LAW SCHOOL AT CAMDEN

Inquiries for full admission to the Law School at Camden should be directed to the Office of Law Admissions, 406 Penn St., Camden, NJ 08102, 856-225-6102. Non-Rutgers law students interested in taking summer law courses should contact the Associate Dean's Office or the Rutgers Camden Law School Internet site to register:

Phone: (856) 225-6546
Fax: (856) 225-6487
Email: john.beckerman@camlaw.rutgers.edu
Net: www-camlaw.rutgers.edu

SUMMER 2008 SCHEDULE
NOTE: All courses run May 27 to July 15, 2008 except where noted.

FIRST YEAR COURSE (JUMPSTART PROGRAM)
Torts (Cr.4)
24:601:541:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu,W,Th 11:10am-1:00pm
Braithwaite
Email: dennisbr@camden.rutgers.edu

24:601:541:Sec.L2
5/27-7/15 M,Tu,W,Th 4:10pm-6:00pm
Maltz
Email: emaltz@camlaw.rutgers.edu
Protection of personal integrity, including, for example, freedom from personal contact and infliction of mental distress and compensation for personal injuries; the fault system analyzed and compared to modern insurance theory and strict liability concepts.

Civil Procedure (Cr.4)
24:601:501:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu,W,Th 10:10am-12:00pm
Beckerman
Email: john.beckerman@camden.rutgers.edu
Development of procedure; jurisdiction and venue; stating the plaintiff's claims; amendments; defendants' responsive pleadings; discovery; pretrial; disposition of cases with trial; right to jury trial; res judicata; parties; interpleader; intervention; class suits; impleader; introduction to appellate review.

UPPER LEVEL DAY COURSES
Civil Practice Clinic (Cr.4)
24:601:794:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M 4:10pm-6:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Gottesman and Overton
Email: overton@camden.rutgers.edu
Prerequisites: Completion of 56 course credits and Evidence and Professional Responsibility and permission of instructor. Exclusions: Students may not enroll simultaneously in the law school's Externship Program. Students must be available at times other than the scheduled class hours to accommodate court appearances and to meet with clients, classmates, and the instructors. Meetings may be arranged at the student's convenience, but some scheduling flexibility is required. The Civil Practice Clinic involves both client representation and a seminar component. Students provide representation in civil cases under the supervision of an attorney. Working with a student partner, all steps necessary to representation are undertaken, including interviewing clients, making strategic decisions, drafting documents and briefs, conducting negotiations and making all court appearances. Focuses on skills necessary to client representation, ethical issues, and the roles of attorney and counselor. Students will be assigned to cases in one of several areas, such as Elder Law and Special Education Law. Students working on Elder Law cases provide representation to senior citizens in consumer fraud matters, Social Security disability, public benefits cases, landlord-tenant eviction actions, and draft wills and advance directives. Students engage in both affirmative and defensive litigation, and provide preventive legal planning and client advice. Students working on special education cases provide representation to children seeking a free appropriate education and related services in the least restrictive environment. These cases require representation in negotiations, mediations, and at administrative hearings, including work with clients, their families, and special education experts.

Commercial Law: Introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code (Cr.3)
24:601:665:Sec.L1
6/23/-7/14 M,Tu,W,Th 3:00pm-6:10pm
Hyland
Email: hyland@camden.rutgers.edu
Students who have previously taken Sales or Secured Transactions may not take this course. This course provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of commercial law. A survey course, it explores all articles of the Uniform Commercial Code as well as international dimensions of commercial law. Completion of this course gives students a firm footing for any advanced course in commercial law. Students taking only one course in commercial law will, in this course, receive broad exposure to the basics of commercial law.

Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure (C.3)
24:601:564:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 Tu,Th 4:10pm-6:00pm
Mallgrave
Prerequisite: None. Students will be required to spend approximately two half-days on their own schedule at a New Jersey courthouse observing domestic violence restraining order hearings. These hearings take place during regular business hours on days determined by the County, but never on Fridays. Explores domestic violence in the context of family law and from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will learn the basic psychology of abuse as well as the legal response. Course work includes a series of simulations designed to teach interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and legal advocacy in the context of the restraining order process (including brief writing for writing credit students).

Professional Responsibility (Cr.3)
24:601:582:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu,Th 12:30pm-2:20pm
Freedman
Email: aefreedm@camlaw.rutgers.edu
This course is a graduation requirement for all students. Explores the legal constraints and ethical considerations confronting the legal profession. Analyzes the role(s) of the lawyer and the sometimes competing obligations of the lawyer to the client, society, the court, and the self. Specific problems examined include: lawyer regulation, advertising and solicitation, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and the adversary system of justice.

