Caucus: New Jersey with Steve Adubato

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 Steve Adubato Talks With Paula Franzese

Professor Paula Franzese was appointed Special Ethics Counsel to Governor Codey and is the Peter W. Rodino Jr. Professor of Law at Seton Hall. In 2005, Professor Franzese was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 2004, Prof. Franzese and Justice Daniel J. O’Hern were appointed Special Ethics Counsel to Governor Codey, responsible for ethics reform in the Executive Branch of government. Co-authored with Associate Justice O'Hern the "Report of the Special Ethics Counsel" on ethics reform recommendations for the executive branch of the NJ Government.

In 1996, Prof. Franzese was appointed by Governor Whitman to serve as Commissioner of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission and, in 2000, she was elected Vice-Chair of the Commission, where she served until 2004. In May, 2004, she was named Chair of NYC Councilman Alan J. Gerson’s Task Force on Affordable Housing, studying a legislative reform effort to keep tenants in affordable housing. She is the recipient of numerous teaching and scholarly awards.

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