Hofstra Law Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky, Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to conduct research and teaching in Brazil for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad. Fulbright scholars also play a critical role in U.S. public diplomacy, establishing long-term relationships between people and nations.
Professor Yaroshefsky will conduct research on comparative perspectives between the United States and Brazil on aspects of the exercise of prosecutorial discretion with the graduate program in Justice and Security at the Federal Fluminense University in Niteroi Brazil. Her research will focus on the significant issues of plea bargaining and charging decisions.
“I hope that my research and teaching will be a significant contribution to academic institutions and more broadly, to the prosecutors, judges, academics, students and policy makers in Brazil who will need to consider the development of standards and ethics rules for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in these areas,” said Professor Yaroshefsky. “Such standards do not currently exist in Brazil.”
She will also teach classes, lecture and discuss her work at roundtables and meetings on topics including an overview of the U.S. criminal justice system; the role of the prosecutor; selected ethical issues for prosecutors; plea bargaining in the US; and standards for the prosecution function.
“I hope that my scholarship can also encourage wider international collaboration in dealing with these most challenging issues,” said Professor Yaroshefsky.
Professor Yaroshefsky teaches a range of ethics courses, organizes symposia and writes and lectures in the field of legal ethics. She counsels lawyers and law firms and serves as an expert witness. Professor Yaroshefsky served as a Commissioner on the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics and was the co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Ethics, Gideon and Professionalism Committee of the Criminal Justice Section.
She serves on the New York State Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, on ethics committees of state and local bar associations and currently co-chairs the Ethics Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges. Notable Fulbrighters include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 80 MacArthur Fellows, 41 heads of state or government, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
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