Did you know?
#SCOTUS
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught at
@RutgersLaw
school early in her career and founded our Women’s Rights Law Reporter—the oldest legal periodical in the U.S. focused exclusively on the field of women’s rights law.
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2019
#RBG
Growing up in a family of farmworkers in South Texas, Viktoria Zerda was forced to confront the urgent need for good lawyers at an early age.
🙌 Now, as a
@RutgersLaw
student, she's gaining the skills to serve and empower communities back at home.
.
@RutgersLaw
joins the nation in mourning the passing of
#SCOTUS
Justice 𝗥𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴. She was a member of the
#RutgersLaw
family as a professor on the Newark campus from 1963-1972, and was the inaugural faculty advisor for the Women’s Rights Law Reporter.
Classes are in full swing at
@RutgersLaw
! Our community members in Camden and Newark are shared their best advice on how to thrive as a law student.
✨Read the blog:
The
#SCOTUS
that will hear LGBTQ discrimination cases this week is radically different from the Court that legalized same-sex marriage four years ago. 🏳️🌈
Prof.
@katie_eyer
spoke to
@TheAtlantic
about the potential outcomes:
"Our hearts and prayers go out to U.S. Dist. Court Judge Esther Salas RLAW '94 and her family at this time of unimaginable sorrow and pain and offer her and her family our community’s love and support in the face of this senseless tragedy,"
@RutgersLaw
Co-Dean
@PDavidLopez
.
Congratulations to Rose Cuison-Villazor, who becomes the first Asian-American woman Co-Dean at
@RutgersLaw
in Newark and the first Filipina American law dean in the U.S., as
@PDavidLopez
announces his departure June 30. We are grateful for his leadership and outstanding work.
We're thrilled to officially announce the appointment of Kimberly Mutcherson (
@ProfessorMutch
) as the new Co-Dean of
@RutgersLaw
in Camden. She is the first woman, African American, and LGBT law co-dean at Rutgers.
Read more:
#SCOTUS
agreed to hear the rights cases of three LGBTQ workers. At stake is whether sex discrimination also prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Read analysis from Prof.
@katie_eyer
in
@NBCNews
on the cases:
Congratulations to
#RutgersLaw
Prof.
@ellgood
who has taken leave to serve as
@NTIAgov
Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice. She will lead NTIA on A.I. governance & algorithmic justice as well as advise on communications platform and information issues:
Named in honor of Charlotte Ray, the first female Black lawyer in the U.S., the
@RutgersLaw
Ray Fund for Women and Law will support scholarships for female students and others committed to the advancement of women in the law.
We at
@RutgersLaw
are proud of Prof.
@katie_eyer
and Co-Dean
@PDavidLopez
whose work helped lead to today's
@Scotus
decision that federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees.
“When law school gets tough, I think about my grandfather’s advice: to focus on doing the best I can without comparing myself to others. I'm motivated by his story and the new stories I am privileged to witness in working with immigrant clients today.”
–Joanna Gardner RLAW'2019
Today,
@RutgersLaw
Professor Jon Dubin was cited in both Justice Gorsuch's dissent and the majority
#SCOTUS
opinion in Biestek v. Berryhill.
📝 Read the citations:
Ryan Brinkerhoff has:
✈️traveled the world to provide aid through his non-profit,
@Thrive_Inc
📓served as an aide to students with disabilities
📊worked as an
@ObamaWhiteHouse
intern on trade and budget issues.
Now, he's starting as a 1L at
@RutgersLaw
:
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg was finding her niche in women’s rights, she co-founded and became the faculty advisor for the first law journal to focus on the topic, the Women’s Rights Law Reporter at
@RutgersLaw
.
Learn more about her legacy here:
From seven years as an ocean lifeguard at the Jersey shore to
@RutgersLaw
, first-year law student Anna Esposito shares how her passion for the environment has fueled her career path.
🌊Read her story on The Brief:
Here's to
@RutgersLaw
's strong, vibrant community of female teachers, scholars, staff, students, and alumni shining bright and working for justice around the world.
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2019
Congratulations to
@RutgersLaw
Prof
@jorgecontesse
, who has been appointed as Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Law School in Paris for the 2020-21 academic year. Contesse is an expert in international human rights and the founder of the the Center for Transnational Law.
Rutgers mourns the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Justice Ginsburg was on the faculty of
@RutgersLaw
from 1963 to 1972. Her students sparked her interest in gender discrimination and the law—the topic of the first case she argued before the US Supreme Court.
A
#NewJersey
law is signed, offering protections to stalking/cyber harassment survivors against people they never dated or lived with, thanks in part to the work of Nick Gangemi '23 (pictured far right), Prof.
@RA_Robbins
&
#RutgersLaw
DV Clinic
#Camden
:
Michele Albano's daughter was the victim of stalking, but was unable to obtain a restraining order.
Today I expanded access to protective orders beyond victims of domestic and sexual violence — victims of all types of abusive behavior deserve protection too.
Our 2019 incoming class is a fascinating, eclectic, and diverse group.
One of our 409 new students is Ya Wang, who came to the United States from China in 2010 and chose
@RutgersLaw
for its Foreign Lawyer Program.
