Rutgers University,officially Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey,is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766,Rutgers was originally called Queen's College,and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States,the second-oldest in New Jersey after Princeton University,and one of nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.
Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located on a ridge in northern-central New Jersey,Berkeley Heights is a commuter town of New York City in the New York metropolitan area,nestled within the Raritan Valley region and also bordering both Morris and Somerset counties in the Passaic Valley region. As of the 2020 United States census,the township's population was 13,285,an increase of 102 (+0.8%) from the 2010 census count of 13,183,which in turn reflected a decline of 224 (−1.7%) from the 13,407 counted in the 2000 census.
The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of New Jersey. The office of governor is an elected position with a four-year term. There is a two consecutive term term limit,with no limitation on non-consecutive terms. The official residence of the governor is Drumthwacket,a mansion located in Princeton,New Jersey. The governor’s office is located inside of the New Jersey State House in Trenton,making New Jersey notable as the executive’s office is located in the same building as the legislature. New Jersey is also notable for being one of the few states in which the governor’s official residence is not located in the state capital.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark,New Jersey with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston,NJIT opened as Newark Technical School (NTS) in 1885 with 88 students. As of fall 2022 the university enrolls 12,332 students from 92 countries,about 2,500 of whom live on its main campus in Newark's University Heights district.
Jonathan Stevens "Jon" Corzine is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006,and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran for a second term as governor but lost to Republican Chris Christie. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously worked at Goldman Sachs;after leaving politics,he was CEO of MF Global from 2010 until its collapse in 2011.
Brendan Thomas Byrne was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) was a state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey,United States.
John J. Farmer Jr. is an American author,lawyer,politician,and jurist. He is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics,where he also leads the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience (CPR). He served as acting governor of New Jersey for 90 minutes on January 8,2002,by virtue of his status as New Jersey Attorney General.
Nia H. Gill is an American Democratic Party politician,who has represented the 34th Legislative District in the New Jersey State Senate since 2002. She ran unsuccessfully as a candidate in the June 2012 primary election to fill the seat in Congress left vacant by the death of Donald M. Payne,the former U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district. Gill was the State Senate President pro Tempore from 2010 to 2018,succeeded by Teresa Ruiz.
Rutgers University–Newark is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University,a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. It is located in Newark. Rutgers,founded in 1766 in New Brunswick,is the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities. In 1945,the state legislature voted to make Rutgers University,then a private liberal arts college,into the state university and the following year merged the school with the former University of Newark (1936–1946),which became the Rutgers–Newark campus. Rutgers also incorporated the College of South Jersey and South Jersey Law School,in Camden,as a constituent campus of the university and renamed it Rutgers–Camden in 1950.
Rutgers University–Camden is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University,a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. It is located in Camden,New Jersey. Founded in 1929 as the South Jersey Law School,Rutgers–Camden began as an amalgam of the South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jersey. It is the southernmost of the three regional campuses of Rutgers—the others being located in New Brunswick and Newark. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Zulima Farber is the former Attorney General of New Jersey and the first Latina (Cuban) to serve as Acting Governor of New Jersey. She was appointed Attorney General in 2006 by Governor Jon Corzine and resigned on August 31,2006. She was succeeded by First Assistant Attorney General Anne Milgram on an interim basis until Stuart Rabner took office on September 26,2006.
Carmen Twillie Ambar is an American attorney,academic,and the current president of Oberlin College in Ohio. She was appointed to the post in May 2017.
Patrick E. Hobbs is an American attorney,academic administrator,and professor.
The New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate was a department within the Executive branch of the government of New Jersey that acted as a voice on behalf of the people of the state. It was responsible to make government "more accountable and responsive to the needs of New Jersey residents" through legal advocacy,policy research and reform and community and legislative outreach.
Annette M. Quijano is an American Democratic Party politician,who was selected by Union County Democrats to fill a vacancy to represent the 20th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly and has since been re-elected three times to her Assembly seat. Quijano succeeded Neil M. Cohen,who resigned on July 28,2008,amid allegations of child pornography on an official computer.
The Rutgers Law Review was a quarterly,scholarly journal focusing on legal issues,published by an organization of second- and third-year law students at the former Rutgers School of Law–Newark,in Newark,New Jersey. It was the flagship law review among the five accredited law journals at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Among its notable alumni are Ronald Chen,acting dean of the law school and former public advocate for the State of New Jersey,and Senator Elizabeth Warren,former professor of law at Harvard Law School and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout,formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University,with classrooms in Newark and Camden,New Jersey. It is the largest public law school and the 10th largest law school,overall,in the United States. Each class in the three-year J.D. program enrolls approximately 350 law students. Although Rutgers University dates from 1766,its law school was founded in Newark in 1908. Today,Rutgers offers the J.D. and a foreign-lawyer J.D.,as well as joint-degree programs that combine a J.D. with a graduate degree from another Rutgers graduate program.
Steven Goldstein is an American civil rights activist.
Rutgers University Law Review is an American law review created in 2015 from the merger of Rutgers Law Review and Rutgers Law Journal. It is edited and published by students at Rutgers Law School.
