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ELLEN MARRUS JAMES D. NELSON
Emeritus Faculty Vinson & Elkins Professorship
Associate Professor of Law and Business
B.A., Kean College
J.D., University of San Francisco B.A., University of Virginia
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center J.D., University of Virginia Law School
James Nelson is Associate Professor of Law and
Ellen Marrus teaches in the areas of juvenile Business at the University of Houston Law Center.
law, professional responsibility, children and He also holds an appointment at the C. T. Bauer
the law, and practice skills. She concentrates College of Business at the University of Houston.
her scholarship in the areas of children’s rights, His recent work on corporate law, governance,
juvenile justice, and professionalism. Professor and rights has been published in the Columbia Law
Marrus also directed and taught in the clinical Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law
programs at the UH Law Center for 10 years. Review, and the Harvard Business Law Review.
She currently directs the Center for Children,
Law & Policy at the UH Law Center. Professor Prior to joining the Law Center, Professor Nelson
Marrus serves on various local and national was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Corporate Governance
boards, including the National Juvenile Defender at Columbia Law School. He has also been a Fellow
Center, the Southwest Regional Juvenile Defender at the Millstein Center for Global Markets and
Center, the Center for Urban Transformation, the Corporate Ownership, Research Director of the
Houston Association of Counsel for Children, and Project on Corporate Political Spending at Harvard
the Clinical Legal Education Association. Law School, Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law
School, and Editor-at-Large of Columbia Law
School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital
Markets.
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