Biography

Sheila Rodriguez joined the Rutgers-Camden faculty in 2006 after teaching Legal Process at Pacific McGeorge School of Law and Appellate Advocacy at Golden Gate University School of Law.

From 1994 to 2001, Professor Rodriguez was a freelance legal writer in Northern California. Her legal writing clients included the Animal Protection Institute, now Born Free USA, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Sacramento. As Counsel for that organization, she testified before Congress on critical habitat issues affecting wild horses and burros throughout the Western United States.

From 1988 to 1994, Professor Rodriguez, an instrument-rated commercial pilot, practiced appellate and administrative law with the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, DC and Chicago.

Professor Rodriguez is a 1988 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. She holds a BA in Psychology and Political Science, and an MA in English, from SUNY Buffalo.

Publications

Letting Students Teach Each Other: Using Peer Conferences in Upper-Level Writing, 13 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. (forthcoming Winter 2012).

Teaching a Legal Research "Laboratory Class," in Techniques for Teaching Law II 36 (Gerald F. Hess, et al. eds., 2011).

The Morally Informed Consumer: Examining Animal Welfare Claims on Egg Labels, 30 Temp. J. Science, Tech. & Envtl. L. 51 (2011).

Using Feedback Theory to help Novice Legal Writers Develop Expertise, 86:2 U. Det.  Mercy L. Rev. 207 (2009).