Summer Externship (Cr.6)
24:601:795:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 Time by arrangement
Katz
Email: hnkatz@camlaw.rutgers.edu
Prerequisites: (1) All students must have completed Professional Responsibility. (2) Any student taking a placement that requires appearance in court on behalf of a client must take Evidence. Professional Responsibility and Evidence (if required) must be completed prior to enrollment in Externship. (3) Any student taking a placement in a criminal litigation agency must take Criminal Procedure: The Adjudication Process or Criminal Procedure: The Investigatory Process (these courses may be taken concurrently with the enrollment). Enrollment limited to twelve students. Students will work 320 hours over 7-10 weeks of the summer for a public agency and or private nonprofit agencies. If space is available some students may work for state or federal judges. In addition to the agency work, students participate in seminars relating to the work done in their placements, and write journals reflecting on their experiences. The instructor will determine whether to conduct the classroom component on line, depending on location of summer student work assignments.

Negotiation (Cr.2)
24:601:544:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Th 10:30am-12:20pm
Shore
Exclusion: Students who have taken 601:647 Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation may not take this course. Examines the theory and practice of negotiation by lawyers and others. Readings acquaint the student with research findings on the structure and psychology of negotiation and decision- making paradigms; the effect of agency, multiple parties and negotiator group characteristics and personality; and laws concerning the ethics and limitations of negotiation and settlement. Simulations enable each student to identify the factors studied in realistic scenarios and practice the skills necessary to respond to those factors.

UPPER LEVEL EVENING COURSES
Advanced Legal Research (Cr.2)
5/27-7/15 M 8:10pm-10:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Capasso and Joergensen
Email: lcapasso@camden.rutgers.edu, jjoerg@camden.rutgers.edu
Contact instructor for more information.

Bankruptcy (Cr.3)
24:601:689:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
Ryan
Email: pryanb@camlaw.rutgers.edu
Introduction to the state and federal law governing debtor and creditor relations. Reviews state law collection techniques and practices (statutory and judicial liens, writs of garnishment and execution, exemptions), fraudulent conveyance rules, assignments and receiverships. Presents federal law of consumer and business bankruptcy, both liquidation and reorganization.

Comparative Law (Cr.3)
24:601:503:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 8:10pm-10:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Livington
Email: maliving@camlaw.rutgers.edu
Examines and compares different areas of law and differences between legal systems, with the goal of preparing students for international practice. Efforts are made to include Third World as well as Western legal systems. Among the issues to be investigated are differences between common and civil law systems; the varying roles of judges, juries and prosecutors; differing approaches to statutory interpretation; and the effect of colonial history, as in the cases of India and Israel, on the structure of legal systems. Although all materials are in English, there may be an opportunity for students proficient in foreign languages to do research in foreign language materials.

Criminal Procedure: Investigations (Cr.3)
24:601:655:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 8:10pm-10:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Foley
An in-depth study of the investigatory stage of the criminal process. Focuses on the power of the courts to shape criminal procedure and their capacity to control police investigatory practices, such as arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, and identification through the fourth, fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendments. Discusses the role of counsel in this process and explores competing theories of criminal procedure and related systems of social control, such as the juvenile justice system and civil commitment of the mentally ill.

Disability Law (Cr.2)
5/27-7/15 M 8:10pm-10:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Chase
Email: vlchase@camden.rutgers.edu
Contact instructor for more information.

Family Law (Cr.3)
24:601:658:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
Schalick
Email: schalick@camden.rutgers.edu
A survey of state and federal law as it impinges on the family, including marriage, divorce, child custody, child neglect and abuse, spouse abuse, property, adoption, nonmarital families and children, constitutional law, tax, welfare, and social insurance. Includes a brief introduction to lawyering skills relevant to domestic relations practice.

Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation
24:601:647:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
Lore
Email: jclore@camden.rutgers.edu
Exclusion: Students who complete this course may not enroll in 601:520 Interviewing and Counseling. Theory and skills of these lawyer/client and lawyer/lawyer roles. Includes simulations, some of which will be videotaped and individually critiqued. Topics include the nature of the lawyer/client interview, planning and structure of an interview, the lawyer's development and testing of factual and legal theories, psychological and ethical issues, techniques and ethics of assisting clients to make decisions, models for describing negotiation behavior, techniques of adversarial and other forms of bargaining, and problem-solving. Simulations enable students to develop a beginning level of proficiency in these skills. Grades based on two majors simulations and on a final exam.

