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Current Freedman Fellows
Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Leora Eisenstadt
Molly Graver
Milan Markovic
David Strifling
Nancy Chi Cantalupo comes to Temple University Beasley School of Law from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs. Prior to her Assistant Deanship, she combined teaching and administration as Associate Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University’s Washington College of Law and practiced administrative law with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Prior to and while studying for her J.D., she was the founding director of the Georgetown University Women's Center, where she built the only university office exclusively devoted to advocating for women students, faculty and staff on issues such as violence against women, sex discrimination, and women’s health. She has developed and taught three courses as an adjunct faculty member: “Rule of Law Promotion & Civil Society in China” (an experiential learning course) at Georgetown Law, “International Human Rights of Women” at George Washington University Law School, and “Gender and Global Laws” for Georgetown University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. She has served on the board of the Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, chaired the board of D.C. Law Students in Court from 2007-2010, and acted as “Faculty Counsel” for student complainants in school disciplinary proceedings involving student-on-student sexual assault and relationship violence.
Ms. Cantalupo received her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.S.F.S. magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her publications include “Burying Our Heads in the Sand: Lack of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance and the Persistent Problem of Campus Peer Sexual Violence” (forthcoming in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2011), Campus Violence: Understanding the Extraordinary through the Ordinary, 35 J.C. & U.L. 613 (2009) and Domestic Violence in Ghana: The Open Secret, Geo. J. Gender & L., 531-598 (2006) (co-authored with Lisa Vollendorf Martin, Kay Pak and Sue Shin). She is currently writing on theories of third-party, institutional responsibility for private gender-based violence, as exemplified by the “school responsibility” sexual harassment theory of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and the international human rights theory of “state responsibility” for violence against women.
Prior to joining Temple University Beasley School of Law, Leora Eisenstadt was an associate in the Labor & Employment Group at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia representing and counseling companies in cases involving employment discrimination issues and general employment matters. She also represented and advised educational institutions in cases involving Title IX and Title VII and represented pro bono clients in family law and civil rights cases. From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Eisenstadt served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Eisenstadt received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. in History from Yale University. From 2003 to 2004, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Israel studying sex equality and the development of Israeli equal employment opportunity law.
Ms. Eisenstadt's areas of scholarship and interest include employment law, women's rights, family law, and civil procedure. Her publications include Separation of Church and Hospital: Strategies to Protect Pro-Choice Physicians in Religiously -Affiliated Hospitals, 15 Y.J.L.F. 135, and Privileged but Equal? A Comparison of U.S. and Israeli Notions of Sex Equality in Employment Law, 40 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 357. She has also published articles in BNA Insights: Labor and Employment Law and PBI.org and an essay in The Women's Passover Companion (2003). She is currently writing on the intersection between discrimination law, identity politics, and the use of language in the workplace.
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Molly Graver (2010-2012)
Klein Hall, Room 506
tel: 215-204-6311
fax: 215-204-1185
graver@temple.edu
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Prior to joining Temple University Beasley School of Law, Molly Graver worked as a staff attorney at Farmworker Legal Services of New York and the Farmworker Program of Legal Aid Services of Oregon. Her five years of advocacy on behalf of (im)migrant farmworkers included litigation of claims for unpaid wages, workplace health and safety violations, and human trafficking. Ms. Graver also served as a staff attorney with the New York State Court of Appeals and as Liaison to the United Nations for the Mennonite Central Committee humanitarian organization. Before studying law, Ms. Graver worked for three years with a rural human rights collective in El Salvador and was part of a community on the U.S./Mexico border providing shelter and immigration assistance to refugees.
Ms. Graver received her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law, her M.A. in Theological Studies from Maryknoll School of Theology, and her B.A. in Religion magna cum laude from Davidson College. Her recent scholarship focuses on the integration of migrant farmworker labor rights into the sustainable food systems movement and domestic fair trade certification projects.
Milan Markovic is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A., magna cum laude), New York University (M.A.), and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D, cum laude). At Georgetown, Mr. Markovic was the Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and received the Law Center's Tutorial Award in recognition of his contributions to the Law Center's academic program.
Prior to joining the Temple University Beasley School of Law, Mr. Markovic was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP and Baker Hostetler LLP in New York City. At Sidley Austin, Mr. Markovic practiced in the areas of complex commercial litigation and international trade and arbitration. He also had an active pro bono practice that included the representation of asylum seekers in removal proceedings and the prosecution of actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. At Baker Hostetler, Mr. Markovic primarily assisted with international litigation strategy on behalf of the Trustee for the liquidation of the business of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC.
In 2007, Mr. Markovic served as a law clerk in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
Mr. Markovic's primary research interests are in the fields of international law, legal ethics, and jurisprudence. His essay Can Lawyers Be War Criminals?, 20 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 347 (2008), has been cited in prepared testimony before the House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Markovic has also written on legal issues for the National Post and Globe and Mail newspapers in Canada and the on-line magazine Slate.
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David Strifling (2010-2012)
Klein Hall, Room 505
tel: 215-204-4893
fax: 215-204-1185
striflin@temple.edu
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David Strifling comes to Temple from Harvard Law School where he obtained his LL.M. degree. Prior to his transition to academia, he practiced at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializing in environmental permitting and litigation. He had a leadership role in the representation of a paper manufacturer at a billion-dollar contaminated sediment site, drafted new environmental ordinances for American Indian tribes, and worked with corporate clients to manage environmental liabilities and permit transfers during acquisition and divestiture transactions. Mr. Strifling also maintained a regular appellate practice before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, utilizing his past experience as the sole law clerk for Justice David T. Prosser during the Wisconsin Supreme Court's 2004-2005 term. He also has worked with other state and federal appellate judges, including the Hon. Diane S. Sykes and Hon. John L. Coffey. Before entering the practice of law, Mr. Strifling had five years of experience as a civil and environmental engineer with an emphasis in water supply management and wastewater conveyance and treatment. He remains a licensed professional engineer.
Mr. Strifling received both his J.D., magna cum laude, and his B.S. in civil and environmental engineering, magna cum laude, from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as Articles Editor of the Marquette Law Review and as a member of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. His recent scholarship has focused on environmental governance regimes for nanotechnology and on the implications of climate change for invasive species control.
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