Chancellor and Professor of Law. Respected nationally as a constitutional
scholar and a leader in higher education, Phoebe A. Haddon became chancellor of
Rutgers University–Camden on July 1, 2014. As chancellor, Haddon has direct responsibility for the daily administration of
a campus that enrolls nearly 6,600 students in 39 undergraduate programs and 28
graduate programs at the master's and doctoral levels. The southernmost of
three regional campuses that comprise Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, Rutgers–Camden is located across 40 acres in the Camden Waterfront
District, in the very heart of the metro Philadelphia region.
Prior to joining the Rutgers–Camden community, Haddon served as dean of the
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, which benefited from
the new, transformative academic resources and intellectual vitality that
occurred under her leadership. In 2011, the school received a $30 million
commitment from the W.P. Carey Foundation, the largest gift ever received by
the university and its law school.
In 2012 and 2013, Haddon was honored by the National Jurist as one of
the "25 Most Influential People in Legal Education." In 2012, the Daily
Record of Baltimore named her one of the "Top 100 Women" in Maryland; in
2010, the newspaper named her as one of the year's most Influential
Marylanders. In 2011, she received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of
American Law Teachers (SALT).
Prior to joining UM Carey Law, Haddon served for more than 25 years as a
distinguished faculty member at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. An
accomplished scholar on constitutional law and tort law, she is the coauthor
of two casebooks in those fields and has written numerous scholarly articles on
equal protection, jury participation, academic freedom, and diversity. During her years at Temple, she fought racial and gender bias on the
Pennsylvania bench and bar, serving on several state and city bodies, including
the City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics. Previously she practiced at Wilmer
Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and clerked for the Honorable
Joseph F. Weis Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Haddon earned an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1985 and a juris doctor, cum
laude, from Duquesne University School of Law, where she was
editor-in-chief of the Duquesne Law Review, in 1977. She received a
bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1972 and served as vice chair of the
Smith College Board of Trustees until 2009.
