Biography

Professor Lore is the founding co-director of the Children's Justice Clinic, the first Rutgers Law clinic to focus on children.  As part of the clinic, third-year law students receive academic credit for representing children in southern New Jersey facing juvenile delinquency matters. In addition to providing legal services, students also work with their clients to address the causes of delinquency problems in their home environment.

Professor Lore trains law students and attorneys throughout the region and country.  His trainings have included statewide trainings of public defenders in Florida, New Jersey, and New York and national trainings for both public interest attorneys and attorneys in private practice.  Professor Lore has been a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 2004 and has taught in a variety of programs including NITA's National Session.  He currently is a faculty member of the Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program at Emory Law School and has previously taught trial advocacy at Northwestern University School of Law.   Professor Lore also provides training to trial advocacy instructors.   

In 2011, Professor Lore created and now directs the Center for Public Interest Training at the Law School which provides free training for public interest lawyers.

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2006, Professor Lore served as the Acting Director of the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic at Villanova University School of Law.  He also has worked as a staff attorney and pro bono coordinator at the Bluhm Legal Clinic of Northwestern University School of Law where he managed the training and supervision of more than 200 Chicago area law firm attorneys who represented children in juvenile court.  Before pursuing a teaching career, he was as an assistant public defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, where he was a member of the felony trial unit, and an assistant public defender at the Cook County Public Defender's Office in Chicago.  Throughout his career he has litigated hundreds of trials and motions before a wide variety of courts and administrative agencies. 

Professor Lore serves on several committees and boards, including the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns. He is an expert on issues of children’s rights, juvenile law, and trial advocacy and has been a frequent contributor to various media outlets throughout the country.

Publications

Case File and Problems: Teaching Materials in Child Advocacy (Work in progress to be published by Lexis-Nexis and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy). Civil Consequences of Criminal Convictions, Manual for Defender Association of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Public Defender Offices, September 2011.  Prosecutorial Discretion in Transferring Children to Criminal Court:  Creating Unjust Outcomes(Work in Progress to be submitted 2011)

Strategies for Children’s Attorneys:  How to Handle Pre-Trial Self Incrimination Issues for Child Clients Undergoing Screening, Assessment, Evaluation and Treatment, 2009 National Association of Counsel for Children: Children’s Law Manual 227.  

Pre-Trial Self-Incrimination in Juvenile Court:  Why a Comprehensive Pre-trial Privilege is Needed to Protect Children and Enhance the Goal of Rehabilitation, 47 U. Louisville L. Rev 439 (Winter 2009).

Good (First) Step for Protecting Juveniles in the Juvenile Justice System: How New Jersey Provides Limited Pre-Trial Protection Against Self-Incrimination, 196 New Jersey Law Journal 458 (May 2009) (With John Bennett).

Shackling Children in Juvenile Court: The History, The Debate and Recent Trends, 12 U.C. Davis J. Juv. L. & Pol’y 453 (Summer 2008) (With Brian D. Gallagher).

Protecting Abused, Neglected and Abandoned Children:  A Proposal for Provisional Out-of-State Kinship Placements Pursuant to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, 40 U. Mich. L.J. Reform 57 (Fall 2006).