Clinical Associate Professor of Law and a Supervising Attorney of the Rutgers Law Domestic
Violence Project. Ms. Robbins earned her undergraduate degree in
biology in 1988 at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her law
degree in 1991 with high honors at Rutgers-Camden, where she was a
member of the Rutgers Law Journal, the first recipient of
the Deborah Michael Richards Graduation Award for Family Law, a
recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Procedure,
and a Dean's Scholar. After law school, Ms. Robbins clerked for the
Honorable Michael Patrick King, a presiding judge of the New
Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. She later practiced family
law in Pennsylvania and general practice in New Jersey. After teaching
as an adjunct, she joined the Legal Research and Writing Faculty in
1997 and moved to the clinical program department in 2000, where she
started the Domestic Violence Clinic. One of Professor Robbins' articles
appears on the web site of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals. She also authored a practice treatise, New Jersey Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure,
and she has appeared on Legal Line, a cable-televised program designed
for nonlawyers to learn about law. She also continues to consult,
present, and publish in the area of legal writing and she serves on the
Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Legal Writing
Institute. She also serves as the chairperson of the Legal Writing
Institute's Committee on Upper Level Legal Writing.
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