Faculty - The Hague, Netherlands

FACULTY:

WEEK 1:  June 30-July 3, 2025:  ACCESS TO LEGAL INFORMATION, THE COURTS, AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS   (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR:   Ashley Krenalka Chase, Assistant Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida

Ashley Krenelka Chase currently teaches legal research and writing, after nearly a decade of teaching advanced research and technology courses.

Previously, Ashley was the Associate Director of the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library the Coordinator of Legal Practice Technology at Stetson, where she worked with faculty to identify technology competencies for incoming and outgoing students and to ensure student success during law school and in the practice of law. Ashley’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of research, technology, and access to justice for incarcerated litigants.

Professor Chase received her B.A. degree from Bradley University, her M.A. from the University of South Florida, and her JD from the University of Dayton School of Law.

 

WEEK 2:  July 7-10, 2025:   COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL COURTS  (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR:   Steven Friedland, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar/Director of the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law, Elon University School of Law,
Greensboro, North Carolina

Steve Friedland is a founding member of the law school faculty who taught at the law schools of the University of Georgia, Miami, Nova Southeastern and Georgia State before coming to Elon Law. In addition to law teaching, Friedland has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and as an Assistant Director of the Office of Legal Education in the Department of Justice.

Friedland is an accomplished scholar who has published articles in such journals as the Northwestern U. Law Journal, the Duke Law Journal (online), the Washington & Lee Law Review, and the Stanford Law & Policy Review. His books on Evidence Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure and Law School Teaching have been published by the West Publishing Company, Aspen Press, Lexis Publishing Company and Carolina Academic Press.

Friedland was elected to the American Law Institute, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council, and is a current member of the Lexis Advisory Board. He has won numerous teaching awards at several law schools over three decades and was named one of the best law teachers in America by the Harvard University Press book, What the Best Law Teachers Do. He is an internationally known speaker on legal education who has worked with the Japan Legal Foundation to develop law schools in Japan, and with Afghanistan law schools to improve the rule of law in that country pursuant to a USAID initiative. He has lectured to thousands of students across the country preparing for the bar exam. Friedland holds a juris doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, as well as a master of law and doctor of the science of law degrees from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Dollard Fellow in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry.

 

WEEK 3:  July 14-17, 2025:   INTERNATIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY  (1 credit) 
INSTRUCTOR:   Jessica M. Moeller, Assistant Dean of Experiential Learning and Visiting Professor of Law, Charleston School of Law, Charleston, South Carolina

Prior to moving to Charleston, Jessica Moeller served as the Director of the Criminal Justice Department at Wisconsin Lutheran College, where she taught a variety of classes for students entering the field of criminal justice as lawyers, officers, and forensic scientists.

Before Moeller moved over to full time academia, she had been a litigator for the last decade. Most recently Moeller worked in local government advising the Department of Human Services and the Clerk of Courts in Waukesha County, as well as the Department of Public Health during the recent global pandemic, developing vaccination roll out by the county. She also litigated Elder Abuse prosecutions and mental health commitments, and continues to provide trainings for lawyers, judges, social workers, and doctors throughout the state of Wisconsin on best practices in Mental Health and Elder Law.

Prior to working in local government, Moeller was a Criminal Defense Attorney with the Wisconsin State Public Defender for 7 years, representing a variety of indigent clients, in criminal and civil cases. Ultimately Moeller specialized in youth representation at the Vel Phillips Juvenile Justice Center and was a member of the State training team, assisting new lawyers with their development of trial skills.

Moeller continues her interest in advocacy, even though not actively engaged in litigating cases currently, and serves on the Board of the Wisconsin State Bar’s Civil Rights and Liberties Section. Moeller remains admitted to active practice with the Wisconsin State Bar, as well as the Western District of Wisconsin’s Federal Bar.

WEEK 4:  July 21-24, 2025:   ADMINISTRATIVE ADVOCACY IN PRACTICE  (1 credit) 
INSTRUCTOR:   Katherene E. Holtzinger Conner, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Residency Program, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, North Carolina

Professor Conner has held the position of Director of Residency Program since 2019.  In that role, she has supervision and administrative oversight of Elon's full time and fully immersive experiential learning program, that is referred to as Residency, or Residency in Practice. Residency is required for all students, who - in their 2 L year- will spend ten weeks working with a judge or in a law office for ten weeks.  

In her prior experience with hearing and adjudicating cases for an administrative agency, she learned the importance of understanding the scope and extent of issues that are heard and decided by administrative agencies. Her time in an administrative judicial role underscored to her the enormous value of practical experience.  She had many young attorneys appearing before her learning how to present evidence, examine and cross examine witnesses, advocate for an outcome on behalf of their client. It was excellent training for newly admitted attorneys to see a case develop from beginning to end, experience that they could use to platform to more advanced roles in government or private practice. Professor Conner developed the Administrative Advocacy class to blend the subject area of administrative law, due process, pretrial procedures in litigation, and admissibility of evidence with practical experience, learning the law by practicing the law.