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Adjunct LRW Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
F: 856-225-6516
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Biography
Linda A. Shashoua is a member of the Legal Writing Faculty, and a full-time Assistant Prosecutor with the Office of the Camden County Prosecutor. She received her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Rutgers-New Brunswick, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law. As a prosecutor, she specializes in state and federal appellate litigation, arguing before the New Jersey Supreme Court on landmark issues of state constitutional law, such as search-and-seizure, jury selection and substitution, standard of review, and sentencing. She is also a frequent lecturer at the Camden County Police Academy, training police supervisors and recruits in subjects such as Use of Force, High-Speed Pursuit, Homicide, Narcotics, and Environmental Offenses.
In her eleventh year with Rutgers-Camden Law School, she has taught the first-year legal research and writing curriculum, as well as Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Advanced Brief-Writing, the Criminal Externship Seminar, and The Criminal Justice System: Theory and Practice.
Professor Shashoua received the Lawyering Professor of the Year award in 2008.
Publications
"Navigating Natale: The Second Wave," The Barrister, Vol. 55, No. 10 (June 2007).
"Protect the Record, Preserve the Plea," The Barrister, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Feb. 2003).
"Writing Out Loud: Making Conferences Work for the Student, and Professor," The Second Draft, the Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (December 2002).
"Walking in Our Shoes: Instruction Through Simultaneous Performance," The Second Draft, the Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (May 2002).
Presentations:
Panelist, "Black Letter Law Blast," Camden County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (January 2009 & January 2008, Voorhees, NJ).
Shashoua, Linda A., Bridging the Gap: Using Real-World Experience To Teach Oral Argument Skills, Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference (March 11, 2005, The College of Law at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona).