Rutgers University School Of Law-Camden

S C H O O L O F LAW – CAM D E NWith a nationalreputation for excellence, the Schoolof Law–Camden isnoted for its diverse studentbody and distinguished faculty.Drawing from almost everystate across the nation and fromseveral foreign countries, about750 students at the law schoolinteract daily with people fromall walks of life. Each year,approximately 200 studentswho have achieved academicexcellence join the entering class.These students typically comefrom more than 140 undergraduate institutions, including Boston College, Colby,Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,Emory, Florida State, Georgetown, Michigan, Notre Dame,Penn State, UCLA, USC, Texas,Tufts, Yale, and of course,Rutgers.Students at the law schoolalso enjoy a dynamic educational experience. The lawschool faculty is known for itsscholarship and commitment toteaching. Recognized nationallyand internationally in fields asdiverse as state constitutionallaw, health law, professionalresponsibility, and legal history,the faculty incorporates interdisciplinary and innovativeapproaches into much of thecurriculum to balance traditional legal learning with practical application. In addition to itsmission of research and writing,the faculty is dedicated to community service and to the bar.Students are encouraged towork with faculty in clinicalprograms and pro bono publicinterest cases. Students alsohave the opportunity to interactwith practicing lawyers, judges,and governmental agenciesthrough internships, clerkships,and clinical programs.As graduates of Rutgers’School of Law–Camden, our students join the ranks of successfulalumni across the nation. Alumniinclude former governors, members of Congress, state legislators, federal and state judges,and corporate counsel atFortune 500 companies.THE CAMPUSThe school had its origins inthe South Jersey Law School,which was established in 1926by Arthur E. Armitage, Sr., anda group of interested citizens.In 1950, the School of Law wasmerged with Rutgers Universityand, along with the NewarkLaw School, became part of theState University School of Law.In accordance with a resolutionof the Board of Governors, theSchools of Law of Camden andNewark were established asautonomous units in 1967.The school is a member of theAssociation of American LawSchools and is on the list ofapproved schools of theAmerican Bar Association. Athree-year course of study leading to the awarding of the JurisDoctor degree is offered to fulltime students, and a four-yearprogram is offered to part-timestudents.Approximately 750 full- andpart-time students are enrolledin the law school. About 20 percent of the school’s studentsare people of color, and nearly50 percent are women. The student population also reflects thenational and international representation that the law schoolseeks to attract. Indeed, in 2002,45 states and Puerto Rico andeight foreign countries wererepresented in the student population.Rutgers–Camden offers a safe,attractive urban campus locatedon 25 tree-lined acres. In addition to the law school, the campus is home to the CamdenCollege of Arts and Sciences,University College–Camden, theGraduate School–Camden, andthe School of Business–Camden.Total campus enrollmentexceeds 5,400 students.3

The campus’s 28 buildingsinclude the law school and lawlibrary building, business andscience building, campus centerand dining hall, Walt WhitmanInternational Poetry Center, PaulRobeson Library, Armitage Hall,a gymnasium with squash andtennis courts and a swimmingpool, two residence halls, and afine arts building that houses anart gallery, studios, classrooms,and a 750-seat theater. The lawschool and many of the campusbuildings are newly renovated.Numerous highways and thePATCO high-speed lineprovide quick, dependableaccess to the campus.The six-story glass and bronzemain law school building housesresearch facilities, seminar andreading rooms, student lounges,study areas, a cafeteria, class-4rooms, and offices. The lawlibrary contains 420,000 bibliographic units in book and microform, including an impressivehistorical collection of Sovietand East European legal materials. The library offers state-ofthe-art computer facilities.On-campus apartments forlaw students are available, asis housing for undergraduates.For information, visit theHousing Bulletin Board web site:www.housing.rutgers.edu.Rutgers–Camden’s new minorleague baseball stadium, Campbell’s Field, is a short walkfrom the Camden campus. This6,500-seat facility is home tothe Riversharks of the AtlanticLeague of Professional Baseballand the Scarlet Raptors, theRutgers–Camden men’s baseballteam. The complex features asoccer field, tennis courts, softball and Little League fields, anda children’s playground.AREA ATTRACTIONSThe campus is located near thebase of the Benjamin FranklinBridge to Philadelphia, a citythat offers world-class resourcesand historic charm. Philadelphiaattractions include the neoclassicAcademy of Music, the MannMusic Center, the 21,000-seatFirst Union Center, and numerous other venues that bring tothe area a whole range of performances in music, ballet, opera,and theater. Sports fans willfind plenty to cheer about, asPhiladelphia is home to theEagles, Phillies, 76ers, and Flyers.Just five blocks from the lawschool is the Tweeter Center atthe Waterfront (an indoor/outdoor concert venue); theNew Jersey State Aquarium;and the Battleship New Jersey,our nation’s most decoratedbattleship, now a floatingmuseum—all centerpieces forthe ongoing development ofCamden’s waterfront. The city,which is the Camden Countyseat, has federal and local courtslocated adjacent to the school.The famous New Jersey shore,with miles of beaches andAtlantic City, is just an houraway. In less than two hours,students can visit New YorkCity, Baltimore, Annapolis, andBucks County, Pennsylvania.New Jersey’s remarkable PineBarrens are nearby. FairmountPark in Philadelphia offers someof the best mountain biking onthe East Coast, and Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains areare also in the vicinity and offernumerous ski resorts.

