Rutgers School of Law–Newark
| Rutgers School of Law – Newark | |
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| Motto | Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra |
| Established | 1908 |
| School type | Public |
| Parent endowment | US $603 million (systemwide)[1] |
| Dean | Ronald K. Chen |
| Location |
Newark, New Jersey, USA 40°44′26″N 74°10′23″W / 40.74059°N 74.17307°WCoordinates: 40°44′26″N 74°10′23″W / 40.74059°N 74.17307°W |
| Enrollment | 501 (full-time), 169 (part-time)[2] |
| Faculty | 88 [3] |
| USNWR ranking | 87 [3] |
| Website |
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Rutgers School of Law–Newark is the oldest of the three law schools in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the campus of Rutgers University-Newark, in the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice, 123 Washington Street, in downtown Newark. Founded in 1908 as the New Jersey Law School, it merged with the University of Newark in 1936, which itself merged with Rutgers University, one of the most recognized public universities in the world, and the eighth oldest college in the country.[4][5] The Law School celebrated its centennial on September 9, 2008. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association, a member of the Association of American Law Schools, and registered with the Board of Regents of the State of New York. It submits annual ABA-required disclosures. According to its 2013 disclosure, 82.2% of the Class of 2013 had long-term employment nine months after graduation; 55.9% of the class was employed in full-time, long-term, J.D.-required positions nine months after graduation.[6] The law school's alumni include two currently sitting United States Senators, Robert Menendez and Elizabeth Warren.
Academics
The J.D. 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 Analysis, Writing and Research Skills. All required courses are graded on a standard B-curve. 1Ls are grouped in small sections of roughly 30 people, who take all of the same required classes together. Though two or three sections are generally combined for required courses, each student has a 'small section' class where their section of 30 or fewer people is taught a required subject by a tenured faculty member. Students may choose to attend classes on either a full-time or part-time basis.
As part of a major research university, the Law School affords its students numerous dual degree opportunities. These include:
– J.D./M.B.A. with Rutgers Business School.
– J.D./M.D. in conjunction with the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
– J.D./M.A. in Criminal Justice with the School of Criminal Justice.
– J.D./M.A. in Legal Philosophy with the Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick
– J.D./M.P.A. with the School of Public Affairs and Administration
– J.D./M.C.R.P. in City and Regional Planning with the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
– J.D./M.S.W. with the Rutgers School of Social Work.
– J.D./M.S. or J.D./Ph.D. with the Division of Global Affairs
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.[8][9]
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.[10]
Rankings
According to the U.S. News Law School Rankings for 2015-16, Rutgers School of Law–Newark is ranked 87th overall, with its part-time program ranking 19th overall.[11] It is ranked 74th according to Peer Reputation score, making it the highest peer-rated school in New Jersey, tied with its sister school in Camden.[12]
The National Law Journal ranked the Law School 47th on its 2015 list of the Top 50 Go-To Law Schools. It was the only law school in New Jersey to appear on that list, which reported that 10.1% of the Law School's 2014 graduates were hired directly by one of the country's top 250 law firms. [13]
In 2013, U.S. News ranked the Law School 9th in the country on its list of law degrees "with the biggest return on investment."[14] Finally, the Law School is ranked 30th according to Business Insider's 2014 'Top Law Schools in America' list.[15]
Employment
According to the Law School's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 82.2% of the Class of 2013 obtained long-term employment within nine months of graduation; 55.9% of that class obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment within nine months.[6] 19.3% of the Class of 2013 was pursuing an additional degree, working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job, or unemployed as of nine months after graduation.[16] Of those employed graduates who reported their salary, the mean starting salary was $68,814, with 25% of graduates starting at over $75,000.[17] Of the 19.8% of students starting in the private sector and reporting their salaries, the mean salary was $96,981, with 25% of those graduates making over $134,000.[17]
Costs
Rutgers is one of the least expensive top tier law schools. The total yearly cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, books, and living expenses) at the Law School, for students living on-campus is $40,910.[18] The cost of attendance ranges from as low as $34,990 for New Jersey residents living with their parents to $61,690 for students living out of state. Generally speaking, the Law School deems out-of-state students who move to New Jersey, whether living on- or off-campus, to be residents. The out-of-state tuition rate affects students who commute from New York, for example. Many students receive merit and/or need based assistance, administered to both new matriculants and second- and third-year students, further reducing their costs.
Journals
The law school has five student journals:
- Rutgers Law Review
- Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, the first journal in the country to address the interaction between computers, technology and the law.
- Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first journal in the country to focus on women's rights. Co-founded by former Rutgers Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 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, the first law school in New Jersey to provide law clinics and one of the first in the country, provides legal services and clinical education in it its ten clinics.
- Child Advocacy Clinic
- Civil Justice Clinic
- Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic
- Constitutional Rights Clinic
- Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic
- Education and Health Law Clinic- including the HEAL Collaborative with Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Outpatient Pediatrics Department.
- Federal Tax Law Clinic
- Immigrant Rights Clinic
- Intellectual Property Law Clinic
- International Human Rights Clinic
Diversity
The Law School enrolls one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. 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%).[19]
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." [20]
Notable alumni
Graduates of the law school are prominent in the judiciary, academic, private practice, public interest practice, and all levels of government. Two alumni are current United States Senators, at least ten are current federal judges, and two are chairs of "white shoe" law firms. Dozens are professors—tenured and/or clinical—at prominent law schools. These alumni include:
Judiciary
- Harold Ackerman (1928–2009), United States District Judge, District of New Jersey, 1979–2008.
- Raymond L. Acosta, United States District Judge, District of Puerto Rico
- Judith M. Barzilay, Judge, United States Court of International Trade.
- Vincent Biunno, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey 1973-1991; Director, Prudential Insurance Co., 1960-1973.
- Renee Marie Bumb, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey
- Robert E. Cowen, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
- Mary C. Cuff, New Jersey Appellate Division, Presiding Judge (currently sitting on New Jersey Supreme Court).
- Rosemary Gambardella, United States Bankruptcy Judge, District of New Jersey since 1985; the first woman to serve on that court; Chief Judge from August 1998 to August 2005.
- William S. Greenberg, United States Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
- Richard J. Hughes, Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court 1973-1979, and 45th Governor of New Jersey (1962-1970).
- Jaynee LaVecchia, Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court.
- Margarita López-Torres, Judge, Surrogate’s Court, Kings County (Brooklyn); first minority surrogate judge in State of New York; first woman surrogate in Kings County.
- Virginia Long, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1999-2012).
- William Martini, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey.
- Barry Moskowitz, Chief United States District Judge, Southern District of California.
- Morris Pashman (1912–1999), Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court (1973-1982).[21]
- Nicholas H. Politan (1935-2002), United States District Judge, District of New Jersey 1987-2002.
- Sylvia Pressler (1934–2010), Chief Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, and Editor of the New Jersey Court Rules.
- Esther Salas, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey; first Hispanic woman appointed U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey, and first such Magistrate Judge.[22][23]
- William Francis Smith (1904-1968), U.S. Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1961-1968); District Judge for District of New Jersey (1941-1961); U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (1940–41).
- Morris Stern (1941-2014), United States Bankruptcy Judge, District of New Jersey.
- Diana L. Terry, Judge, Colorado Court of Appeals.
- Freda L. Wolfson, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey
- Alfred M. Wolin, United States District Judge, District of New Jersey 1987-2004.
- James Yates, Judge, New York Supreme Court. Former Speaker of the New York Assembly.
Academia
- Frank Askin, Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law- Newark. Former ACLU General Counsel. Current Director of Constitutional Litigation Clinic.
- Jonathan Askin, Professor of Law and Founder/Director of Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic at Brooklyn Law School.
- Dorothea A. Beane, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy, Stetson Law School.
- Paula Berg, Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law.
- Leigh Bienen, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law.
- Douglas Colbert, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law.
- George W. Conk, Senior Fellow, Adjunct Professor, Fordham School of Law. Published in Yale Law Journal.
- Mary Cheh, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School. Washington, D.C. City Council member.
- Ronald Chen, Acting Dean, Rutgers School of Law- Newark. Former Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey.
