Rutgers – Camden School of Law

Legal Writing Professors at Rutgers-Camden have almost complete autonomy over all but the basic focus of the first-year course, i.e., memos in the fall and briefs/moot court in the spring. Otherwise, professors are free to design every other aspect of their courses around their pedagogical aims and scholarly focus. Classes have a student-teacher ratio of approximately 36 to 1. We also have teaching assistants earning grades for their work. The upper-level curriculum is designed to enhance the depth of student knowledge and also to introduce students to more sophisticated techniques of persuasion, drawing on classical rhetoric, psychology theory, creative writing, and visual design theory.

The LRW program is integrated with the school’s other lawyering programs, including the school’s clinics, competitive moot court, and pro bono programs. This interdependence is reflected in collaboration among faculty. Many of us teach extensively in or work with the clinical and pro bono programs. Likewise, several writing professors have created memo and brief problems stemming from scenarios arising within Rutgers’ Domestic Violence Clinic, and first-year students have researched and written as if they were working for clients within that clinic.

Rutgers – Camden supports the scholarly development of the legal writing faculty. Legal writing faculty have ABA Standard 405 (c) status. We are eligible for sabbaticals, and we are encouraged to present at conferences. We have published scholarship in the field of legal writing and in other doctrinal areas.

Additionally, Rutgers – Camden hosts, maintains, and develops innovations for the LWI Idea Bank. For more information about the Rutgers – Camden Legal Research and Writing program, please contact:

Prof. Jason Cohen at jayco@camden.rutgers.edu;
Prof. Sarah Ricks at sricks@camden.rutgers.edu;
Prof. Ruth Anne Robbins at ruthanne@camden.rutgers.edu;
Prof. Sheila Rodriguez at sheilaro@camden.rutgers.edu; or
Prof. Carol Wallinger at cwallinger@camden.rutgers.edu