Tokarz in South Africa as Fulbright Senior Specialist

Karen Tokarz, the Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Public Service and director of the law school’s Dispute Resolution Program, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialist project in Durban, South Africa at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal. Tokarz, who also is a professor of African and African American Studies, will assist the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal in developing a framework for a master’s program in conflict resolution and mediation.

She is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Senior Specialists program. The program provides short-term academic opportunities to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post-secondary academic institutions around the world.

Additionally, Jo Ellen Lewis, senior lecturer in law, was approved as Fulbright Senior Specialist in fall 2007 for a five-year period. Among her international work, Lewis has served as a visiting lecturer in Japan. She also has been invited to teach a short course in the Global Legal Studies program at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal in fall 2008. 

Previously, Washington University Law faculty members and administrators have been awarded Fulbright grants for a variety of placements, including in Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Korea, Nepal, Portugal, Spain, and Suriname.