New assistant dean focuses on international students

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As it continues to enhance its graduate and international programs, the University at Buffalo School of Law has named a longtime faculty member to the newly created post of assistant dean for international and graduate student support.

Johanna Oreskovic will assume her new administrative role immediately. Her appointment was announced by Professor S. Todd Brown, vice dean for academic affairs.

As assistant dean, Oreskovic will be responsible for providing academic support to the School of Law’s international and graduate student population, which includes students in the traditional three-year J.D. program, those who are part of the school’s two-year J.D. program for international students, and students in the academic master of laws program.

All School of Law students have a full complement of academic support available to them, Brown noted, but Oreskovic’s work will supplement that support for international and graduate students. She will also provide non-academic guidance and mentorship to those students.

Oreskovic also will be responsible for:

  • Teaching a summer English module for non-native speakers;
  • Teaching Introduction to U.S. Legal Systems, a course required for master of laws students;
  • Advising students on issues ranging from specific academic challenges to housing to visa-related work issues to course selection.

Oreskovic administered the school’s master of laws programs from 2000 to 2008. She will continue as a lecturer in the school’s rigorous Legal Analysis, Writing and Research program, which teaches all students the fundamentals of legal thinking.

A 1997 graduate of the UB School of Law, Oreskovic also holds a bachelor of arts degree, a master of arts degree in history, and a master’s degree in education from UB. In law school, she served as book review editor of the Buffalo Law Review.

Oreskovic has taught at the Law School since 1998. Before entering the legal profession, she taught history and English and served as an administrator at several independent secondary schools, including the Buffalo Seminary, the American School in Switzerland and John Burroughs School in St. Louis.

She has been associated with the Buffalo law firms Hodgson Russ and Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham and Coppola, concentrating her practice in commercial and employment litigation. Her publications include articles on labor law and adoption law.