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⚖️ Major legal shifts were anticipated at the start of 2025. We asked #RutgersLaw professors then to share expert analysis on cases expected to make headlines. See how those cases were decided and what they mean for the future: https://law.rutgers.edu/LegalIssuestoWatch2025
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December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
✨ Season's Greetings from Rutgers Law School!
Join Dean Johanna Bond as we celebrate the joy of the season and reflect on an incredible year at #RutgersLaw. We wish everyone a happy holiday season and a successful new year!
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Holiday Greetings from Dean Johanna Bond and Rutgers Law School!
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December 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#RutgersLaw Assistant Professor Greg Baltz gives a brief history of tenant unions to IPR Radio as organizing increases:
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Tenant unions are resurging in U.S. cities. Can they work in rural places like Cadillac?
Tenant unions are resurging across Michigan’s cities. In Cadillac, organizers are testing whether tenant organizing can work in rural areas, too.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Delighted to announce the CfP for Vol V of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory @OUPLaw w/ support fr @notredamelaw.bsky.social and @law.rutgers.edu. Papers to be presented at a workshop at @UctLaw in Cape Town in Jan '27. Pls submit!

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Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume V
Oxford University Press is pleased to announce a call for papers for Volume V of Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, edited by Paul Miller (Notre Dame) and John Oberdiek (Rutgers). Oxford Studi...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Most noncitizen foster kids have strong claims for immigration relief. Those claims often expire w/out legal help. #RutgersLaw Profs. Randi Mandelbaum & Joanne Gottesman explain why child welfare agencies must provide immigration attorneys, drawing on their model program with NJ DCF: bit.ly/492jmNE
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#RutgersLaw Prof. @jorgecontesse.bsky.social speaks with the editors-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law to discuss his essay, "President Trump Targets Latin American Countries and Nationals as He Begins His Second Term"

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Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on the View from Latin America
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December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Final #RutgersLaw newsletter of the year! A clinic partners with Rutgers Business School to boost small businesses; 3 distinguished faculty retire; Prof. Christina Ho joins Dean Johanna Bond on #PowerofAttorney for “Secret Lives of Lawyers” & more!
https://go.rutgers.edu/dec2025news
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December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🗳 The Legal Writing Institute Board has elected Prof. Amy Soled ’90 as secretary! With 1,700+ members, the non-profit, all-volunteer group is dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, & improving the status of legal writing faculty nationwide.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This semester, Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy (ILP) hosted Rodrigo Parra Salamanca, a visiting fellow from Spain researching contract law, legal interpretation, and the philosophy of private law. Read more: https://law.rutgers.edu/news/Rutgers-ILP-visiting-scholar
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December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#RutgersLaw Prof. Reid Weisbord, who analyzed the wills of Gene Hackman and his wife, says it's not even clear who is conducting the auction of the late actor's prized possessions:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15345541/Gene-Hackman-auction-hollywood-estate.html (paywall)
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Mysterious Gene Hackman auction reveals secret obsessions he hid
Hackman lived out his days in the artsy New Mexico city of Santa Fe, far from the public eye, and swore that he wasn't in the least nostalgic. Yet that wasn't quite true.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#RutgersLaw Prof. @mcarrier.bsky.social's Rule of Reason article, co-written with @marklemley.bsky.social, was cited in Sportico in the context of Congress’s non-action addressing college athletes: https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2025/score-act-punt-congress-courts-judges-1234878524/
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Congress' SCORE Act Punt Shows Why Judges Call the Shots on NCAA
Congress declining to vote on the SCORE Act highlights that if college sports wants legal help, it should come up with laws that judges find lawful.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#RutgersLaw Professor Ron Chen weighs in on the administrative subpoena at the center of a US Supreme Court case involving a New Jersey anti-abortion center and the state’s Attorney General:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-supreme-court-case-death-175551340.html
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Could this Supreme Court case be the death of anti-abortion centers? Or limit state’s powers?
Attorneys for a New Jersey anti-abortion center and the state's Attorney General argued their cases Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The US solicitor general urged SCOTUS to review ‘skinny labeling’ and generic drug access. #RutgersLaw Prof. @mcarrier.bsky.social explains why a second consecutive decision not to review the issue “will discourage generics from pursuing this path": www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Solicitor general urges Supreme Court to review ‘skinny labeling’ and generic drug access
In a closely watched case, the U.S. solicitor general has urged the Supreme Court to review a controversy over so-called skinny labels for medicines.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎙New Podcast Drop!
In our latest Power of Attorney #podcast, #RutgersLaw Professor Christina Ho joins Dean Johanna Bond to discuss her inspiring legal career, research on the U.S. healthcare system, and her life as a ballerina.
🔗 Listen or watch now: https://go.rutgers.edu/poa-christina-ho
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A group of East Orange tenants facing a nearly 100% rent hike are being represented by the #RutgersLaw Housing Justice and Tenant Solidarity Clinic:
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East Orange tenants who sued landlord over apartment conditions facing steep rent hike
The receiver who took over the ailing property in East Orange is now calling for a huge hike in rent, leading to outrage, concern and legal action from tenants.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On this #GivingTuesday, listen to this episode of the #PowerofAttorney #podcast. The Hon. Stephen Orlofsky '74 talks with Dean Johanna Bond about his journey from the Vietnam War to #RutgersLaw to serving on the bench to giving back as an alumnus: zencastr.com/z/Pnh5CnkO
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December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#RutgersLaw Professor @david.noll.org explains the stakes in the contempt proceeding before the federal trial court judge who directed the Trump Administration to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants:
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Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📘 #Comingsoon from #RutgersLaw Professor Matteo Gatti!
"A rigorously argued, essential read for anyone grappling with the modern intersection of corporate governance, social activism, and the law."