- Patience Crowder, Assistant Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. 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, Roger Williams University School of Law.
- C. Willard Heckel, Dean, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, 1963-1970.
- Leah Hill, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham School of Law and co-director of Fordham’s Interdisciplinary Center for Family and Child Advocacy.
- Alan Hornstein, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law.
- Michelle S. Jacobs, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law.
- John R. Kettle III, Clinical Professor of Law, Director-Intellectual Property Law Clinic, 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.
- Kevin H. Michels, Faculty Chair in Legal Ethics and Professionalism and Visiting Associate Professor, Gonzaga University School of Law. Author of New Jersey Attorney Ethics treatise.
- 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. Evidence law expert and noted litigator.[24]
- 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, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; United States Senator (D-MA); Chair of the Congressional Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) oversight panel.[25][26]
- Clifford Zimmerman, Associate Dean and Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law.
Public Service
- Michael Patrick Carroll, New Jersey State Assemblyman (R-25th Dist), 1996-present.
- Ida L. Castro, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 1998-2001.
- Anthony R. Coscia, Chairman of Amtrak. Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (2003-2011).
- Zulima Farber, Former Attorney General and Public Advocate of New Jersey.
- Louis Freeh, FBI Director 1993–2001; U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York 1991–1993. Current Chairman, Pepper Hamilton LLP.
- Elbert Guillory, Senator, Louisiana Senate. Only African-American Republican in Louisiana State Senate.[27]
- Richard J. Hughes, Governor of New Jersey (1962-1970); Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1973-1979).
- Alan Karcher, (1943-1999), Former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly; Assemblyman 1973-1990.
- Robert Menendez, United States Senator (D-NJ). Class of 1979.[22]
- Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of West Virginia (2013–present).
- Sybil Moses (c. 1939 – 2009), Prosecutor of the "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich murder case and New Jersey Superior Court judge.[28]
- A. Harry Moore, Former United States Senator and Governor of New Jersey.
- Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy (1993-1997), and President of Fisk University (2004-2012).
- Annette Quijano, New Jersey Assemblywoman (D-20th Dist), 2008-present. Deputy Majority Leader 2012-present. First minority and first woman to represent her district.
- Robert Torricelli, Former United States Senator (D-NJ).
- Peter Rodino, noted United States Congressman (D-NJ), 1949–1989.
- Clifford Gregory Stewart, General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, during Clinton administration.
- Jennifer Velez, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services, 2007-2015 (longest-serving commissioner in department history). [29]
- Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator (D-MA).
- Chester A. Weidenburner, United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1956-1961.
Public Interest
- Fannie B. Besser, legendary poverty lawyer and one of the first female attorneys in New Jersey.[30]
- Nancy Biberman, founder, Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation.[31]
- Jeffrey Fogel, Director and lead attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights.
- Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Counsel to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund; Professor of Law, Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia.
- Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
- Clinton Lyons, former president and CEO, National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
- Hannah Pennington, Director of Sanctuary for Families’ Bronx Legal Project, the leading non-profit in New York dedicated to serving domestic violence victims, sex trafficking victims and their children.
- Elizabeth Blume Silverstein, (1892-1991) first woman to handle murder trial in New Jersey.[32]
- Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
- Lois Whitman, founder and director of Human Rights Watch's Children's Rights Division.[33]
Notable in Private Practice
- Rosemary Alito, Co-Chair, Global Labor and Employment Practice, K&L Gates.
- Lawrence E. Bathgate, II, Managing Partner, Bathgate, Wegener & Wolf.
- Candace Krugman Beinecke, Chair, Hughes Hubbard & Reed; first female chair of a major New York firm.
- Pamela Ehrenkranz, Chair, Trusts and Estates practice at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
- Angelo J. Genova, founding partner of Genova Burns.
- Anne Golden, founding partner of Outten & Golden.
- William L. Greenbaum, founder, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis. Son, Arthur Greenbaum, also an alumnus and would later lead the firm.
- Joseph A. Hayden Jr., noted trial attorney. Named partner, Walder Hayden & Brogan, P.A.
