David Lopez, Rutgers University Professor of Law and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar
The Rutgers University Board of Governors has appointed Professor of Law and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar David Lopez as University Professor effective July 1, 2022. He served as co-dean of the Rutgers Law School at Rutgers University–Newark from August 2018 until June 2021.
Lopez has worked with the Rutgers Law Camden Co-Dean Kimberly Mutcherson and the law faculty to deliver a unified comprehensive curriculum that utilizes distance-learning technology to bring together faculty and students at both campuses and promoted the school’s publicly engaged scholarship since his arrival. He directed operational matters for the Newark campus, navigating difficult circumstances such as the global pandemic, and steadily increased applications and admissions while recruiting key management positions and cultivating one of the largest gifts in recent Rutgers-Newark history.