Students in the Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic assist local non-profits and businesses with their legal needs.
Rutgers' Award-Winning Legal Clinics Are National Models

Rutgers Law School is a pioneer in clinical education and currently boasts 16 clinics across its two campuses in Newark and Camden where student casework for actual clients is principally supervised by full-time Rutgers Law faculty.

Rutgers clinic students have:

  • Freed wrongfully imprisoned persons
  • Helped qualified immigrants receive asylum
  • Obtained appropriate educational services for children with disabilities
  • Protected victims of domestic violence
  • Formed corporate non-profits
  • Worked on copyrights and trademarks
  • Completed Congressional and public policy research
  • Filed amicus briefs in cases in the nation's and state's highest courts

U.S. News & World Report ranks Rutgers Law School’s Clinical Training 8th in the nation among all law schools and 4th among public law schools (2023). 

Students in the clinical education programs learn lawyering skills and development of professional identity, working with clients on numerous issues - including Constitutional Rights, International Human Rights, Domestic Violence, Non-Profit and Small Business Development, Intellectual Property, Children's Rights, Criminal and Civil Justice, and many others.

Click here to view the Rutgers Law School Clinic Newsletter for Fall 2022

Contact Rutgers Law Clinics in Camden at (856) 225-6568

Contact Rutgers Law Clinics in Newark at (973) 353-5576

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  • Widely Published Faculty Expertise
  • Award-Winning Clinical Leadership
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Through the clinics, law students learn essential lawyering skills while assuming and growing into the role of lawyer. Their responsibilities include handling trials and evidentiary hearings, significant appellate arguments and briefs, major business and real estate transactions, legislative and administrative testimony and comments, and complex mediations, negotiations, and counseling sessions. Rutgers Law clinics promote professional judgment, collaboration, and a sense of  professional identity and responsibility among students who participate. Clinic students also learn the positive difference that well-trained members of the legal profession can make in their clients’ lives.

Our clinical faculty have produced writings, conducted applied research and launched interdisciplinary projects with significant impact. Clinical faculty have produced reports and research studies documenting systemic failures in the delivery of justice in particular judicial and adjudicative systems; published scholarship that has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and other high courts and influenced the development of law.

In addition to winning numerous awards, several members of the clinical faculty are leaders in the national clinical legal education community, and multiple members have recently served as chairpersons of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical Section,  as members of the AALS Clinical Section’s Executive Committee, the AALS Standing Committee on Clinical Education, the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Board of Directors, and the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review. Its talented and diverse faculty and students have garnered several national awards for groundbreaking accomplishments in teaching, advocacy, scholarship, and service.

Clinical law students and faculty have established important national and statewide precedents in advancing justice for underserved persons, groups and communities at the highest levels. Click here to view a list of these precedents.