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  School of Law-Camden 2003-2005 Faculty, Staff, and Administration Russell M. Coombs  

Russell M. Coombs

Associate Professor of Law. Professor Coombs graduated in 1961 with great distinction at Stanford University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. cum laude in 1966 at Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He is admitted to the practice of law in Kansas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. He was an associate with Choate, Hall, and Stewart in Boston; an assistant attorney general of Massachusetts; deputy chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws; and chief counsel to the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. He conceived and drafted the federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980. He is a member of several American Bar Association committees that deal with the areas of family law and criminal law. He also is a past chairman of the Section on Family and Juvenile Law of the Association of American Law Schools. His publications include "Interstate Child Custody" (Minnesota Law Review), "Child Custody and Visitation by Non-parents Under the New UCCJEA" (Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers), and "Reforming New Jersey Evidence Law on Fresh Complaint of Rape" (Rutgers Law Journal).


 
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