Act: Success or Failure? A Presentation by the Affordable Housing Colloquium of the Seton Hall University Center for Social Justice with an Introduction and Commentary by Paula A. Franzese], Accessed July 4, 2014, ".. concerning affordable housing. This article explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the Mount Laurel doctrine, ...." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #16 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} In addition to her scholarship, Franzese wrote two general-purpose guidebooks for students, including A Short & Happy Guide To Being A College Student and A Short & Happy Guide To Being A Law Student.March 16, 2014, CBS News, [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/mom-professor-pens-books-about-going-off-to-college-law-school/ Mom, Professor Pens Books About Going Off To College, Law School], Accessed July 4, 2014, "...Paula Franzese..." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #17 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}MAIA BIX, March 5, 2014, Columbia Spectator, [http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2014/03/05/barnard-professor-writes-two-books-giving-advice-college-students Barnard professor writes two books giving advice to college students], Accessed July 4, 2014 {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #18 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} Franzese has advocated for a right to counsel for low-income tenants facing eviction{{cite web | url=http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/11/why_nj_should_provide_low-income_tenants_facing_ev.html | title= Why N.J. should provide low-income tenants facing eviction free legal help | publisher=NJ.com| accessdate=2017-11-08 | year=2017}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #19 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} and moderated fair housing programs.{{cite web | url=https://monarchhousing.org/2017/10/08/professor-paula-franzese | title= Join NJ Eviction Expert Professor Paula Franzese for the Oct 12 #EvictionNJForum at Drew University | work= Monarch Housing | publisher=Monarch Housing Associates| accessdate=2017-11-07 | year=2017}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #20 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}

Franzese was featured as one of the 26 best law teachers in the nation in the book What the Best Law Teachers Do and has been named as an Exemplary Teacher by the American Association of Higher Education.Citation error. See inline comment how to fix. {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863444101 by a bug in VisualEditor and later identified by a bot. The original cite can be found at Special:Permalink/863442835 (or in a rev close to it) as cite #25 - find and verify the cite and replace this template with it (2). User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}{{cite web |title=Paula Franzese |url=https://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/paula-franzese.cfm |website=Seton Hall Law |access-date=26 November 2022}} In 2019, the Seton Hall Student Bar Association's Professor of the Year Award was renamed the Paula A. Franzese Professor of the Year Award in her honor after she won the award 10 times.{{cite web |title=Paula Franzese |url=https://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/paula-franzese.cfm |website=Seton Hall Law |access-date=26 November 2022}} Franzese was recognized as one of twenty Inspiring Women in Education by SheKnows media for her volunteer efforts teaching middle school students civics and has presented on education as a human right at the UN International Human Rights Summit.{{cite web |last1=Ricciardelli |first1=Michael |title=Law Professor Paula Franzese Presents at UN Human Rights Summit |url=https://www.shu.edu/news/law-professor-presents-at-un-human-rights-summit.cfm |website=Seton Hall University |date=28 August 2017 |access-date=26 November 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Kirsch |first1=Melissa |title=20 Inspiring Women Who Are Transforming the Way Kids Learn |url=https://www.sheknows.com/living/slideshow/25/inspiring-women-in-education-2015/10/ |website=She Knows Media |date=October 2015 |access-date=26 November 2022}} Franzese pioneered the cause of law-related and civic education during her tenure as President of the Justice Resource Center, the largest non-profit provider of law-related and civic education for grades four through twelve. Franzese also lectured for ten years at BarBri, a bar-exam preparation firm, serving as its national lecturer on property law.Citation error. See inline comment how to fix. {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863444101 by a bug in VisualEditor and later identified by a bot. The original cite can be found at Special:Permalink/863442835 (or in a rev close to it) as cite #26 - find and verify the cite and replace this template with it (2). User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}

