Georgetown University Law Center Professor Richard Chused has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to teach at Hebrew University in Jerusalem next fall.

Chused, who specializes in property and copyright law, will be offering two seminars at Hebrew University which sits on Mt. Scopus in Eastern Jerusalem. One will be a comparative study of Israeli and American copyright law and the other will focus on gender and law in American legal history.

He also hopes to compare and contrast American and Israeli family and human rights law. Classes are instructed in English, so language is not expected to be a barrier.

For the past 30 years, Chused has taught property to first-year law students along with a seminar concerning gender in legal history.

“In fact in law school I really disliked my property courses. But when I began teaching at Rutgers University Law School I did a lot of clinical teaching in landlord-tenant court and in major zoning law reform case,” he said. “That convinced me the subject was really interesting if taught right.”

Hebrew University was the perfect destination for some work abroad, according to Chused. “I am acquainted with some people on the faculty there. They welcome international visitors and were interested in my fields of expertise,” he said.

He and his wife, who belong to a conservative Jewish congregation in Washington, D.C., are also looking forward to spending some time in Israel, touring and learning a bit of Hebrew. His wife will take a five-month leave from her solo law practice in the District for the trip.

The pair plans to depart in early September and return at the end of January.

The Fulbright Program was started in 1946 under a Senate resolution sponsored by Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.). It is administered by the State Department and according to its founder, “aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.”