In light of the uncertain future of reproductive rights in the United States and ongoing battle over women’s rights, the theme of this year’s Rutgers Law School Mary Philbrook Public Interest Awards Celebration focused on reproductive justice.

Gurneet Singh RLAW ’19 was already working as a patent agent at a law firm, and decided to go to law school after he realized he didn’t always have all the answers for clients asking questions about intellectual property licensing, enforcement, and possible litigation.

Rutgers Law School has awarded former Co-Dean John Oberdiek in Camden and Vice Dean Reid Weisbord in Newark with the 2017 Greg Lastowka Award for Scholarly Excellence. The Lastowka Award, now in its second year, is named in memory of Rutgers Law School Professor Greg Lastowka, an expert in cyber law, who died of cancer in 2015.