At Seton Hall Law, she is the director of The Leadership Fellows Program.{{cite web |title=Leadership Fellows Program |url=https://law.shu.edu/students/academics/leadership-fellows/index.cfm#:~:text=The%20Leadership%20Fellows%20Program%2C%20under,of%20an%20application%20and%20interview. |website=Seton Hall Law |access-date=26 November 2022}} The Program includes "a distinguished speakers series, mentoring component and opportunities for experiential learning that include implementation of a community-based leadership project."{{cite web |title=Leadership Fellows Program |url=https://law.shu.edu/students/academics/leadership-fellows/index.cfm#:~:text=The%20Leadership%20Fellows%20Program%2C%20under,of%20an%20application%20and%20interview. |website=Seton Hall Law |access-date=26 November 2022}} She has written on the benefits of a J.D. degree and reasons to go to law school.Citation error. See inline comment how to fix. {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863444101 by a bug in VisualEditor and later identified by a bot. The original cite can be found at Special:Permalink/863442835 (or in a rev close to it) as cite #27 - find and verify the cite and replace this template with it (2). User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}

Franzese is an advocate of ethics reform.Bill Ward, April 18, 2006, New Jersey Eminent Domain Law, [http://www.njeminentdomain.com/state-of-new-jersey-eminent-domain-viewing-njs-ethical-landscape.html Eminent Domain: Viewing N.J.'s ethical landscape], Accessed July 4, 2014, "..."In a state where news of public corruption seems to be never ending, can we ever make real the promise of ethics reform?" - Paula A. Franzese, Chair of the State Ethics Commission..." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863445693 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863444101 cite #5 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}} As Special Ethics Counsel, she and retired Justice Daniel J. O'Hern promulgated the Uniform Ethics Code in New Jersey, a pioneering statutory achievement that has become a model for national replication. She has published and presented on best practices for ethics reform and restoring the public trust.{{cite web |last1=Franzese |first1=Paula |title=Restoring the Public Trust: An Agenda for Ethics Reform of State Government and a Proposed Model for New Jersey |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=871255 |website=SSRN |date=22 December 2005 |ssrn=871255 |access-date=1 December 2022}} She received the National Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) Award, the highest honor conferred by the organization, in recognition of her "significant, demonstrable and positive contributions to the fields of campaign finance, elections, ethics, freedom of information and lobbying over a significant period of time."{{cite web |title=2011 COGEL Conference |url=https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cogel.org/resource/resmgr/2011_cogel_conference_progra.pdf |website=COGEL |access-date=26 November 2022}}

In 2014 and again in 2016, Franzese criticized the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, stating that officials in the administration conflated their official duties with campaign efforts.Maddie Hanna, Inquirer Trenton Bureau, May 13, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140516114009/http://articles.philly.com/2014-05-13/news/49798025_1_christie-office-sokolich-lane-closures Did Christie office cross the line between campaign and government?], Accessed July 4, 2014, "...conflation of official duties and campaign efforts is problematic..." {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863442835 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/863442571 cite #11 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}Citation error. See inline comment how to fix. {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/863445693 by a bug in VisualEditor and later identified by a bot. The original cite can be found at Special:Permalink/863444101 (or in a rev close to it) as cite #28 - find and verify the cite and replace this template with it (2). User:GreenC_bot/Job_18}}

