Rutgers Law School’s incoming students include a National Guardsman, TikTok staffer, and Rutgers–Newark administrator. Get to know these new students and other 1Ls arriving on our Camden and Newark campuses this fall.
This year’s incoming Rutgers Law class broke a record set by last year’s class and set another. Rutgers Law enrolled the largest number of female students in the law school’s history, beating last year’s record of 241 by seven more students. In addition to improving upon last year’s numerical credentials, this 1L class of more than 420 students is also the most diverse in the law school’s history.
Meet Maureen Saraco, Rutgers Law School’s newest director of new programs. She arrives from Temple University, where she directed several pre-college and dual enrollment programs, creating a pathway to undergraduate education for students from Philadelphia, across the country, and around the world.
Four new faculty members join the ranks at Rutgers Law School this fall, bringing with them extensive teaching expertise and diverse research interests ranging from immigration law to artificial intelligence. Learn more about them and their plans for the classroom, clinic, and beyond.
Rutgers Law School’s clinics in Camden and Newark have a long-standing reputation for excellence. This year, the program is set to advance further with the appointment of two new associate deans for clinical education.
The first cohort of students have completed the Minority Student Program (MSP) Pre-Law Summer Academy and celebrated with a graduation on July 27. With support from Ballard Spahr LLP, its chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, Virginia Essandoh, and the Law School Admission Council, the Pre-Law Academy offered eight weeks of LSAT preparation through 7Sage along with two proctored practice tests. However, the Academy’s support extended well beyond test preparation.
After four years of hard-fought litigation, Rutgers Law Associates (RLA) recently won a jury trial on behalf of an eighty-year-old client who had been deceived into signing over his home’s deed.
New additions for the fall 2024 semester will enrich the pathway for students interested in patent law, further strengthening the school’s already outstanding reputation in this field.
Nicole Ryu ’24 and Francis G. Tiongson ’24 are the latest recipients of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic Award, which recognizes their exceptional proficiency in the clinical practice of intellectual property law and acknowledges their excellent leadership and teamwork with fellow clinic students.
Lawfirm.com asked a panel of experts to weigh in on how to navigate bankruptcy. Rutgers Law Professor Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity, Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice, shared her perspective on some of the most pressing bankruptcy questions.
Rutgers Law part-time student Jibri Douglas will receive the 2024 National LGBTQ+ Bar Student Leadership Award.
The Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic achieved a significant victory in the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 1, when the Court held that youth placed on the sex offender registry have the right to be removed at any time, as long as they can prove they are not likely to pose a threat to the safety of others.