Law

Rutgers Law School celebrates Veteran's Day with profiles of student veterans, including two from the Newark campus.

Rutgers Law School received $6.5 million, one of the largest gifts in its history, to help establish the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Clinic. The gift was announced at a ceremony celebrating a commemorative stamp of Ginsburg.

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 to October 15, Rutgers Law School honors the cultures and achievements of the Latinx diaspora by recognizing groundbreaking alumni from its Newark and Camden campuses.

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.

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.