• The Lawyer-Hero: Lessons in Leadership for Lawyers from Watergate to the Present Day, 54 University of Toledo Law Review 359 (2023)
• Disrupting Dispossession: How the Right to Counsel in Landlord-Tenant Proceedings Is Reshaping Outcomes, 52 Seton Hall Law Review 1255 (2022)
• The Anatomy of Government Ethics Reform: Lessons Learned, A Path Forward, 35 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 523 (2021)
• An Inflection Point for Affordable Housing: The Promise of Inclusionary Mixed-Use Redevelopment, 52 Univ. of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law Review 581 (2020)
• Promises Still to Keep: The Fair Housing Act Fifty Years Later, 40 Cardozo Law Review 3 (2019)
• A Place to Call Home: Tenant Blacklisting and the Denial of Opportunity, 45 Fordham Urban Law Journal 661 (2018)
• The Implied Warranty of Habitability Lives: Making Real the Promise of Landlord Tenant Reform, 68 Rutgers Law Review 1 (2017)
• The Power of Empathy in the Classroom, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 1 (2017)
• Empathic Teaching, Empathic Learning, 21 The Law Teacher 54 (2014)
• Law Teaching for the Conceptual Age, 44 Seton Hall Law Review 1 (2014)
• New Jersey Common Interest Communities: Predictors of Distress and an Agenda for Reform, 63 Rutgers Law Review 101 (2011)
• Reclaiming the Promise of the Judicial Branch: Toward a More Meaningful Standard of Judicial Review as Applied to New York Eminent Domain Law, 38 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1091 (2011)
• The Twin Rivers Case: Of Homeowners Associations, Free Speech Rights and Privatized Mini-Governments, 5 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 4 (2008)
• Trust and Community: The Common Interest Community as Metaphor and Paradox, 72 Univ. of Missouri Law Review 1110 (2007)
• Privatization and Its Discontents: Common Interest Communities and the Rise of Government for the "Nice.", 37 The Urban Lawyer 335 (2005)
• Restoring the Public Trust: An Agenda for Ethics Reform of State Government and a Proposed Model for New Jersey, 57 Rutgers Law Review 1175 (2005)
• Solutions to the Crisis in Affordable Housing: A Proposed Model for New York City, 3 Rutgers Journal of Law & Urban Policy 84 (2005)
• Does it Take A Village? Privatization, Patterns of Restrictiveness and the Demise of Community, 47 Villanova Law Review 553 (2002)
• Audiotape and CD course on property law, Thomson, 2003.

• Learning Core Commercial Law Concepts (West, 2d ed., 2022) (with Epstein, Barnes & Tu)
• Housing and Hope: Private Property and Catholic Social Teachings, appearing in Christianity and Private Law (2021) (with A. Carmella)
• When Home Is Uninhabitable: Realizing Essential Tenant Safeguards in New Jersey Law, chapter in New Jersey Landlord Tenant Law (LexisNexis, 2020)
• Housing and Hope: Private Property and Catholic Social Teachings, appearing in Christianity and Private Law (2019)
• Learning Core Commercial Law Concepts: Course Materials (West, 2018)
• A Short & Happy Guide to The Law of Sales (West, 2018)
• Street Smarts for Women Lawyers, NYC Bar Press (2016) (Contributing Author)
• A Short and Happy Series (Twelve Titles) (West, 2015) (Creator and Editor)
• Experiencing Property (West, 2015)
• A Short & Happy Guide To Being A Law Student (West, 2014)March 16, 2014, CBS News, [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/mom-professor-pens-books-about-going-off-to-college-law-school/ Mom, Professor Pens Books About Going Off To College, Law School], Accessed July 4, 2014, "...Paula Franzese..."
• A Short & Happy Guide To Being A College Student (West, 2014){{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2015/05/short_happy_advice_from_a_cedar_grove_mom.html|title='Short & Happy' advice from a Cedar Grove mom|last=Cutler|first=Jacqueline|date=May 10, 2015|publisher=Star-Ledger|accessdate=October 3, 2015|quote=...she wrote "A Short & Happy Guide to Being a College Student" (West Academic Publishing, 248 pp., $17), a...}}
• Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, appearing in Journal of Regional Science (2012)
• Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching: Property (Aspen Publishing, 2012)
• A Short & Happy Guide To Property (Thompson, 2011)
• Law and Class in America, T. Jones, ed. (2009)
• Property Law and the Public Interest, Third Edition (Lexis, 2007)
• Reaction and Reform in New Jersey, Ethics Reform Recommendations for The Executive Branch of New Jersey Government (Hall Institute, 2007) (with Justice Daniel J. O'Hern)
• The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law As a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2006)
• Residential Privilege: The Advent of the Guarded Subdivision, appearing in America's Second Gilded Age? Perspectives on Law and Class Differences (NYU Press, 2005)
• The Law According to Skyboxes (2005) (Contributor)
• Legends of the Law on Property, Thomson (2003)
• Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Property, Aspen publishers.
• Legend of the Law, Gilbert series, in property law, Harcourt Brace, 1996.

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• [http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/franzepa/franzese.html Seton Hall Law School page]
• [https://twitter.com/LawProfPaula Franzese on Twitter]

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