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Dr. Debra M. Strauss

Associate Professor of Business Law
dstrauss@fairfield.edu
o: Dolan School of Business Rm 2118
p: x3160

Honors

  • Food & Drug Law Institute Scholar
  • Helen A. Snyder Graduate Fellowship
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University
  • Articles Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review
  • Judicial Clerkship, Honorable Charles L. Brieant, Chief Judge/District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Meeting, 2012: "Achieving the Food Safety Mandate: Bringing the USDA to the Table"
  • The George E. Lang, Jr. Award, Connecticut State Conference-AAUP, 2011
  • Best Paper Award, North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Meeting, 2008: "Reaching Out to the International Community: Civil Lawsuits as the Common Ground in the Battle against Terrorism"

Grants

  • "The Role of Courts, Agencies, and Congress in GMOs: A Multilateral Approach to Ensuring the Safety of the Food Supply," DSB Summer Research Stipend, 2011
  • "Law and Society Program Development," Humanities Institute Grant, 2011
  • “Patentability of Life: Reconsidering the Grant of Intellectual Property Rights for Genetically Modified Organisms” and “The Application of TRIPS to GMOs: International Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology”. Fairfield University Pre-tenure Research Leave, 2008
  • “Critical Pedagogy and Course Development in International Studies”; Course development, “International Law and Ethics of Genetically Modified Food”. Humanities Institute Grant, 2008
  • “Feast or Famine: The Impact of the WTO Decision Favoring the U.S. Biotechnology Industry in the EU Ban of GM Foods”. DSB Summer Research Stipend, 2007