Five men serving decades-long prison sentences received clemency in recent weeks with help from a clinic at Rutgers Law in Camden. Their work on complex petitions, completed through the Expungement Law Project and with the ACLU of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ), contributed to successful commutations in these high-profile cases involving extreme sentencing and disputed evidence.
The Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law (RIIPL) and Free Press hosted a panel with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Anna Gomez about threats to free speech in the U.S. and New Jersey.
Sarah E. Ricks, distinguished clinical professor of law, earned a nationally competitive grant to further her legal research, which will appear in the UCLA Law Review next year.
Camden native and Rutgers–Camden alumnus is beginning law school—in Camden. A lifelong resident, he chose Rutgers University–Camden for his undergraduate education in large part because of its location.
This March, Rutgers Law School students used Spring Break to explore South African Constitutional Law through a travel course. They engaged with students, attorneys, judges, activists, and local communities to understand the intersections of law, history, and society.
A young Rutgers Law alumnus is turning his lifelong passion for helping others into a successful career. Less than a year after graduating, he won a hard-fought victory for an 80-year-old client who had been fraudulently deceived into signing over his home’s deed.