Popular
Texas professor to serve as visiting lecturer
Colon-Navarro
will spend a year teaching in Charleston
JUNE 8 , 2005 -- Fernando Colon-Navarro, a popular
law professor and associate dean at the Thurgood Marshall School
of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, will serve as
a visiting professor at the Charleston School of Law during the
2005-06 academic year, Dean Richard Gershon announced today.
Colon-Navarro |
Colon-Navarro, named Professor of the Year several
times by Hispanic students at the Houston school, will teach immigration
law and civil procedure, Gershon said. He also was named Outstanding
Visiting Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
in 2000. This summer, Colon-Navarro is a visiting professor for
the second time at La Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de
Puerto Rico where he is teaching a popular course in immigration
law.
"We are fortunate to have a visiting professor
of Fernando's quality teaching in Charleston in the coming year,"
Gershon said. "He brings strong teaching credentials and
fresh perspectives that will be highly rewarding and motivating
for our students."
Colon-Navarro, who has taught at the Marshall school
since 1991, directed the Harvard Law School Immigration Clinic
from 1987 to 1991. Prior to that, he served as an attorney with
the Chicago Board of Education and the Mexican-American Legal
Defense and Education Fund.
He holds a law degree from the University of Minnesota
Law School and completed a master's degree in law at Harvard Law
School. He also holds a master's in education from Harvard and
a bachelor's degree from St. John's University.
###
