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Clinical Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Robbins teaches courses in two different areas: legal writing and New Jersey domestic violence. She is particularly committed to developing upper-level legal writing opportunities and has created courses that give students the chance to grow as legal writers.
Nationally, she is the president of the Legal Writing Institute, an international organization whose 2,100 members include professors, judges, and practitioners. Professor Robbins has served on the LWI Board of Directors since 2004. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, an advisor to the SSRN legal writing specialty journal, and one of the organizers of the international conference series "Applied Legal Storytelling." She is the recipient of national scholarship and teaching grants, and she has received law school and campus-wide teaching awards.
In 2002, Professor Robbins founded the Domestic Violence Clinic at the law school. She has supervised or co-supervised the pro bono Domestic Violence Project since 2000 and co-authors and updates a New Jersey practice treaty on domestic violence law. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1997, she practiced family law at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis and worked at the Haddonfield firm of Eisenberg, Gold & Cettei.
Locally, Professor Robbins is a member of the board of Sustainable Cherry Hill, an environmental group. She is also a Girl Scout troop leader.
Publications
Robbins, R.A., Harry Potter as Client in a Lawsuit, in The Law & Harry Potter 307(Jeffrey E. Thomas & Franklin G. Snyder, eds., Carolina Acad. Press 2010).
Robbins, R.A., Conserving the Canvas: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Legal Briefs by Re-Imagining Court Rules and Legal Briefs, 7 J. ALWD ___ (forthcoming 2010).
DiCamillo, J.S.C., Robbins, Abatemarco, New Jersey Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure 3d ed., (N.J. Inst. of CLE 2009).
Robbins, R.A., An Introduction to Applied Storytelling, 14 J. Legal Writing 3 (2008)(symposium).
Robbins, R.A., The President's Column, 23 No. 3 The Second Draft 3 (2008) available at http://www.lwionline.org/uploads/FileUpload/Second_Draft_Fall_2008.pdf
Robbins, R.A., Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers and Merlin: Telling the Client's Story Using the Characters and Paradigm of the Archetypal Hero's Journey, 29 No. 4 Seattle L. Rev. 767 (Summer 2006)(lead article).
Robbins R.A., Painting with Print: Incorporating concepts of typographic and layout design into the text of legal writing documents 2 J. ALWD 108 (2004); reproduced on the website of the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
DiCamillo, Angelo, J.S.C., Robbins, R.A., Abatemarco, M.M., New Jersey Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure 2d ed., (N.J. Inst. of CLE 2005).
Robbins, R.A. The Next Step #1 Starting a Dialogue About Upper Level Writing (regular column about upper level writing), 17 No. 2 The Second Draft, the Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute, 13 (July 2003).
King, S. A. and Robbins R.A., Creating New Learning Experiences Through Collaborations Between Law Librarians and Legal Writing Faculty, 11 No. 3 Perspectives 110 (Spring 2003).
DiCamillo, Angelo, J.S.C., Robbins, R.A., Abatemarco, M.M., New Jersey Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure, (N.J. Inst. of CLE 2002).
Foley, B.J., Robbins, R.A., Fiction 101: A Primer for Lawyers On How To Use Fiction Writing Techniques To Write Persuasive Facts Sections, 32, No. 2, Rutgers L.J. 459 (Winter, 2001).
*Reprinted in 51 No. 1 Defense L.J. 149 (Spring 2002) and as How To Use Fiction Writing Techniques to Write Persuasive Facts Sections, Natl. Inst. Trial Advoc. LexisONE Articles, http://www.nita.org/lexisarticles.htm#NEWJULY