Key donors within Fox Rothschild partnered with clients to create an endowment through Rutgers University Foundation to honor our treasured friend and partner, Harry S. Jackson III, who tragically passed in an automobile accident on July 29, 2022, two days before his 34th birthday.
On September 21, 2023, a Rutgers Law Associates (RLA) fellow met a young boy at a ticket counter in Newark Liberty International Airport, handed his passport to United Airlines personnel, and secured his safe return to his father in Ireland. It was the final step in a case that began in April, when the US State Department first reached out to RLA regarding a dispute between an Irish national and his wife, a US citizen who brought their son to live stateside without his consent.
Emilio Gutierrez is an award-winning Mexican journalist, devoted father, University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellowship recipient, and National Press Club honoree. Thanks to the work of Rutgers Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), he is also a newly-minted US asylee, protected from ever being deported back to Mexico, where he was intimidated with beatings, home raids, and death threats as a result of his reporting on government and police corruption.
The New Jersey Innocence Project at Rutgers University (NJIP) has helped exonerate a Hudson County man who served 20 years for a crime he did not commit. Dion Miller, now age 54, was released from prison on July 27. He was represented by NJIP Director, Professor Laura Cohen, and Managing Attorney, Nyssa Taylor. Mr. Miller was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Romeo Cavero in 2007 and sentenced to a term of 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
Rutgers Law third-year student Starr Vega is the first recipient of the Daniel Anderl Memorial Scholarship. The $5,500 award is part of a larger endowment created in Anderl’s memory. The son of Hon. Esther Salas (RLAW ’94), an MSP Newark alumna, was murdered by a disgruntled attorney in 2020 at their home in North Brunswick. Anderl was 20 years old and planned for a career in law. His father, Mark, was shot and wounded in the attack.
Travel courses offered at Rutgers Law this semester culminated in immersive, educational trips during Spring Break. One course, "South African Constitutional Law," highlighted the similarities and differences between two legal systems, specifically in how they deal with health law and reproductive rights.