V
e r a B e r g e l s o n
Professor of Law and Robert E. Knowlton Scholar
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353-3145
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Professor Bergelson
earned her diploma in Slavic languages and literatures with distinction
from Moscow State University and her Ph.D. in philology from the Institute
of Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow, Russia. She earned her J.D. cum
laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law
School, where she was on the Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif.Professor Bergelson has been a
lecturer at Moscow State University, the Polish Cultural Center,
and the Literary Institute in Moscow. Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2001,
she was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New
York for six years. She is fluent in Russian and Polish and
has a reading proficiency in Bulgarian, Belorussian, and Ukranian.Among Professor Bergelson's
publications are "It's Personal But Is It Mine? Toward Property Rights in Personal Information,"
in the U.C. Davis Law Review (2003); "Victims and Perpetrators: An Argument for Comparative Liability in Criminal
Law," a forum paper, and "Conditional Rights and Comparative Wrongs: More on the Theory and Application of
Comparative Criminal Liability," a reply to commentators, both in the Buffalo Criminal
Law Review (2005); "The Right to Be Hurt: Testing the Boundaries of Consent," in
the George Washington Law Review (2007); and "Rights, Wrongs, and Comparative Justifications" in
the Cardozo Law Review (2007). Her book
Victims, Offenders, and Comparative Responsibility
is due to be published by Stanford University Press in 2008. In addition, she is an author
of a chapter for a collective work, The Ethics of Consent:
Theory and Practice (Alan
Wertheimer and Franklin G. Miller, eds.), to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
