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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.
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Fullerton earned a B.A. in 1968 at Duke University and a J.D. in 1978 at Antioch School of Law. 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). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Louvain in 1986-87.
She was appointed to the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento for the 2012-13 academic year.
Fullerton is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, at which she was also formerly Interim Dean.
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.