Clinical Professor of
Law and Codirector of the Rutgers Law Domestic Violence Project.
Professor 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 School of Law–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, she 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. She joined the
Rutgers faculty in 1997. She is the founder of the Domestic Violence Clinic.
She is a board member and officer (president, 2008-10) of the Legal Writing
Institute, an organization of 2,100 professors, attorneys, and judges. She is
also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Legal
Writing Directors. Professor Robbins is also one of the co-organizers of international
conferences about legal storytelling. She publishes in the areas of legal
writing and domestic violence law. One of her articles appears on the website
of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She also authors a practice
treatise, New Jersey Domestic Violence
Practice and Procedure. Professor Robbins teaches first-year legal writing, upper-level
writing, and clinical courses.
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