Clinical Associate Professor of Law.
Professor Wallinger joined the Rutgers School of Law–Camden faculty in 2001, and since then has
taught legal writing to both first-year and upper-level law students. She also
has taught Workers' Compensation Law. Before joining the faculty, she taught legal writing at Temple University. Professor Wallinger earned a B.S. from Rutgers-Newark, cum laude,
and a J.D. and Estate Planning Certificate from Temple University School of
Law. Between 1989 and 2001, Professor
Wallinger practiced law, representing both employees and employers in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey workers' compensation and insurance defense
matters. She also practiced social security, estate planning, and elder law. Professor Wallinger's research focuses on applying self-determination theory,
an empirically-validated motivational psychology theory, to reimagine the law
school curriculum. Professor Wallinger's work concentrates on disseminating this
information, and on developing autonomy support techniques specifically
designed for the law school curriculum. In 2007, her research won a competitive
scholarship from the Association of Legal Writing Directors. On the national level, in 2007 she became a founding member of the board of
directors of the new American Association of Law Schools Balance in Legal
Education section. She also is the
national chair of the Idea Bank Committee for the Legal Writing
Institute, an organization whose members include law professors, judges, and practitioners.
Rutgers–Camden is now the home of this national teaching database.
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