Corporate Power and the Politics of Change by @matteog.bsky.social, @law.rutgers.edu | Coming Soon

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November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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"A rigorously argued, essential read for anyone grappling with the modern intersection of corporate governance, social activism, and the law."

Corporate Power and the Politics of Change by @matteog.bsky.social, @law.rutgers.edu | Coming Soon

#LawSky #Governance 🗺️

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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In the latest issue of the #RutgersLaw newsletter:
*FCC Commissioner discusses free speech
*Our Power of Attorney podcast wins two more awards
*Don't miss the latest episode with the Hon. Stephen Orlofsky
*Rutgers Law Associates is hiring
👉 Read all about it: go.rutgers.edu/nov2025news-...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Hon. Stephen Orlofsky '74 joins #RutgersLaw Dean Johanna Bond on the Power of Attorney podcast to discuss why he established the Stephen M. Orlofsky Endowed Appellate Advocacy Fund, his journey from the Vietnam War to law school, and his distinguished career. (1/2)
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@riipl.bsky.social & @freepress.bsky.social hosted a panel w. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez at Rutgers-Camden. She joined New Jersey community leaders to discuss government censorship and media control. Read the story, explore photos and watch the replay here: law.rutgers.edu/news/free-sp...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A recent anthology co-edited by #RutgersLaw Professor
@saharazizlaw.bsky.social is on HerZindagi's top 5 list of books that provide scholarly research information on Islamophobia: www.herzindagi.com/your-picks/r...
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Top 5 Islamophobia Books To Understand The Mindset Behind
Here are the top 5 Islamophobia books available on Amazon that provide scholarly research information that can be helpful to students, teachers, and any other scholar studying the subject.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#ICYMI Here's the replay of yesterday's Free Speech & Local News panel that took place at Rutgers-Camden yesterday and was co-hosted by #RutgersLaw...
Happening now, at @law.rutgers.edu, with @freepress.bsky.social and Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social on her #FirstAmendment tour. To hear about free expression and local news in New Jersey in a time of grave authoritarian threat.

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A Critical Crossroads for Free Speech and Local News
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November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM