President Biden signed a bill to force the sale of TikTok by ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it, or ban the widely popular video app in the United States.
Serving clients in both the United States and Côte d’Ivoire demands that M’Ballou Sanogho master two distinct legal systems and professional codes of conduct.
Two trailblazing Rutgers Law alumni will deliver the Commencement addresses at the law school ceremonies next month. Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis ’06, the first Black woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court, will deliver Camden’s address on May 16 at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Judge Zahid N. Quraishi ’00, the first Muslim American to serve as an Article III judge in the United States, will give Newark’s address on May 24 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Both ceremonies will be livestreamed.
For children with disabilities, the timely implementation of special education programming and services is crucial for their learning, literacy, and overall development. This urgency is reflected in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which mandates that disputes over special education services be resolved within 45 days. However, a recent class action lawsuit including more than 5,000 children with disabilities and their families revealed that the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) has failed to meet this requirement for decades.
Wade J. Henderson, who will be inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, has been a champion of civil and human rights for decades.
Rutgers Law’s National Appellate Advocacy Team won this year's Touro Law & Religion Appellate Advocacy Competition. Second-year part-time students Ralph Passante and Brian Clark bested 19 schools to take the top spot in this competitive tournament.
Yolanda Vázquez is teaching Property as this year’s Paul A. Rudino Visiting Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Newark. She is on leave from the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she teaches criminal procedure, property, immigration, and “crimmigration” (the intersection of criminal law and immigration law.)
New Jersey’s voter ballots may look very different in the June primary as a result of a lawsuit brought by Rep. Andy Kim’s campaign for U.S. Senate. A federal court judge recently issued a preliminary injunction striking down the use of the party line that groups all candidates running together on the ballot rather than grouping them by office they seek as is done in the rest of the nation. The New Jersey ballot has drawn criticism from a growing grassroots movement because it isolates candidates not endorsed by political parties in a less prominent position – affecting their election chances.
A Rutgers law professor has been leading a federal initiative to ensure that artificial intelligence used in a growing number of sectors including education, employment, finance, and health care is trustworthy and safe.
Joseph Davis says Rutgers "saved him." He is returning the favor by giving to law scholarships through a planned gift.