Rutgers School of Law—Newark
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Rutgers School of Law–Newark is the oldest of three law school
Law school
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s in the U.S. state of New Jersey
New Jersey
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. It is located at the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice, at 123 Washington Street, in downtown Newark
Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...

. Founded in 1908 as the New Jersey Law School, it merged with the University of Newark in 1936, which later became part of Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

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The school is accredited by the American Bar Association
American Bar Association
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; is a member of the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
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; and is registered with the Board of Regents of the State of New York. On September 9, 2008, the law school celebrated its centennial.

Academics

The J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

 program at Rutgers requires a total of 84 credits to graduate. The 1L curriculum requires traditional courses in Torts, Contracts, Property, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Legal Research & Writing. Second semester 1Ls are also required to choose an elective. All required 1L courses are graded on a standard B-curve. Rutgers ensures that students have a 'small section' class as 1Ls, taking one core class taught by a tenured faculty member and limited to the roughly 30 people in a student's track (with whom they also take all other first year courses). Admitted students may choose to attend Rutgers law classes on either a full-time or part-time basis. The 2008 edition of the ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools notes that 251 1L's began at Rutgers last year, with 73% entering on a full-time basis.
Rutgers law students may choose to pursue a number of joint degrees. These include:

- J.D./M.B.A. with Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School is the graduate and undergraduate business school tied to the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in 1929.Rutgers Business School offers bachelor, masters, and Ph.D. degrees...

.

- J.D./M.A. in Criminal Justice with the School of Criminal Justice.

- J.D./M.C.R.P. in City and Regional Planning with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University serves as a center for the theory and practice of urban planning and public policy scholarship. The school is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was named in honor of the former Rutgers University president,...

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- J.D./M.S.W. with the Rutgers School of Social Work.

- J.D./M.D. in conjunction with the UMDNJ
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

-New Jersey Medical School
New Jersey Medical School
New Jersey Medical School is one of eight schools that comprise the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey . NJMS is the oldest school of medicine in New Jersey, predating its broader parent institution, UMDNJ, by 16 years...

.

Admissions

Rutgers' selective admissions are administered with a process that offers applicants a choice between competing for admission based primarily on traditional measures such as LSAT scores and college GPAs, or, alternatively, on the basis of an applicant's life experience, with a lesser (though still significant) emphasis placed on traditional factors. Factors that may be considered in the Rutgers admissions process include, but are not limited to, work experience, personal accomplishments, and other aspects of the applicant's personal background.

Rutgers' unique admissions process is particularly significant when contrasted with the efforts of other law schools to maximize the undergraduate GPA and LSAT scores of their incoming classes in order to improve their standing in popular law school ranking publications.

Ranking

The Law School is ranked as a "Tier 1" school by the 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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s "Best Grad Schools." Rutgers Law–Newark is ranked 84th overall in the 2011 U.S. News Law rankings, tied with nine additional schools. The Law School is ranked 54th in Super Lawyers' 2010 U.S. Law School Rankings.

The 2007 edition of the Best 170 Law Schools by Princeton Review ranks the law school as having the tenth most diverse faculty and being the third most welcoming to older students.

Journals

The law school has five student journals:
  • Rutgers Law Review
    Rutgers Law Review
    The Rutgers Law Review is a quarterly scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, published by an organization of second and third year law students at Rutgers School of Law. It is the flagship law review among the five accredited law journals at Rutgers School of Law...

  • Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal
    Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal
    The Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, founded in 1969 at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, is the world's oldest and longest running academic journal dealing with the interaction of law and technology. It is a student run, law review style publication, and two issues are published each year...

    , the first journal in the country to address the interaction between computers, technology and the law.
  • Women's Rights Law Reporter
    Women's Rights Law Reporter
    The Women's Rights Law Reporter is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Rutgers School of Law—Newark. The journal provides a forum for exploring law and public policy relating to women’s rights and gender. The journal is published quarterly...

    , the first journal in the country to focus on women's rights. Co-founded by former Rutgers Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice and the first Jewish female justice.She is generally viewed as belonging to...

    .
  • Rutgers Race and the Law Review
  • Rutgers Law Record, the first legal journal to be published entirely online.


