Brisa De Angulo Losada ’12 relentlessly pursued justice and won, ultimately changing international law. A documentary about her decades-long fight is expected to premiere in early 2025 and has been shortlisted for the 2024 International Documentary Association (IDA) Documentary Awards.
A coalition of tenant advocates released a new report urging the New Jersey courts to improve their process for reviewing residential eviction complaints.
In response to New Jersey's housing crisis, members of the New Jersey Housing Justice Project traveled to Trenton to testify before the New Jersey Assembly Housing Committee.
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.
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.