Rutgers University - School of Law
Contact/ Disability Resource Center
Students with Disabilities Portal
Sarah Regina (Newark) and Louis Thompson (Camden), the Law School's Associate Deans of Student Affairs, work with students who may require accommodations and help guide them through the process of applying for accommodations through the University's Office of Disability Services (ODS). Rutgers values the diverse experiences that students with disabilities bring to the Law School community.
Students with disabilities who may require accommodations are encouraged to contact the appropriate Rutgers Law Associate Dean of Student Affairs or the Office of Disability Services in Newark or Camden as soon as possible to ensure that those accommodations are approved in a timely fashion. Students may begin the process of requesting services or accommodation by registering with ODS. Requests for accommodations must be accompanied by documentation specified by the Office of Disability Services.
The Office of Disability Services-Camden
Paul Robeson Library
300 4th Street
Camden, NJ 08102
Offices 133,134,135
Phone: 856.225.2717
Fax: 856.225.6084
E-mail: [email protected]
Office of Disability Services-Newark
Paul Robeson Campus Center 219
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
Newark, NJ 07204
Phone: 973.353.5375
Fax: 973.353.5666
E-mail: [email protected]
Clinics
Child and Family Advocacy Clinic
Students in this 8-credit clinic serve the needs of children and families who are at risk and living in poverty in Newark and surrounding areas and also educates law students to be thoughtful and highly-skilled practitioners by engaging in direct advocacy, community education and outreach, and policy and program development. The clinic primarily focuses on the legal needs of children in foster care, recently-arrived immigrant children, and low-income children with disabilities. (Newark)
Education and Health Law Clinic
Students provide free legal representation to indigent clients in special education, early intervention, and school discipline matters, and through a medical-legal partnership, students partner with medical professionals to address the legal and social needs of pediatric patients with disabilities and their families. (Newark)
Economic Justice and Public Benefits Clinic
This clinic represents lower-income clients and client groups in cases involving public benefits - principally the federal Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Disability Benefits programs. It also addresses issues involving state public assistance cash-benefit social welfare programs such as SNAP and other food/nutrition programs, and unemployment compensation.
Courses (Newark)
Mental Health Law
This course will examine various ways in which American law responds to the existence of mental illness. Readings and discussions explore such matters as privacy and the psychiatrist/patient privilege, the psychiatrist’s duty to warn potential victims of a patient’s violent impulses, a patient’s right to refuse medication, the standard for confining those mentally ill individuals who are “dangerous” in mental institutions, and the implications of mental illness for crime and punishment, including such issues as the insanity defense and competency to be executed.
Courses (Camden)
Disability Law
This course surveys the significant laws that protect the civil rights of people with disabilities, with a primary focus on the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the cases that interpret them. The Individuals With Disabilities in Education Act and the Fair Housing Act will also be addressed in lesser detail. In addition to the covering the doctrine that governs disability discrimination in the United States, the course will also explore the reasons why the disability laws have diverged from traditional Title VII doctrine and the benefits and limitations of the model of discrimination that is encompassed in the disability discrimination laws.