R U T G E R S, T H ERutgers, The State University of New Jersey,with more than 51,000students on campusesin Camden, Newark, and NewBrunswick, is one of the majorstate university systems inthe nation. The universitycomprises 29 degree-grantingdivisions: 12 undergraduatecolleges, 11 graduate schools,and 6 schools offering bothundergraduate and graduatedegrees. Five are located inCamden, 8 in Newark, and16 in New Brunswick.Rutgers has a unique historyas a colonial college, a landgrant institution, and a stateuniversity. Chartered in 1766as Queen’s College, the eighthinstitution of higher learning toSTATEUNIVERSITYbe founded in the colonies, theschool opened its doors inNew Brunswick in 1771 withone instructor, one sophomore,and a handful of first-year students. During this early period,the college developed as aclassical liberal arts institution.In 1825, the name of the collegewas changed to Rutgers tohonor a former trustee andRevolutionary War veteran,Colonel Henry Rutgers.Rutgers College became theland-grant college of NewJersey in 1864, resulting in theestablishment of the RutgersScientific School with departments of agriculture, chemistry,and engineering. Further expansion in the sciences came withthe founding of the New JerseyOF NEW JERSEYAgricultural Experiment Stationin 1880, the College of Engineering(now the School of Engineering)in 1914, and the College ofAgriculture (now Cook College)in 1921. The precursors to several other Rutgers divisions alsowere founded during thisperiod: the College of Pharmacyin 1892, the New Jersey Collegefor Women (now DouglassCollege) in 1918, and the Schoolof Education (now a graduateschool) in 1924.Rutgers College assumeduniversity status in 1924, andlegislative acts in 1945 and 1956designated all its divisions asThe State University of NewJersey. During these years, theuniversity expanded significantly with the founding of an5

evening division, UniversityCollege, in 1934, and the addition of the University ofNewark in 1946 and the Collegeof South Jersey at Camdenin 1950.Since the 1950s, Rutgers hascontinued to expand, especiallyin the area of graduate education. The Graduate School–New Brunswick, the GraduateSchool–Newark, and theGraduate School–Camden servetheir respective campuses. Inaddition, several professionalschools have been establishedin such fields as applied andprofessional psychology, communication and informationstudies, criminal justice, the finearts, management, planning andpublic policy, and social work.A number of these schools offerundergraduate programs aswell. Livingston College wasfounded in 1969 to provide adiverse community of studentswith the opportunity to pursueundergraduate degrees in the6liberal arts and professions.Today, Rutgers continuesto grow, both in its facilitiesand in the variety and depthof its educational and researchprograms. The university’sgoals for the future includethe continued provision of thehighest-quality undergraduateand graduate education, alongwith increased support foroutstanding research to meetthe needs of society and fulfillRutgers’ role as The StateUniversity of New Jersey.INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATIONRutgers, The State Universityof New Jersey, is accredited bythe Middle States Commissionon Higher Education(http://www.msache.org), 3624Market Street, Philadelphia, PA19104-2680; 215/662-5606. TheMiddle States Commission onHigher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary ofEducation and the Council forHigher Education Accreditation.That accreditation was reviewedand endorsed in 1998, at the timeof its last review. Documentsdescribing the institution’s accreditation may be downloadedfrom the university’s web ml and http://oirap.rutgers.edu/MSAPRR.html, ormay be reviewed during regularoffice hours by contacting theOffice of Institutional Researchand Academic Planning,Rutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey, 85 Somerset Street,New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1281;732/932-7956.LICENSURERutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey, is duly licensed bythe New Jersey Commission onHigher Education (http://www.state.nj.us/highereducation).For more information, pleasecontact its Office of AcademicAffairs; 609/292-2955.

