John P. Joergensen is the senior associate dean for information services, a professor of law, and an award-winning director of the Law
Library that serves both Rutgers Law School locations. He joined Rutgers Law in
1996 and organized the Courtweb Project, which provides free internet
access to the full text of the decisions of many of the state's
courts.
Professor Joergensen received a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Fordham
University, an M.S. in library information science from Drexel
University, and a J.D. from Temple University Law School where he was
symposium editor of the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review.
Professor Joergensen taught courses in philosophy and ethics as an
adjunct instructor at Fordham University. After receiving his J.D. he
joined a Philadelphia law firm where he focused his practice on state
and federal appellate criminal cases and litigated before the
Pennsylvania Supreme and Superior Courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit. In 1996 Professor Joergensen became a librarian
at Rutgers School of Law-Camden where he oversaw the reference, digital
services, and circulation areas and taught Advanced Legal Research.
During his tenure at Rutgers Law, Professor Joergensen organized
the New Jersey Courtweb Project, which provides free internet access to
the full text of the decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court and
appellate courts, Tax Court, administrative law decisions, U.S. District
Court of the District of New Jersey decisions, and the New Jersey
Supreme Court's Ethics Committee opinions. His work also included
digitizing U.S. congressional documents, the deliberations of state
Constitutional Conventions, and other historical records. In 2007 he
received the Public Access to Government Information Award from the
American Association of Law Libraries and in 2011 was named to the
Fastcase 50 as one of the country's "most interesting and provocative
leaders in the combined fields of law, scholarship, and technology."