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Maureen B. O’Boyle
Associate Director of
Admissions. Ms. O’Boyle
earned her B.A. cum laude
in 1976 at the University
of Scranton and worked for
Colonial Penn Insurance
Company in Philadelphia.
She completed her M.Ed.
in counseling at Lehigh
University in 1983 and was
a research associate for the
Center for Social Research.
Ms. O’Boyle began working in admissions at the law school
in 1986 as senior admissions officer and later as assistant
director. She is an associate member of the Northeast
Association of Pre-Law Advisers. From 1982 to 1985, she
worked at Montgomery County Community College in
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, as a placement counselor and also
provided career, academic, and admissions counseling
for evening students. Ms. O’Boyle spent the year prior to
coming to Rutgers as a personnel recruiter for the Institute
for Scientific Information in Philadelphia. She has been
associate director since July 1997.
Craig N. Oren
Professor of Law. Professor
Oren earned his A.B. and J.D.
degrees at the University of
California (Berkeley) in 1973
and 1976, respectively. While
in law school, he served as
a note and comment editor
of the California Law Review,
for which he authored both
a note and a comment, and
clerked for Justice Matthew
O. Tobriner of the California
Supreme Court. Following graduation, Professor Oren
was an associate with the Chicago firm of Schiff, Hardin &
Waite. He has been assistant counsel to the U.S. House
Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and a consultant
to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Professor Oren has served on National Academy of Sciences
committees on protecting visibility in national parks and
on evaluating techniques to assess the health risks from
hazardous air pollutants. Professor Oren is admitted to the
Bars in California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, and
New Jersey. Among his publications are “Prevention of
Significant Deterioration: Control-Compelling Versus Site-
Shifting” (Iowa Law Review) and “The Protection of
Parklands from Air Pollution: A Look at Current Policy”
(Harvard Environmental Law Review). He recently published
a series of articles analyzing the failed Employee Trip
Reduction Program under the Clean Air Act. Professor
Oren has been a visiting professor at the University of
California School of Law (Los Angeles) and at the
University of North Carolina School of Law.
Traci Overton
Clinical Attorney, Civil Practice
Clinic. Ms. Overton earned
her B.A. in 1983 at Wellesley
College and her J.D. at
Boalt Hall School of Law,
University of California
(Berkeley) in 1988. Upon
graduation, she joined
Greater Boston Legal Services
in Massachusetts as a housing
law attorney. She later
transferred to the family law
unit, where she represented victims of domestic violence in
a variety of family law matters. In addition, she was the
supervising attorney for the unit’s student work group. Ms.
Overton teaches and supervises case work in the Civil
Practice Clinics and also is the supervising attorney for the
Rutgers/LEAP Legal Project. The Rutgers/LEAP Legal
Project provides legal representation to parents of students
in the LEAP Academy Charter School. Ms. Overton is also
the codirector of the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program
at Rutgers’ School of Law–Camden. In the Marshall-
Brennan Fellowship Program, talented second- and thirdyear
law students teach a course on constitutional rights
and responsibilities to high school students. She is a member
of the Bars of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania.
Dennis M. Patterson
Distinguished Professor of Law.
Professor Patterson is a Phi
Beta Kappa graduate of the
State University of New York
(Buffalo), where he earned
his bachelor’s degree magna
cum laude in 1976, his master’s
degree in 1978, and both
his Ph.D. in philosophy and
J.D. degrees in 1980. He
writes in the fields of contracts,
commercial law, and
legal philosophy. Recently a visiting fellow at Princeton
University, Department of Politics (Madison Program),
Professor Patterson has been awarded senior research
grants from the Fulbright Commission, Humboldt Stiftung
Foundation, and the American Council of Learned
Societies. The author of numerous books and articles in
both commercial law and legal philosophy, Professor
Patterson has been a visiting professor at Humboldt
University (Berlin), University of Vienna, Georgetown
University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
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