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JUVENILE JUSTICE PROFESSORS NAMED FULBRIGHT
Professor Ellen Marrus spent part of her summer speaking at and SCHOLARS
attending the 2018 World Congress on Justice for Children in Paris.
The congress met to discuss violent extremism and concerns within the University of Houston Law Center Professors Renee Knake and Sapna
juvenile and family justice system. Kumar were awarded Fulbright
Marrus, Director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy and Royce grants to conduct research in
Till Professor of Law at UHLC, gave a presentation on holistic lawyering their specialty areas in Australia
and the necessity of collaboration between relevant agencies titled, “The and Europe respectively
Role of the Lawyer for Children in Conflict with the Law.” beginning the 2019 winter
semester.
“Providing information on a model of representation that I
believe in, and having it so well received by advocates from many Knake, the Law Center’s Joanne
different countries, was exhilarating,” Marrus said. “Quality, zealous and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal
representation for children can make a world of difference for each Ethics and director of Outcomes
individual child it touches.” and Assessments, was awarded
the Fulbright Distinguished
Chair in Entrepreneurship
and Innovation at the Royal
Melbourne Institute of
Technology. Professor Renee Knake
She will research Australian
innovations in access to justice and legal ethics from January through
July as part of a forthcoming book project, “Law Democratized: A
Blueprint for Access to Justice.”
“I’m incredibly humbled and thankful to be selected for such an
important international award, and I look forward to sharing the
amazing work we do at the
University of Houston with the
global community of Fulbright
scholars,” said Knake.
Kumar, Law Foundation
Professor of Law and co-director
of the Institute for Intellectual
Property and Information Law,
was selected as a Fulbright-
University of Houston Law Center Professor Ellen Marrus is Schuman Research Scholar and
introduced to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the awarded an innovation grant. She
United Kingdom. will spend five months in Europe,
including four at the Max
Planck Institute for Innovation
More than 300 proposals were submitted for a small number of available and Competition in Munich,
spots to speak at this congress. The opportunity helped Marrus further Germany, researching the formation of Professor Sapna Kumar
her research and connect with juvenile justice advocates from around Europe’s Unified Patent Court.
the world.
Prior to her time in Paris, Marrus served as a visiting professor at “I am honored to have been selected by the Fulbright Commission and
grateful for the Law Center for providing me with research leave to
Swansea University’s law school during the Spring 2018 semester. pursue this project,” Kumar said. “I have been learning German for the
The school was recently renamed the Hillary Rodham Clinton College past four years and am looking forward to putting my skills to good use.”
of Law in honor of the former U.S. Secretary of State, presidential
candidate, senator and first lady. Marrus had the opportunity to meet At the Law Center, Knake teaches Constitutional Law and Professional
Clinton during the school’s renaming ceremony. Responsibility; Kumar teaches Patent Law, Federal Courts,
Administrative Law and Property.

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