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Deborah Zalesne,
Professor, earned a B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from the University of
Denver College of Law where she was Articles Editor of the Denver Law Review, and an LL.M. from Temple Law School where she
was an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow. Prior to joining the CUNY faculty,
she taught commercial law at Temple Law School, practiced corporate and
commercial litigation with a law firm in Denver, Colorado, and clerked for
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory K. Scott. She also served as an advisor
to the Russian Commission on Securities and Exchanges, where she helped draft
sections of the Russian Corporate Code under a USAID grant, and was an advisor
to the Women's Legal Center in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a member of the
boards of Beyond the 11th, a charitable organization devoted to supporting
disenfranchised widows in Afghanistan, and Iris House, a Harlem-based not-for-profit that
addresses the unique needs of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
She has
published numerous articles on sexual harassment, discrimination, and poverty
law in such journals as Harvard Women's
Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and
Feminism, Women's International Net,
Temple Political and Civil Rights Law
Review, and the South African Journal
of Human Rights, and has made presentations on these issues in the U.S.,
South Africa, Poland, Hungary, Israel, and Australia. She has also published widely in the area of legal pedagogy. She has a book
(co-authored with David Nadvorney) forthcoming with Carolina Academic Press
entitled, "Teaching to Every Student: Integrating Skills and Theory into the
Contracts Class." She teaches in the areas
of contracts, corporations, and commercial law.
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