Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic

The Rutgers Law Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic works statewide on a variety of projects tied to the laws related to domestic violence, sexual assault, and associated gender issues. These projects are most often legislative, research-based, or educational in nature. The clinic is at our Camden location. 

The clinic will open in January of 2025 but has been operating as a law school course for several years: Legislative & Policy Drafting. Students in that course have worked to enact or amend several pieces of legislation in New Jersey or to provide valuable research to others who are working on the same. Several students in the clinic have met with legislators or their legislation directors. A few students have had the opportunity to testify at legislative committee meetings. Students have also created teaching documents about New Jersey laws and have provided legal research and analysis to stakeholder public-interest and legal-service organizations, and to legislators or legislative offices. 

Students will enroll through the normal registration process. This clinic will operate in the spring semesters, with the possibility of an advanced component carrying on to the following fall semester. 

Faculty

Ruth Anne Robbins, professor of law, is a national expert in the field of legal communication and advocacy. She has held leadership roles nationally. She has created several courses across our lawyering curriculum including the original Domestic Violence Clinic, changes to the Hunter program, the Persuasion in Legal Writing course, and the Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic. Her scholarship focuses mostly on legal narrative and legal document design. She has received several campus-wide, regional, and national awards for her teaching and innovation.

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