Professor Suzanne Kim presented her work-in-progress, titled “Revisiting Frontiero,” at Brooklyn Law School as part of the Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers’ Conference. (June 5) 

Professor John Joergensen, Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library, presented at PhillyDH, an organization of Philadelphia librarians who work with digital collections in the humanities. The event was held at the University of Pennsylvania. (June 4)

Assistant Professor Anju Gupta, Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, presented “The New Nexus”) 85 Colo. L. Rev. ___, forthcoming 2013) at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section’s Annual Conference, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico (April) and at the Emerging Immigration Scholars and Teachers Conference at the University of California at Irvine. (June)

Speaking as part of the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, held in Boston, Professor Suzanne Kim presented her work-in-progress titled “Marriage Equalities: Gender and Social Norms in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriage.” (May 31)

Professor David Troutt was the principal speaker at the 2013 BONJ/Together North Jersey Forum, held in West Orange, on building support for policies that promote stable and inclusive communities and an environmentally sustainable region. (May 30)

Professor Paul Tractenberg was one of two debate panelists at the Newark Student Conference on Education Reform, at which high school students who are members of the Jersey Urban Debate League asked the panelists questions about standardized testing, the debate topic. (May 21)  

Assistant Professor Taja-Nia Henderson presented “Crucibles of Discontent: Penal Practice in the Shadow of Slavery, 1796-1865” at the Golieb Research Colloquium at New York University School of Law. (May 1) 

Associate Dean John Joergensen, Director of the Law Library, participated in a legal ontology metadata workshop at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School concerning the center’s Freeing the Law project. (May 1)

The Spring 2013 issue of the Washburn Law Journal has published “Judicial Notice and the Internet: The Legal Reasoning and Technical Basis for Taking Judicial Notice of the Fact That Internet Pages Display from the Top-Left Hand Corner Out” by Adjunct Professor Jonathan Bick, of counsel at Brach Eichler, LLC.

Clinical Professor Esther Canty-Barnes was a panelist at the “Transition to Adult Life Conference” presented by the Family Support Organization of Essex and held in Newark.

Professor Jonathan Hyman presented as a panelist on the panel “Mediation First or Last? A Conversation” at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section’s Annual Conference, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (April 30)

Legal Research and Writing Instructor Amy Bitterman has been awarded one of three 2013 LWI/ALWD/LexisNexis Scholarship Grants. Her winning proposal was titled “In the Beginning: Priming, Foreshadowing and the Art of Crafting Preliminary Statements in Persuasive Writing.” Bitterman also was invited to teach a month-long course on Introduction to the American Legal System as part of the Open Society program at Bilgi University, Istanbul.  

Professor Jonathan Hyman was a panelist for “Mediation First or Last? A Conversation” at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Education Section Annual Conference, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (April 30)

Professor Howard Latin’s recent book Climate Change Policy Failures: Why Conventional Mitigation Approaches Cannot Succeed was the focus of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal’s annual symposium, titled “Decarbonization: A New Direction for Climate Change Policy.” (April 13)

Adjunct Professor Abed Awad was a panelist for the “Anti-Sharia and the U.S. Constitution” symposium held at the University of Arkansas School of Law. (April 12)

As a panelist at the Harvard Law School conference titled “Toward a Civil Gideon: The Future of Legal Services,” Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. presented “Thinking Outside the Box, Apprenticeship and the Future of the Legal Profession.” (April 6) 

LEGAL ONE, the professional development partnership between the Rutgers Institute on Education Law and Policy, whose founding director is Professor Paul Tractenberg, the NJ Principals and Supervisors Association, and the Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission, has launched School Law TV, an online video program covering the latest developments in school law.

Clinical Professor Randi Mandelbaum presented at the workshop “Ethical Issues and Permanency Decisions” at the Children in Court Statewide Training for attorneys and judges, held in Galloway. 

Professor Jonathan Hyman presented “Modules of Thought and the Mediator’s Challenge” at the Justice Marie M. Garibaldi American Inn of Court, which was held in Basking Ridge. (March 18)

New England School of Law held a conference on Professor Stuart Green’s book Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, the proceedings of which will be published in the New England Law Review. (March 18)

Professor and Associate Dean Jon Dubin presented his article, “The Rutgers Cases and the State of the Law of State Law School Clinical Programs, 65 Rutgers L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2013) at New York Law School’s Clinical Theory Scholarship Workshop. (March 15)

Assistant Professor Taja-Nia Henderson has been selected to participate in the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, a competitive summer seminar for junior scholars in legal history.

FEBRUARY 2013

Adjunct Professor Abed Awad spoke at Howard Law School on “Islamic Law and U.S. Civil Law: Women’s Rights From a Comparative Legal Perspective” (Feb. 28) and as a panelist for the Eighth International Conference on Contracts at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. His topic was “Middle Eastern and Islamic Commercial Law.” (Feb. 22)

Professor Alan Hyde was a panelist for “Can NAFTA Be Made to Work Like the EU?” one of the sessions at the Fordham International Law Journal’s symposium titled Free Movement in North America: Is the EU a Model for NAFTA? (Feb. 15)

Assistant Professor Taja-Nia Henderson presented her paper “Slavery in Antebellum Jails” at the Navigating Place and Power graduate history conference at Duke University. (Feb. 15)

Assistant Professor Christina Ho gave a keynote address, titled “The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Turns Three: Trends and Future Issues,” at the 2013 Pharma Market Research Conference. (Feb. 5)

Assistant Professor Taja-Nia Henderson was an invited discussant at the Prison Scholarship Roundtable at the University of Michigan Law School. (Feb. 1)

Clinical Professor Jennifer Rosen Valverde presented “Advocacy Outside Hospital Doors and the H.E.A.L. (Health, Education, Advocacy & Law) Collaborative” at Pediatric Grand Rounds, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School).