Additionally, there are two unaccredited journals:

Clinics

Rutgers School of Law - Newark provides extensive clinical education and legal services in its eight clinics, listed below.
  • Child Advocacy Clinic
  • Community Law Clinic
  • Constitutional Litigation Clinic
  • Environmental Law Clinic
  • Federal Tax Law Clinic
  • Special Education Clinic
  • Urban Legal Clinic
  • Women's Rights Litigation Clinic


Rutgers School of Law - Newark was the first law school in New Jersey to provide for clinical education.

Diversity

The Law School is committed to enrolling a diverse student body. As of 2011, students of color account for 41% of the student body, well above the percentages at peer schools such as Seton Hall (8%), Fordham (14%), Cardozo (10%) and Brooklyn (12%).

The Minority Student Program "provides mentoring, internships, and academic support to students who, regardless of race or ethnic origin, can demonstrate disadvantage through a history of socio-economic, educational, cultural, or other disadvantage."

Notable alumni

The law school is reputed for its prominent alumni throughout high levels of the federal government, academia, the judiciary, politics, private practice, and public interest practice. Some of the most prominent include:

Judicial

  • Harold Ackerman (1928-2009), United States District Judge, District of New Jersey, 1979-2008.
  • Raymond L. Acosta
    Raymond L. Acosta
    Raymond L. Acosta was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Acosta received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1951. He was in private practice of law in Hackensack, New Jersey from 1953–54, and was then a special agent at the F.B.I. field office in San Diego,...

    , United States District Judge, District of Puerto Rico
  • Renee Marie Bumb
    Renee Marie Bumb
    Renee Marie Bumb is a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She joined the court in 2006 after being nominated by President George W...

    , United States District Judge, District of New Jersey
  • Robert E. Cowen, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Barry Kamins
    Barry Kamins
    Barry Kamins is a New York City Criminal Court Judge as well as an adjunct professor at the Fordham University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School.- Education :...

    , New York City Criminal Court Judge.
  • Jaynee LaVecchia
    Jaynee LaVecchia
    Jaynee LaVecchia is a Justice who was nominated to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court on January 6, 2000. She was accepted by the New Jersey Senate and sat until 2007 when her term expired...

    , Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
  • Virginia Long
    Virginia Long
    Virginia Long is a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.- Biography :Virginia Long graduated from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and Rutgers School of Law—Newark in 1966. She has served as a Deputy Attorney General and was the Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer...

    , Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
  • William Martini, United States District Court Judge, District of New Jersey.
  • Morris Pashman
    Morris Pashman
    Morris Pashman was an American Republican Party politician and attorney who served as Mayor of Passaic, New Jersey before spending 23 years as a judge, 10 of them on the New Jersey Supreme Court...

     (1912–1999), New Jersey Supreme Court
    New Jersey Supreme Court
    The New Jersey Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It has existed in three different forms under the three different state constitutions since the independence of the state in 1776...

     Justice who served as mayor of Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...

     from 1951 to 1955.
  • Sylvia Pressler
    Sylvia Pressler
    Sylvia Pressler was an American judge who served in a number of positions within the New Jersey judicial system...

    , Former Chief Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, and Editor of the New Jersey Court Rules.
  • Esther Salas
    Esther Salas
    Esther Salas is currently a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey sitting in Newark, New Jersey, which she joined in 2006. On June 14, 2011, the United States Senate confirmed Salas to a life judgeship on the Court...

    , United States District Judge, District of New Jersey; the first Hispanic woman to be appointed a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey, after being the first such Magistrate Judge.
  • Diana L. Terry, Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals.
  • Freda L. Wolfson, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey
  • James Yates
    James Yates
    James A. Yates is an American lawyer and judge from New York. He had been appointed general counsel to the Governor of New York, David Paterson, in 2008, but Yates ultimately decided to remain a judge instead. The appointment had come as a surprise, as the two are not close associates.Yates...

    , Judge, New York Supreme Court. Former Speaker of the New York Assembly.

Academia

  • Frank Askin
    Frank Askin
    Frank Askin is an American jurist and professor of law at Rutgers School of Law - Newark. He was as appointed to the Rutgers faculty upon his graduation from that school with highest honors in 1966. Admitted to the law school without an undergraduate degree, he was awarded a B.A. from City College...

