The law school's centers and institutes integrate faculty scholarship and activity, student interests and participation, and outreach to the larger university, legal, and other communities.

The Center for Law, Science and Technology supports faculty and student interest in intellectual property law, as well as in the intersection of law and science more generally. Among other things, the Center holds an annual conference on patent law, involving leaders from the judiciary, practice, industry, and the academic community, as well as roundtables in which members of each community are invited to discuss specific topics in a more informal atmosphere. The Center includes students in all its activites, creating unique opportunities for them to meet and converse with leading participants in this vital and growing sphere of legal activity.

The Center for Institutional Governance supports student and faculty work in the governance of non-profit, for-profit, and small governmental bodies, especially the governance difficulties shared in common by these institutions. In recent months the Center has brought to the law school the general counsels or leading officers of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and NASDAQ, as well as top practitioners in law firms to speak with classes, meet students, and discuss matters with faculty members.

The Institute on Education Law and Policy is New Jersey’s premier center for interdisciplinary research and innovative thinking on education policy. Issues affecting New Jersey’s urban students and educators are the Institute’s primary focus, but those issues are addressed in the context of the state’s wide diversity and with an eye toward their ramifications for the nation as a whole. The Institute supports collaborative interdisciplinary research, produces reports and other publications, holds meetings and conferences, and analyzes education law and policy for the benefit of policy makers and the public.