🆕 Meet a
@RutgersLaw
1L:
Mumbi Ngugi found her voice as a
@FloridaAtlantic
undergrad in moot court. Now, she's finding community in the "kindness and intellectual solidarity that exists at
@RutgersLaw
."
🆕 Meet a
@RutgersLaw
1L:
.
@GovMurphy
has designated Jan. 30 as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.” The day honors the legendary civil rights activist who fought wrongful incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
#RutgersLaw
held a teach-in today in
#Newark
#NewJersey
.
“Not one justice will give this persuasive weight and, at best, will find it puzzling," said Co-Dean
@PDavidLopez
of DOJ pressure on the EEOC to change its position and tell
#SCOTUS
to rule that businesses can discriminate against LGBT employees.
We're honored to be recognized nationally as an exceptional value for our students.
@NationalJurist
lists
#RutgersLaw
among its top 25 Best Value Law Schools, the only school in the Northeast to make the top 25
Congratulations to
@RutgersLaw
alumna Fabiana Pierre-Louis RLAW '06, who was chosen by a unanimous state Senate vote today as New Jersey's first Black woman justice on the state Supreme Court. We are so proud of you.
We are pleased to announce that
@KathrynSabbeth
will join
#RutgersLaw
this fall as a Professor of Law.
She joins us from
@unc_law
. At
#Rutgers
, Prof. Sabbeth will teach a housing clinic, property, and a seminar on access to justice and legal ethics. Welcome!
#lawtwitter
Congratulations to
#RutgersLaw
Prof.
@jorgecontesse
, who was elected to the United Nations Committee Against Torture today in Geneva. This is one of the most prestigious posts in the field of international human rights:
#Rutgers
#Newark
#lawtwitter
Today, we welcomed our newest members of the Minority Student Program to
@RutgersLaw
in Newark! We are thrilled to have you as part of the next generation of Rutgers lawyers.
Students at
@RutgersLaw
are helping New Jersey taxpayers get fast-tracked resolutions. ⚡️
Discover how they helped settle five cases for individual clients at a recent IRS problem-solving day through the Federal Tax Law Clinic:
Wishing all of the luck in the world to the many
@RutgersLaw
grads taking the bar exam this week! You’ve done the hard work, and we can’t wait to welcome you into the profession when you’ve leapt over this last hurdle! You got this!
“I care a lot about doing work that is not just for other legal scholars, but has the potential to be meaningful in people’s lives,” says new
@RutgersLaw
Co-Dean Kimberly Mutcherson (
@ProfessorMutch
) in a feature in
@PhillyInquirer
. Read:
Spring break continues!
@RutgersLaw
students are:
🌍 Discussing fieldwork on Syrian refugees with Congress
🇿🇦 Meeting with a Justice of the Constitutional Court in South Africa—their equivalent to
#SCOTUS
🛠 Working to help our neighbors through Habitat for Humanity
...and more!
Uninsured Americans may avoid getting tested for the Coronavirus, leading to further exposure, because of a fear of medical bills, underscoring the need for healthcare for everyone, says
@RutgersLaw
Prof.
@christina_s_ho
@Slate
.
@RutgersLaw
is thrilled to announce the creation of the Ray Fund for Women and Law. Named in honor of Charlotte Ray, the first female Black lawyer in the U.S., the fund will support scholarships for female students and others committed to the advancement of women in the law.
Two former
@RutgersLaw
students, who were founding members of the Women's Rights Law Reporter, remember working with their Professor,
#RuthBaderGinsburg
, to start the pioneering law journal
@njdotcom
The NJ Innocence Project at Rutgers–Camden will assist people who were wrongfully incarcerated, with support from Rutgers faculty and students in law, forensic science, criminal justice, and social work.
Come work with us! Rutgers Law School is hiring multiple tenure-track and tenured positions at our Camden and Newark locations. Go to this link to apply:
Wishing all the best to
@RutgersLaw
graduate Carmen Day who shared her story
@phillyinquirer
of how she turned her life around and achieved her dream of becoming a lawyer. We are so proud of you and are glad to be part of your story.
With Co-Deans
@RCuisonVillazor
&
@ProfessorMutch
at the helm, Rutgers Law's new leadership team is making history. Our deans are breaking barriers in legal academia with women and people of color more represented than ever. Meet the women leading the way.
Congratulations to Rutgers Law School Professor Jorge Contesse on his appointment as Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Law School in Paris for the 2020-21 academic year. Contesse is an expert in international human rights and the founder of the the Center for Transnational Law.
Muhammad Ali was famously convicted for his religious objections to serving in the military. In an essay, Rutgers Law Prof. Carlos Ball examines the
#SCOTUS
Masterpiece Cake Shop case in light of the Muhammad Ali's case from the 1970s.
#ICYMI
: Alumna Fabiana Pierre-Louis has been sworn in as the newest member of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The
@RutgersLaw
graduate and former federal prosecutor is the first Black female justice in our state’s 224-year history.
Read more:
#RutgersPride
"I learned it's possible to love and serve your country without compromising your identity and beliefs."