    , Professor Law, Rutgers School of Law- Newark. Former ACLU General Counsel. Current Director of Constitutional Litigation Clinic.
  • Paula Berg, Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law.
  • Douglas Colbert, Professor Law, University of Maryland School of Law.
  • Mary Cheh
    Mary Cheh
    thumb|right|Mary Cheh in 2010Mary M. Cheh is a Democratic politician from Washington, D.C. In November 2006, she won a seat on the Washington, D.C. City Council representing Ward 3.-Background and family:...

    , Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School. Washington, D.C. City Council member.
  • Ronald Chen
    Ronald Chen
    Ronald Chen was, until January 2010, the New Jersey Public Advocate. He was nominated to fill the position on January 5, 2006, by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine. He was the first Public Advocate to serve in the post since 1994, when the job was abolished by former Governor Christine Todd Whitman...

    , former Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey, Vice-Dean of Rutgers School of Law, Newark.
  • Patience Crowder, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Founder, Community Economic Development Clinic.
  • Bernard K. Freamon, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School.
  • Louise A. Halper (1944-2008), Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law.
  • Diana J. Hassel, Professor of Law, Rogers Williams University School of Law.
  • Wade Henderson
    Wade Henderson
    Wade Henderson is president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and counsel to the Leadership Conference Education Fund.The Leadership Conference is a civil and human rights coalition, charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and...

    , President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
    Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
    The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , formerly called The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, is an umbrella group of American civil rights interest groups.-Organizational history:...

    ; Counsel to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund; Professor of Law, Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia.
  • John R. Kettle III, Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
  • Jules Lobel, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Constitutional rights litigator and scholar. President, Center for Constitutional Rights.
  • David W. Mills, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. White collar defense litigator.
  • Louis Raveson, Professor of Law and Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Expert in the law of evidence and noted litigator.
  • Kathleen M. Ridolfi, Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law School; Director, Northern California Innocence Project.
  • Marci Seville, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University Law School; Founder and Director, Women's Employment Rights Clinic.
  • Alfred Slocum, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers School of Law- Newark; former Public Advocate of New Jersey, and former Executive Director of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity.
  • Elizabeth Warren
    Elizabeth Warren
    Elizabeth Warren is an American bankruptcy expert, policy advocate, Harvard Law School professor, and Democratic Party candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. She has written several academic and popular books concerning the American economy and personal finance. She...

    , Harvard Law School professor; candidate for United States Senate (D-MA); Chair of the Congressional Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) oversight panel; author, contributing editor to the Huffington Post.

Public Service

  • Michael Patrick Carroll
    Michael Patrick Carroll
    Michael Patrick Carroll is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey. He represents the 25th legislative district, first taking office in 1996....

    , New Jersey State Assemblyman (R-25th Dist).
  • Ida Castro, former Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence,...

    .
  • Anthony R. Coscia, Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  • Zulima Farber
    Zulima Farber
    Zulima Farber is the former Attorney General of New Jersey and the first Latina to serve as Acting Governor of New Jersey. She was appointed to the position in 2006 by Governor Jon Corzine...

    , Former Attorney General and Public Advocate of New Jersey.
  • Louis Freeh
    Louis Freeh
    Louis Joseph Freeh was the 5th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving from September 1993 to June 2001....

    , FBI Director 1993-2001; appointed by President Clinton. Federal District Judge, Southern District of New York (Manhattan) 1991-1993, appointed by President Bush.
  • Richard J. Hughes
    Richard J. Hughes
    Richard Joseph Hughes was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 45th Governor of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970, and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1973–1979...

    , Former Governor of New Jersey, and Former Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
  • Cornelius Augustine McGlennon
    Cornelius Augustine McGlennon
    Cornelius Augustine McGlennon was an American Democratic Party politician who represented from 1919 to 1921.-Biography:...

     (1878–1931), represented from 1919 to 1921, and was Mayor of East Newark from 1907 to 1919.
  • Robert Menendez
    Robert Menendez
    Robert "Bob" Menendez is the junior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jon Corzine, who resigned upon being elected Governor of New Jersey. Menendez was elected to his own full...

    , United States Senator (D-NJ). Class of 1979.
  • Sybil Moses
    Sybil Moses
    Sybil Rappaport Moses was an American lawyer and judge. She was the prosecutor for the "Dr. X" murder trial of Mario Jascalevich, only four years after she graduated from law school...

     (c. 1939-2009), Prosecutor of the "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich
    Mario Jascalevich
    The "Dr. X" killings were a series of suspicious deaths, by curare poisoning, in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital. A newspaper investigation during the mid-1960s led to the indictment of an Argentina-born physician, Mario Enrique Jascalevich , in 1976...

     murder case and New Jersey Superior Court
    New Jersey Superior Court
    The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with state-wide trial and appellate jurisdiction. The Superior Court has three divisions: the Appellate Division is essentially an intermediate appellate court while the Law and Chancery Divisions function as trial courts...

     judge.
  • A. Harry Moore
    A. Harry Moore
    Arthur Harry Moore was a Democrat who was the 39th Governors of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941. He was the longest-serving New Jersey Governor in the 20th century and the only New Jersey Governor elected to serve three separate non-consecutive terms...

    , Former United States Senator and Governor of New Jersey.
  • Hazel R. O'Leary, Former United States Secretary of Energy and President of Fisk University
    Fisk University
    Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to...

    .
  • Robert Torricelli
    Robert Torricelli
    Robert Guy Torricelli , nicknamed "the Torch," is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democrat, served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate...

    , Former United States Senator (D-NJ).
  • Peter Rodino, noted United States Congressman (D-NJ), 1949-1989.
  • Clifford Gregory Stewart, former General Counsel
    General Counsel
    A general counsel is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department. The term is most used in the United States...

    , Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence,...

    .

Public Interest

  • Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
    New York Civil Liberties Union
    The New York Civil Liberties Union is an civil rights organization in the United States. Founded in 1951 as the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, it is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization with nearly 50,000 members across New York State.NYCLU's stated mission is to...

    .
  • Lois Whitman, founder and director of Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and it has offices in Berlin, Beirut, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo,...

    's Children's Rights Division.

Private Practice

  • Ann Berger Lesk, head of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP trusts and estates department in New York City, and President of the New York County Lawyers' Association.
  • Joseph A. Hayden Jr., noted trial attorney. Partner, Walder Hayden & Brogan, P.A.
  • Harold Braff, noted trial attorney and mediator.

Business and others

  • Lawrence E. Bathgate, II, Republican businessman and political power-broker
  • George McPhee
    George McPhee
    George McPhee is the general manager of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals as well as the team's alternate governor and vice president...

    , Vice President and General Manager, Washington Capitals (NHL)
  • Paul S. Miller, former Chairman of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Special Counsel to Kaye Scholer LLP, '100 Most Influential Lawyers in America' listing by National Law Journal.
  • Ozzie Nelson
    Ozzie Nelson
    Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.-Early life:...

    , Entertainer.
  • Lynne Stewart
    Lynne Stewart
    Lynne Irene Stewart is a former attorney who represented controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants who was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically...

    , Prominent lawyer and civil rights activist. Convicted of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist client.

See also

  • Henry Rutgers
    Henry Rutgers
    Henry Rutgers was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York City, New York.-Biography:...

  • List of Rutgers University people
  • Presidents of Rutgers University
  • Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

  • Rutgers–New Brunswick
  • Rutgers–Newark
  • Rutgers–Camden
  • Rutgers Business School
    Rutgers Business School
    Rutgers Business School is the graduate and undergraduate business school tied to the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in 1929.Rutgers Business School offers bachelor, masters, and Ph.D. degrees...

     – Newark and New Brunswick (graduate and undergraduate)
  • Rutgers School of Business – Camden
  • Rutgers School of Law–Camden
  • Seton Hall University School of Law
    Seton Hall University School of Law
    The Seton Hall University School of Law is part of Seton Hall University, and is located in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Seton Hall Law School is the only private law school in New Jersey, and is the top-ranked of the three law schools in the state...

  • Post-secondary education in New Jersey
    Post-secondary education in New Jersey
    A large number of post-secondary education options are available in the State of New Jersey. Currently, 31 four-year colleges and universities are located in New Jersey...

  • List of universities named after people
  • Lists of law schools

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