Education: B.A., Duke University J.D., Antioch School of Law
Professor Fullerton is an expert on procedural law, focusing on federal jurisdiction in
the United States as well as on refugee and asylum systems in many countries around the
world. She has pursued research in these fields overseas, first as a Fulbright Scholar in
Belgium and Germany, later as a German Marshall Fund Fellow in Hungary, and in 2001-2002
as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Spain. She
has served as a Reporter for Human Rights Watch and has headed several human rights
missions in Germany. She has also been a consultant for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, and has been active in projects providing support to Refugee
Law Clinics in Eastern Europe. Among Professor Fullerton's most recent works is her
co-authored casebook, Forced Migration : Law and Policy (2007). She has also co-edited
Refugee Law Reader: Cases, Documents, and Materials (2006), an on-line resource for legal
scholars, teachers, students, and advocates. Other recent publications include “The
Protection of Refugees Under International and National Law," a chapter in the Guide
to International Human Rights Practice (2004),and articles on the developing European
Union asylum policy, on migration in Spain and the United States, and on challenges
facing transnational legal education. She has written books concerning Germany’s refugee
policies for Human Rights Watch, and has co-edited three volumes concerning migration in
Hungary, Diasporas and Politics (2001), From Improvisation Toward Awareness (1997), and
Refugees and Migrants: Hungary at a Crossroads (1995). Prior to joining the faculty in
1980, she was Law Clerk to Judge Francis Van Dusen of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit and to Judge Frank Johnson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the
Middle District of Alabama.
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