–
@NewJerseyAG
Gurbir S. Grewal during his commencement speech for
#RutgersLaw
’s Graduation Convocation in Newark.
"You are not what happened to you, you are what you choose to become."
🙌 Read about second-year
@RutgersLaw
student Carmen Y. Day's path to law school and the impact of the Honorable Judge Charles Dortch, Jr. RLAW'84 on her life:
Join us on Thursday, May 28, for
@RutgersLaw
virtual commencement ceremonies. The Camden ceremony starts at 1 p.m. and can be viewed here: The Newark ceremony follows at 4 p.m. and can be viewed here:
Congratulations graduates!
Prof.
@eliseboddie
has been appointed to the Presidential Commission on the
#SCOTUS
, a newly-formed bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate. For more about the Executive Order and the Commission visit .
A commitment to an independent, fair-minded judiciary is a core tenet of my Administration. Fabiana Pierre-Louis’s sharp legal acumen makes her well-suited to become the next Associate Justice and first Black woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
"At the end of their three or four years, they can have a piece of paper with their name on it, or they can have an experience that will hopefully stick with them for the rest of their lives. I chose the latter."
📍Read:
“
@RutgersLaw
opened a thousand doors for me. I learned important thinking skills. I got a law degree. But most of all, Rutgers put me to the test to figure out who I was and what I could do.”
—
@SenWarren
RLAW'76 in
@PhillyInquirer
:
The
@RutgersLaw
faculty has strongly voiced its commitment to dismantling systems of racial oppression and standing up for Black lives. Read their eloquent resolution that spells out their promise to work towards a better law school and a better world.
What is one thing you wish someone told you in your first year of law school? In 280 characters or less, share some advice with our Rutgers Law 1Ls. We'll pass it along. Go!
"I hope each of you lead careers that are filled with purpose and passion. I hope you know that myself, and your law school peers will always be here to support and lift you up," Lauren Bess
#RutgersLaw
'21, SBA President, Camden. Congratulations to all of our graduates!
"It’s a great privilege to teach students about their rights and how they can make real social change in their high school, their neighborhoods, and beyond."
—Colin Sheehan RLAW'20 gives back through the Marshall Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
You're a first-generation college and law student on an elevator full of faculty—what do you say to make an impression?
Charles Ray RLAW'10 shares his
@RutgersLaw
experience with Co-Dean
@ProfessorMutch
on "The Power of Attorney."
🆕 Subscribe now:
Tune in to "The Power of Attorney" for
#InternationalPodcastDay
!
Upcoming episodes examine:
⚠️What it's like to be wrongfully imprisoned
🚀How to get into space law and work at
@NASA
📊Using your law degree without practicing law
Subscribe today:
#SCOTUS
will settle whether federal civil rights protections should extend to LGBT workers, a divisive question that created clashes among government agencies, appeals courts, and advocacy groups in recent years. Co-Dean
@PDavidLopez
in
@BLaw
:
Congratulations to
@RutgersLaw
students Anwar Abdur-Rahman and Claire Newsome, RLAW '20, who won this year’s Greg Lastowka Writing Competition, an annual short form writing contest on information policy and intellectual property.
Anita Hill will speak at tomorrow's
#RutgersLaw
commencement in Camden. Learn more about pioneering role against sexual harassment and current work as an advocate for more women to participate in STEM professions.
#RUCamden18
Congratulations!
#Rutgers
Univ. Board of Governors has appointed
#RutgersLaw
's
@profmikecarrier
as a Board of Governors Professor of Law. The distinction is awarded to those whose aggregate academic accomplishments are recognized nationally & globally:
We are pleased to welcome two new associate professors, Jacob Victor and Anibal Rosario Lebrón, to our faculty, and to congratulate Norrinda Hayat on becoming an Associate Professor of Law. Get to know them better at the link: .
We are so proud of Fabiana Pierre-Louis RLAW '06, a superlative law student who graduated magna cum laude from
@RutgersLaw
in Camden, and is poised to become the first Black woman on the
#NewJersey
Supreme Court.
Congrats to Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a 2006 graduate of
@RutgersLaw
in Camden, on her unanimous approval from the NJ Senate Judiciary Committee. When confirmed at a full Senate hearing, she will be the first Black woman to sit on the NJ Supreme Court.
Students at
@RutgersLaw
recently celebrated
#SCOTUS
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the very law school where
#RBG
began her teaching career with a screening of
@RBGMovie
.
A shout out to
@RutgersLaw
Prof. Laura Cohen, who leads the Criminal & Youth Justice Clinic, and has long worked to better conditions for New Jersey's youth.
VICTORY! The NJ Supreme Court held that before cops can interrogate kids, they must inform them of their rights in front of a guardian and give them a chance to discuss in private.
Kudos to Laura Cohen from
@RutgersLaw
who argued on our behalf:
We are excited to welcome Tomica Burke Saul to
#RutgersLaw
as an assistant professor. She is supervising staff attorney for the Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic
@ColumbiaLaw
and the Founder/CEO of TomCookery Hospitality Management.
#rutgers
#lawschool
#lawtwitter