Introduction to International Law (Cr.3)
24:601:621:Sec.L6
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
McLeod
Provides answers to the questions that one should ask initially about any legal system:

1. What are the sources of its norms (e.g., consensus, legislation, dictatorial fiat) and how can one identify them or, put a little differently, choose claims about the law governing a particular transaction?
2. What are the principal values that the legal system expresses?
3. What are the principal institutions for making and applying the law?
4. What is the legal system's relationship with other legal systems (cf., the relationship between state and federal law in the United States)?
5. What kinds of activities by what kinds of people or entities are governed or affected by the system?
6. What are its most important substantive and procedural norms?

Questions 4, 5, and 6 are closely related, for in the process of describing the reach of the international legal system (e.g., protecting aliens, delimiting national jurisdiction over the marine environment, guaranteeing the integrity of national frontiers), one must coincidentally explore the relationship between the domestic and the international legal orders (e.g., the legitimacy of extending domestic jurisdiction to govern behavior_polluting, monopolizing, deceiving_ occurring outside a nation's territory), and the substance of the rights and obligations and the privileges and immunities that comprise the body of international law. The survey of substantive and procedural norms includes such issues as the use of the sea and seabed, the use of force, and the protection of human rights.

Juvenile Law (Cr.3)
24:601:533:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
Simkins
Email: ssimkins@camden.rutgers.edu
Examines the rights of children in the context of the juvenile delinquency system. How are children in the juvenile justice system treated differently from adult offenders? To what extent should they be? These questions provide the focus for examining how the state treats the "aberrant" behavior of children. Students are introduced to the legal, social, and historical underpinnings of the juvenile justice system in the United States beginning with founding of the juvenile court in 1899 and then-held assumptions about the nature of childhood. Considers how in the late twentieth century the juvenile court has undergone both ideological and institutional change from its original form. These shifts in theory are analyzed through critical constitutional rights case law, case studies, and potential legal remedies. The evidence of psychological and social science data that have a continuing impact on juvenile court practice and jurisdiction are also explored. In addition, the overlap between the juvenile justice system, the education system, the mental health system and the dependency system are considered. Also examined is how race, gender and poverty affect outcomes for children in delinquency court.

Persuasion in Legal Writing (Cr.2)
24:601:513:Sec.L6
5/27-7/15 M 8:10pm-10:00pm, Th 6:10pm-8:00pm
Schalick
Email: schalick@camden.rutgers.edu
Because lawyers, as advocates, must be able to understand and employ techniques of persuasion, this course examines the art of persuasion in depth using interdisciplinary approaches. Effective use of literary or historical references, classical rhetoric theory (particularly the concepts of ethos/pathos/logos), psychology theories, and visual design theories are all considered.

Students are required to write weekly assignments based on class discussions and readings, as well as to complete longer writing assignments throughout the semester. Examples of possible assignments include: analyzing persuasion techniques used in particular judicial opinions, writing a dissenting or concurring opinion based on the student conclusions and critiques, and/or analyzing and rewriting aspects of attorney work product. Students receive feedback on written work, and grades are based on the overall portfolio.

Professional Responsibility (Cr.3)
24:601:582:Sec.L2
5/27-7/15 M,Tu 6:10pm-8:00pm, Th 8:10pm-10:00pm
Shashoua
Email: shashous@camlaw.rutgers.edu
This course is a graduation requirement for all students. Explores the legal constraints and ethical considerations confronting the legal profession. Analyzes the role(s) of the lawyer and the sometimes competing obligations of the lawyer to the client, society, the court, and the self. Specific problems examined include: lawyer regulation, advertising and solicitation, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and the adversary system of justice.

Summer Externship (Cr.6)
24:601:795:Sec.L1
5/27-7/15 Time by arrangement
Katz
Prerequisites: (1) All students must have completed Professional Responsibility. (2) Any student taking a placement that requires appearance in court on behalf of a client must take Evidence. Professional Responsibility and Evidence (if required) must be completed prior to enrollment in Externship. (3) Any student taking a placement in a criminal litigation agency must take Criminal Procedure: The Adjudication Process or Criminal Procedure: The Investigatory Process (these courses may be taken concurrently with the enrollment). Enrollment limited to twelve students. Students will work 320 hours over 7-10 weeks of the summer for a public agency and or private nonprofit agencies. If space is available some students may work for state or federal judges. In addition to the agency work, students participate in seminars relating to the work done in their placements, and write journals reflecting on their experiences. The instructor will determine whether to conduct the classroom component on line, depending on location of summer student work assignments.