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Clinical Associate Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Room E207 Camden, NJ 08102
F: 856-580-6298
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Biography
Carol L. Wallinger joined the Rutgers-Camden Law faculty in 2001, and since then has taught legal writing to both first-year and upper-level law students. She also has taught Workers' Compensation Law. Before joining the faculty, she taught Legal Writing at Temple University.
Professor Wallinger earned a B.S. in Nursing from Rutgers-Newark, cum laude, and a J.D. and Estate Planning Certificate from Temple University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Richard B. Klein, of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. She then entered private practice, where for over 12 years she represented employees and employers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey workers' compensation and insurance defense matters. She also practiced Social Security, Estate Planning and Elder Law.
Professor Wallinger concentrates her research on humanizing the law school experience, by applying Self-Determination Theory and Autonomy Support techniques. This empirical research builds on the ground-breaking work of Professor Larry Krieger, of Florida State University. In 2007, Professor Wallinger's research received support via a competitive scholarship from the Association of Legal Writing Directors.
On the national level, in 2007 she became a founding member of the board of directors of the new American Association of Law Schools "Balance in Legal Education" section, led by Professor Krieger. She also is the national chairperson of the Idea Bank Committee for the Legal Writing Institute, an organization whose members include law professors, judges and practitioners. Rutgers-Camden is now the home of this national teaching document database.
Publications
Publications
Forthcoming 2008 – Moving From First to Final Draft: An Empirical Look at Offering Autonomy Supportive Choices to Motivate Students to Internalize the Writing Process.
March 2004 - Pennsylvania Bar Institute Legal Editor, Subject Matter Index, of the 450-page March 2004 edition of Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Practice and Procedure. This is PBI’s flagship publication.
July 2003 - The Second Draft, Our Teaching Assistants Set Us Apart, Vol. 17, No. 2.
2002 and 1988 - Lawyers and Alcoholism: Is It Time for a New Approach? 61 Temp. L.Rev. 1409 (1988) with Michael A. Bloom. Republished in Richard A. Zitrin, Carol M. Langford, Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law, (2d. ed., Lexis 2002).
Presentations
July 2008 – 13th Biennial Convention of the Legal Writing Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
October 2007 - Humanizing Legal Education Conference, Topeka Kansas.
March 2007 - Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
June 2006 - 12th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, Georgia (Presentation plus Program Committee).
March 2006 - Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
June 2005 - Legal Writing Institute Writer's Workshop, Wisconsin.
July 2004 - 11th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Seattle, Washington.