The Rutgers Law Review presents
A Centennial Symposium
A Legal Education Prospectus: Law Schools & Emerging Frontiers in Curriculum, Lawyering, and Social Justice
Friday, April 17, 2009
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Rutgers School of Law–Newark
123 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey
In the 100 years since the founding of Rutgers Law School, the legal community has engaged in ongoing debates concerning the proper methodologies of legal education. These debates, enhanced by dramatic technological advances and changing social perspectives, have renewed efforts to bring legal education into the modern era. This Symposium will explore the means employed by innovative law schools to equip graduates with legal theory and prepare them to become well-rounded professionals with social and global awareness.
Registration Information:
Breakfast and lunch will be served, and a cocktail reception will follow. The Symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information or to register, please e-mail Rutgers.symposium@gmail.com or call (973) 353 – 5391.
PROGRAM
Welcome:
Stuart Deutsch
Dean, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Keynote Speaker:–
Judith Welch Wegner
Co-Author of the Carnegie Report and Burton Craige Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel One: Curricular Innovation and Technology in Law Schools: New Paradigms in a New Century
Moderator:
Cynthia A. Blum
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Panelists:
David S. Clark
Willamette University College of Law
Robert Cullen
Santa Clara Law
Roger Dennis
Dean, Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law
Peter Martin
Cornell University Law School
Panel Two: Training Future Lawyers: All-Inclusive Approaches to Legal Education
Moderator:
Gregory Mark
Associate Dean for Institutional Affairs, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Panelists:
Michelle J. Anderson
Dean, CUNY School of Law
Daisy H. Floyd
Dean, Mercer University School of Law
Lisa Kloppenberg
Dean, University of Dayton School of Law
Richard Matasar
Dean, New York Law School
David Van Zandt
Dean, Northwestern University School of Law
Introduction to Afternoon:
Andrew J. Rothman
Senior Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Featured Speaker:
Emily A. Spieler
Dean, Northeastern School of Law
Panel Three: Lawyering with a Conscience: Rutgers School of Law and the Impact of Legal Education on Law Reform and Social Justice
Co-sponsored by Professor Paul Tractenberg’s Centennial Seminar. Hightlighting Rutgers Law alumni and professors committed to public interest and public service, in addition to those graduates who assumed integral roles in three landmark cases in New Jersey: Abbott v. Burke, In re Baby M., and In re Quinlan.
Moderators:
Neil Mullin
Partner, Smith Mullin, P.C.
Nancy Erika Smith
Partner, Smith Mullin, P.C.
Panelists:
Paul Armstrong
Judge, New Jersey Superior Court, Criminal Division
Lorraine Abraham
Partner, Schiffman, Abraham, Kaufman & Ritter, P.C.
Norman Cantor
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Ida Castro
Vice President of Social Justice and Diversity, The Commonwealth Medical College
Felipe Chavana
Executive Director, Essex–Newark Legal Services
Ronald Chen
Public Advocate, State of New Jersey
Greg Stewart
Former General Counsel, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
Paul Tractenberg
Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Cecilia Zalkind
Executive Director, Association for Children of New Jersey
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