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Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest public law school in the United States by enrollment and the 10th largest overall, with each class in Rutgers Law's three-year J.D. program enrolling approximately 350 students. Founded in 1908, Rutgers offers the J.D. and foreign lawyer J.D. Rutgers has over 20,000 alumni practicing in all 50 U.S. states. In 2015, Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Rutgers School of Law–Camden were unified into a single law school with two campuses.
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Edward Morris Berger was an American librarian, discographer, author, editor, historian, photographer, educator, jazz producer, and record label owner. For more than forty years, Berger was affiliated with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. He was also a longtime friend and business associate of the jazz instrumentalist and composer Benny Carter.
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- ↑ "John Cotton Dana Library". Libraries.org. 27 January 2009.
- ↑ Edward P. Alexander (1 January 1983). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. Rowman Altamira. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-7619-9131-1.
- ↑ Edward Berger; Henry Martin; Dan Morgenstern; Evan Spring; George Bassett (1 June 2009). Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14. Scarecrow Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8108-6921-9.
- ↑ Watkins, Ann. "Institute of Jazz Studies To Receive Literary Landmarks Designation from the New Jersey Center for the Book". Rutgers-Newark. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
