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, where she is the Deputy Chief of the Motions and Appeals Unit.  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 and Third Circuit Court of Appeals 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 fourteenth 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 was honored to receive 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 on Criminal Law Ethics, "Black Letter Law Blast," Camden County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (2008 through 2013 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).