A central and unique feature of the curriculum is the lawyering program. The lawyering program is comprised of a series of courses, experiences within courses, and cocurricular activities that engages students in the intellectual, pragmatic, ethical, and personal issues that arise in the practice of law. In most of the program's activities, students simulate the role of lawyers and carry out activities such as litigating or counseling clients, under attorney supervision. Through the lawyering program, students: 1. acquire a basic grounding in lawyering skills, such as problem solving, drafting, counseling, and advocacy, and in professional values, such as reflectiveness and the need and capacity for self-learning; 2. achieve a perspective on legal doctrine through study and experience of the application of doctrine by lawyers and clients in various contexts; 3. learn doctrine and its application experientially, as well as didactically; and 4. integrate different bodies of doctrine; doctrine and skills; and doctrine, skills, and legal theory.

Rutgers Law – Camden requires each student to fulfill legal writing and skills requirements in upper level courses, as part of our commitment to preparing our students for legal practice.  Consistent with best practices in legal education, courses approved to give credit toward these requirements meet specific standards.  In each such course, students focus on improving writing and/or skills, and receive feedback on their indivdual assignments and performances.  The following links will take you to (1) a program presented on August 13, 2008 to adjuncts faculty about these curricular requirements (video) Click Here, and (2) a powerpoint presentation (pdf) which accompanied the program Click Here.

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