Rutgers Law students and faculty helped vacate the the conviction of Armond McCloud, who was forced to falsely confess at age 20 to the 1994 shooting murder of 22-year-old Kei Sunada.
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The New Jersey Innocence Project at Rutgers University, directed by Newark-based law professor Laura Cohen, has helped exonerate a Hudson County man who served 20 years for a crime he did not commit.
A Rutgers Law School alumnus who attended the Newark campus led the Vegas Golden Knights NHL team to a Stanley Cup victory as President of Hockey Operations this spring.
Newark native Asia J. Norton, a former teacher who is president of the Newark school board, decided a law degree would give her even more tools to address inequities in her hometown. So in 2020, she enrolled in Rutgers Law School. She is a member of the Class of 2023.
Johanna Bond, an accomplished academic leader and legal scholar, will be the new dean of Rutgers Law School beginning July. Bond will join Rutgers after serving as Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law, an endowed chair in the School of Law at Washington and Lee University.
The Newark-based Rutgers Center for Transnational Law (CTL) is accepting applications for summer 2023 internship placements in human rights organizations throughout Latin America.