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John P. Joergensen
Reference and Circulation
Librarian. Mr. Joergensen
earned his B.A. degree at
Fordham University in 1983
and an M.A. degree in 1985.
He earned his J.D. at Temple
University in 1992, where
he was a member of the Moot
Court Board and an editor
for the Temple Political and
Civil Rights Law Review and
completed his M.S. (L.I.S.) in
1997 at Drexel University. Prior to coming to Rutgers, he
practiced appellate criminal law in Philadelphia.
Harriet N. Katz
Clinical Professor of Law and
Director of Externships.
Ms. Katz earned her B.A.
with honors at the University
of Michigan in 1969 and her
J.D. in 1972 at Yale Law
School. Before teaching,
Ms. Katz practiced law with
the Bucks County Legal Aid
Society, the Women’s Law
Project, the Public Interest
Law Center of Philadelphia,
and the Public Interest Advocacy division of the New
Jersey Public Advocate. While at the Women’s Law Project,
she was coauthor of Women’s Rights and the Law and The
Impact of the ERA on State Laws. Before coming to the law
school in 1993, Ms. Katz taught in the clinical programs of
the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1986 to
1993. Her recent publications are “Personal Journals in Law
School Externship Programs: Improving Pedagogy”
(Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law) and
“Using Faculty Tutorials to Foster Externship Students’
Critical Reflection” (Clinical Law Review).
Susan King
Reference and Interlibrary Loan
Librarian. Ms. King earned
her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College
in 1986, her J.D. at Temple
University in 1991, and her
M.L.S. at Rutgers’ School of
Communication, Information
and Library Studies in 1997.
Prior to coming to Rutgers,
she was a litigation associate
at Pepper, Hamilton, and
Scheetz in Philadelphia.
Eve Biskind Klothen
Director of Pro Bono Program
and Public Interest Activities.
Ms. Klothen earned her
undergraduate degree at the
University of Michigan in
1972 and her J.D. from the
Vanderbilt University School
of Law in 1975. She is a
member of the Georgia, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania Bars. After
graduation, Ms. Klothen
became a staff attorney and
subsequently managing attorney for Georgia Legal
Services. She then went to Washington, D.C., to become
a federal agency fraud litigator. Most recently she served
as the founding director of Philadelphia Volunteers for
the Indigent Program and director of the Philadelphia Bar
Foundation, both of which have been honored with
national and state awards. Other professional activities
include appointments to the Civil Justice Advisory
Committee for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania United
States District Court and membership, with a year as chair,
on the University of Pennsylvania Law School Public
Service Advisory Committee. Ms. Klothen, who has been a
consultant for the American Bar Association, has been recognized
for her work with the Pro Bono Coordinator of the
Year Award from the National Association of Pro Bono
Coordinators, the Equal Justice Award from Community
Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the Outstanding Service
Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Her publications
include “Building the Ethic of Public Service—
Penn Law School’s Mandatory Public Service Program
Completes Its Fifth Year” (The Philadelphia Lawyer, 1996);
“Why Pro Bono? Why Us? Why You?” (Younger Lawyers
Section, Pennsylvania Bar Association Newsletter, 1988);
“Nowhere Else To Turn,” a documentary on the need for
legal services in Pennsylvania, 1988; and “In the Child’s
Best Interest...a Guide to Custody Proceedings,” a documentary
for pro se custody litigants, 1992.
A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze
Distinguished Professor of Law.
Professor Kludze earned his
B.A. in 1963 and his LL.B. in
1965, both with the highest
honors in his class, at the
University of Ghana, where
he served as a senior lecturer
in law. In 1969, he earned his
Ph.D. in law at the University
of London. In 2002, he earned
the rare Higher Doctorate
degree of LL.D. from the
University of London for his scholarship. A fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, London, Professor Kludze has served
as a barrister-at-law and solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Ghana and has been a visiting professor at the Temple
University School of Law and with the Faculty of Law,
University of Ghana. He also has served as professor of law
and dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar,
Nigeria. His numerous publications include the books Ewe
Law of Property (published in London), Modern Principles of
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