Faculty, Staff, andAdministrationRayman L. SolomonDean and Professor of Law.Dean Solomon earned hisB.A. in American history atWesleyan University in 1968and his M.A. in history at theUniversity of Chicago in 1972.In 1976, he earned his J.D. atthe University of Chicago,where he also earned hisPh.D. in history in 1986. Aftergraduation from law school,Dean Solomon was a lawclerk for Chief Judge George Edwards of the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Sixth Circuit. He subsequently joined theAmerican Bar Foundation as an associate director andbecame editor of the American Bar Foundation ResearchJournal. Dean Solomon began his teaching career in 1978 atthe University of Chicago Law School. He is author of TheHistory of the United States Court of Appeals for the SeventhCircuit, 1891–1941, as well as several articles that haveappeared in such books as The Oxford Companion to theSupreme Court of the United States. He is coeditor of a bookon the transformations of the American legal profession, towhich he contributed an article on the history of professionalism. Prior to joining Rutgers’ School of Law–Camden in1998, Dean Solomon served as associate dean for academicaffairs and administration at the Northwestern UniversitySchool of Law. He is involved actively in the AmericanSociety for Legal History and the Organization of AmericanHistorians.Randall S. AbateLegal Research and WritingFaculty. Mr. Abate earned hisB.A. cum laude in psychologyand philosophy at theUniversity of Rochester in1986, and his J.D. and M.S.L.in environmental law andpolicy at Vermont LawSchool in 1989. From 1989–1992, he was legal writinginstructor at Vermont LawSchool. In 1997, he joined thefaculty at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, as a legal methods professor and, from 1998–2001, he was a visiting associate professor and directorof the legal methods program at Widener-Harrisburg. Inaddition to teaching the first-year legal writing curriculumat Rutgers–Camden since 2001, Mr. Abate also teachesinternational environmental law and ocean and coastal law,and coaches the international environmental moot courtteam and the national moot court team. His most recentarticles on environmental and international environmentallaw topics have appeared in the NYU Environmental LawJournal, Pace International Law Review, Temple EnvironmentalLaw and Technology Journal, and Yale Journal on Regulation.Between his years in academia at Vermont and WidenerHarrisburg, Mr. Abate worked on environmental law matters at the Manhattan law firm Berle, Kass & Case and atthe New York City office of Arnold & Porter.Aaron Ari AfilaloAssistant Professor of Law.Professor Afilalo earned anA.B. and an LL.M. at HarvardUniversity and a J.D. magnacum laude at BostonUniversity, where he wasnote editor of the BostonUniversity Law Review. Aftergraduation from BostonUniversity, Professor Afilaloserved as law clerk to ChiefJustice Paul J. Liacos of theSupreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He then practiced law for several years in New York City, focusing oncross-border commercial transactions between Europe andthe United States. Before joining the Rutgers–Camden faculty, Professor Afilalo served for one year as Croft AssistantProfessor of Law and International Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he taught courses in EuropeanUnion law, public and private international laws, and banking law. He also taught courses in international trade andintellectual property as an adjunct professor at Suffolk LawSchool and was a legal writing instructor for graduate students at Harvard Law School. Professor Afilalo is admittedto the Bars of Massachusetts and New York. His publications include “The Impact of Union Bank v. Wolas on theOrdinary Course of Business Defense to a Trustee’sAvoiding Powers” (Boston University Law Review) and“Towards a ‘Common Law’ of Europe: Effective JudicialProtection, National Procedural Autonomy, and Standingto Litigate Diffuse Interests in the European Union”(Suffolk Transnational Law Review).7