- Mary Beth Hogan, Chair of Litigation, Debevoise & Plimpton.
- Martin Klepper, partner, Skappen Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Washington D.C., Co-head of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Projects Group
- 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.[34]
- 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.
- Miguel A. Pozo, member, Lowenstein Sandler PC.
- Samuel Saiber, founder, Saiber LLC
Business and others
- Stuart Alderoty, General Counsel, HSBC North America. Former Chief Litigation Officer of American Express.
- Marc Berson, Chairman, Barnabas Health; Founder and Chairman of Fidelco Group; philanthropist.
- Mark Angelson, Trustee and Treasurer of the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Chairman of IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund. Former Deputy Mayor of Chicago under Rahm Emanuel. Prolific investor and executive.
- George McPhee, Vice President and General Manager, Washington Capitals (NHL)
- Ozzie Nelson, Entertainer.
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., billionaire newspaper publisher and founder of Advance Publications, which includes the Condé Nast family of magazines.
- Lynne Stewart, Prominent lawyer and civil rights activist. Convicted of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist client.
- Walter Walsh (1907-2014), Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Olympic sharpshooter.
- Linda Willett, General Counsel, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Chair of Legal Momentum, the oldest women's rights advocacy group.
See also
- Henry Rutgers
- List of Rutgers University people
- Rutgers University
- Rutgers–New Brunswick
- Rutgers–Newark
- Rutgers–Camden
- Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick (graduate and undergraduate)
- Rutgers School of Law–Camden
- Post-secondary education in New Jersey
- List of universities named after people
- Seton Hall University School of Law
- Lists of law schools
References
- ↑ "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2010 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2009 to FY 2010" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- ↑ http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/quick-facts
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey-newark-03098
- ↑ Newark marks anniversary with opening of modern residential, research buildings — Rutgers News Center
- ↑ Center for World University Rankings
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Class of 2013 Employment Statistics".
- ↑ http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/joint_degree.html Joint Degree Programs Retrieved on 07-28-2007
- ↑ http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/rutapp2007.pdf
- ↑ Rutgers School of Law - Newark - Admissions
- ↑ Efrati, Amir (August 26, 2008). "Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter 'Gaming'". The Wall Street Journal.
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- ↑ "Rutgers School of Law-Newark University Profile".
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Salaries".
- ↑ "Tuition and Expenses".
- ↑ ShowAllSchools
- ↑ Rutgers School of Law - Newark - Minority Student Program
- ↑ Honan, William H. "Morris Pashman, 87, Champion of Free Speech on New Jersey's Highest Court", The New York Times, October 10, 1999. Accessed October 19, 2009.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "SPOTLIGHT ON: Hon. Esther Salas ’94 – First Latina on New Jersey District Court". Rutgers School of Law. accessed July 28, 2011.
- ↑ Sanabria, Santo. "Local roots". The Union City Reporter. July 24, 2011. pages 1 and 12
- ↑ "Faculty Profile: Louis Raveson", Rutgers School of Law. Accessed March 22, 2011.
- ↑ Rutgers School of Law- Newark. "Interview with Elizabeth Warren", Nov. 9, 2011. Accessed Nov. 19, 2011.
- ↑ Henriques, Diana B. (December 2, 2008). "Bailout Monitor Sees Lack of a Coherent Plan". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Elbert Guillory". Justia Lawyer Directory. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ↑ Grimes, William. "Sybil R. Moses, Prosecutor and Longtime New Jersey Judge, Dies at 69", The New York Times, January 24, 2009. Accessed October 20, 2009.
- ↑ Livio, Susan. "N.J.'s longest-serving Human Services commissioner to resign", The Star-Ledger, February 17, 2015. Accessed February 18, 2015.
- ↑ "Fannie Bear Besser Obituary, New York Times", Accessed March 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Nancy Biberman's Full Bio", Accessed March 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Jewish Women's Archive", Accessed March 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Lois Whitman ’76 – A Pioneering Advocate for Children Around the World", Rutgers School of Law, January 2011. Accessed January 5, 2011.
- ↑ , Fried Frank: Lesk, Ann Berger. Accessed October 16, 2009.
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