Seton Hall University Thursday, March 11, 2021 By Michael Ricciardelli Law Professor Jonathan Hafetz and Professor of French and Spanish Matthew Escobar were named Fulbright Scholars. Fulbright is held as the most widely recognized and prestigious international exchange program in the world. According to Fulbright, which is a program of the U.S. Department of State, In September 1945, the freshman senator from Arkansas, J. William Fulbright, introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress that called for the use of proceeds from the sales of surplus war property to fund the "promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture and science." One year later, President Harry S. Truman signed the Fulbright Act into law.