Camille Spinello AndrewsAssociate Dean of Enrollmentand Projects. Ms. Andrewsearned her B.A. magna cumlaude in 1980 at the Universityof Pittsburgh, where she completed a four-year programin three years. She earned herJ.D. with honors in 1986 atRutgers’ School of Law–Camden, where she was amember of the Law Reviewand the National Moot CourtTeam. She is a member of the Bars of New Jersey,Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and of theAmerican Bar Association Antitrust, Litigation and LegalEducation, and Administration section. She served ascochair of the American Bar Association’s law schooladministration committee in 2001–2002. Ms. Andrews wasa partner with Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman inPhiladelphia prior to joining the law school in June 1996.Her responsibilities at the law school include overseeingadmissions and teaching courses in antitrust, evidence,federal practice, complex litigation, and professionalresponsibility. Ms. Andrews is very active with continuinglegal education and regularly lectures and publishes forThe New Jersey Institute for Continuing Education on avariety of topics, including professional responsibility, sexual discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, andrainmaking. In 1999, she was awarded the DistinguishedService Award for Excellence in Continuing LegalEducation by the New Jersey Bar and Institute forContinuing Legal Education.Stephen M. BallAssistant Director of CareerServices. A 1996 graduate ofRutgers’ School of Law–Camden, Mr. Ball practicedbankruptcy law in SouthJersey prior to joining theOffice of Career Services.Before and during law school,he worked in the marketingdepartment of the FederalNational MortgageAssociation (Fannie Mae) inPhiladelphia for 11 years. His responsibilities there includednegotiating and closing large, complex secondary mortgagemarket transactions with mortgage originators, includingmortgage companies and depository institutions. He alsoworked at the International Banking Group at the IrvingTrust Company in Manhattan. Mr. Ball earned his bachelor’sdegree in political science at Rutgers College in 1979 andhis M.B.A. from Rutgers Business School: Graduate–Newarkand New Brunswick (formerly known as the GraduateSchool of Management) in Newark, graduating with honorsin 1984. He is a member of the Bars of New Jersey andPennsylvania.8David BatistaFaculty Research and PublicServices Librarian. Mr. Batistaearned his A.B. in 1972 andM.S. in 1983 at the Universityof Illinois. In 1978, he earnedhis J.D. at Southern IllinoisUniversity. Prior to comingto Rutgers, he was employedas a reference librarian at theUniversity of PennsylvaniaLaw Library.John S. BeckermanAssociate Dean for AcademicAffairs. Mr. Beckermanearned his A.B. in 1966 atUnion College, where hewas elected to Phi BetaKappa; his M.A. in 1968 atthe University of Iowa; hisPh.D. in history in 1972 at theUniversity of London, wherehe was a Marshall Scholar;and his J.D. at Yale LawSchool in 1983. Before attending law school, he taught European history at Yale andHaverford College. Following graduation, he served as alaw clerk for the Honorable José A. Cabranes, then U.S.District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and practicedlaw privately in New York City. He is a member of theAmerican Law Institute and has published in the areas ofcivil discovery and professional responsibility, securitieslitigation, and the early history of English law. His classicarticle, “Let the Money Do the Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in SecuritiesClass Actions” (with Elliott J. Weiss), is credited withinspiring Congress to enact the lead plaintiff provisions ofthe Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 andinducing the participation of large institutional investors inclass action securities litigation. Prior to joining the facultyat Rutgers, he taught at the University of Michigan LawSchool and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He hasbeen a director of the Yale Law School Fund and volunteersas an emergency medical technician, certified by the state ofNew Jersey Department of Health. He is responsible foroverseeing the law school curriculum and teaches in theareas of civil procedure, complex litigation, business organizations, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions,and professional responsibility.

Linda S. BosniakProfessor of Law. ProfessorBosniak earned her B.A.magna cum laude and withhigh honors in general scholarship at Wesleyan Universityin 1980. She earned her M.A.in Latin American Studies atthe University of California(Berkeley) in 1988, and herJ.D. with distinction atStanford University, also in1988. Prior to joining theSchool of Law–Camden faculty, she practiced civil libertiesand labor law in New York City with Rabinowitz, Boudin,Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, and served as a law clerkat the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She has publishedextensively on immigration, nationalism, and citizenshipin the law and in political theory, in journals such as Northwestern University Law Review, New York University LawReview, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and Social Text,and has contributed to several volumes of edited essays.She is currently at work on a book entitled The Citizen andThe Alien Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (forthcoming, Princeton University Press). Professor Bosniak teachesimmigration law, constitutional law, employment discrimination law, and administrative law, as well as seminars oncitizenship and on refugee law. During the 2001–2002 academic year, she served as a law and public affairs fellowand visiting professor at Princeton University. She is on theadvisory board of the Rutgers Center for the CriticalAnalysis of Contemporary Culture in New Brunswick andwill serve as acting director for the 2003–2004 academic year.A. Hays ButlerReference and GovernmentDocuments Librarian.Mr. Butler earned his B.A. in1972 at Middlebury College.He earned his J.D. at BostonCollege Law School in 1975.Mr. Butler practiced lawfor 20 years before decidingto make a career change.He earned his M.S. atDrexel University’s Collegeof Information Science andTechnology in 1997.Michael A. CarrierAssistant Professor of Law.Professor Carrier earned hisB.A. summa cum laude in 1991at Yale College and his J.D.cum laude in 1995 at MichiganLaw School, where he wasbook review editor of theMichigan Law Review. Afterlaw school, he clerked forJudge John D. Butzner, Jr., onthe U.S. Court of Appeals forthe Fourth Circuit, and thenworked from 1996–2000 at Covington & Burl

In 1950, the School of Law was merged with Rutgers University and, along with the Newark Law School, became part of the State University School of Law. In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Governors, the Schools of Law of Camden and Newark were established as autonomous units in 1967. The school is a member of the Association of .