Prof. Anjum Gupta Elected to CLEA Board
Immigrant Rights Clinic director has major planning role in upcoming conference on immigrant detainees and first-ever workshop for immigration clinicians. | Read Story
Marvin Chirelstein of Columbia Law to Deliver Axelrod Lecture on February 27
Corporate law and tax scholar will discuss “Teaching and Learning Contracts: The Current Debate.” | Read Story
2L Wins NYSBA International Law Writing Competition
Casey Watkins ’13 examines the legal framework for governing Antarctic whaling and stock management. | Read Story
Patton Boggs Foundation Adds Law School to Public Policy Fellowship Program
Recipients will have demonstrated commitment to public service and developed interest in public policy. | Read Story
Rutgers Professor Proposes Legislative Reform to Address High Rate of Intestacy
Reid Weisbord wants to simplify, promote greater access to will-making process by attaching optional testamentary schedule to state income tax return. | Read Story
A Winter Break of Public Service and Lessons in the Creation of a Non-Profit
On a week-long trip to the Dominican Republic, 13 Rutgers School of Law–Newark students helped build a home for a local family and establish a non-profit that will send physical therapists to underserved communities around the world. The concept for the Winter Session grew out of an earlier service trip to the country by Associate Dean Andy Rothman ’90 and his wife, Dr. Beth Rothman, a college professor and long-time physical therapist. The Rothmans envisioned a return trip with students from the law school, UMDNJ, and NJIT that would combine clinical training and education with community building and construction. After working on “the build” with people from the village, Rutgers students studied non-profit corporations law, Dr. Rothman and the UMDNJ students treated villagers with various physical impairments and injuries, and the NJIT team explored introducing new technologies that would improve public health. In working to develop the new non-profit, the law students experienced “collaborative lawyering” in a way not possible in the traditional classroom. | Read Story
