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Allan R. Stein
Professor of Law. Professor
Stein earned his B.A. with
honors at Haverford College
in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978
at the New York University
School of Law, where he was
articles editor of the Annual
Survey of American Law and
a member of the Order of the
Coif. He is admitted to the Bar
in Pennsylvania. Professor
Stein was an associate in the
litigation department of the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper,
Hamilton. His publications include “Erie and Court Access”
(Yale Law Journal), “Styles of Argument and Interstate
Federalism in the Law of Personal Jurisdiction” (Texas Law
Review), and “Forum Non-Conveniens and the Redundancy of
Court Access Doctrine” (University of Pennsylvania Law
Review). He also is coauthor of a civil procedure casebook for
Aspen Publishing Company.
Beth Stephens
Associate Professor of Law.
Professor Stephens earned
her B.A. magna cum laude at
Harvard University in 1976
and her J.D. at the Boalt Hall
School of Law at the
University of California
(Berkeley) in 1980. She
clerked for two years for
Chief Justice Rose Bird of the
California Supreme Court,
then spent six years in
Nicaragua investigating issues of law reform and human
rights. As a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional
Rights in New York from 1990 to 1996, Professor Stephens
litigated international human rights cases in U.S. federal
court, representing victims of genocide, rape, and other torture,
and of war crimes. In 1995, she earned the Trial
Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public
Justice, in recognition of her work on these human rights
cases. She earned a MacArthur Foundation Research and
Writing Grant in 1995 and coauthored a book on this developing
line of litigation, International Human Rights Litigation
in U.S. Courts (Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1996). She
also taught an international human rights clinic at Yale Law
School from 1994 to 1996. Professor Stephens continues to
litigate pro bono international human rights cases. Her
publications include “Translating Filártiga: A Comparative
and International Law Analysis of Domestic Remedies for
International Human Rights Violations” (Yale Journal of
International Law), “The Amorality of Profit: Transnational
Corporations and Human Rights” (Berkeley Journal of
International Law), “Federalism and Foreign Affairs:
Congress’ Power to ‘Define and Punish...Offenses Against
the Law of Nations’” (William and Mary Law Review), and
“The Law of Our Land: Customary International Law
as Federal Law after Erie” (Fordham Law Review).
E. Hunter Taylor, Jr.
Professor of Law Emeritus.
Professor Taylor studied
at Union University before
enrolling in 1962 in the
Tulane University School of
Law, where he was managing
editor of the law review,
a member of the Order of
the Coif, and recipient of
the George Dewey Nelson
Memorial Award for the
highest cumulative average
in the common law curriculum.
He earned his LL.B. in 1965. In 1969, he earned his
LL.M. at Columbia University School of Law, where he was
a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Professor Taylor taught at
the University of Georgia Law School and is a member of
the Bars in New Jersey and Tennessee. His many articles
include “Uniformity of Commercial Law and State-by-State
Enactment: A Confluence of Contradictions” (Hastings
Law Journal) and “UCC 2-207: An Integration of Legal
Abstractions and Transactional Reality” (University of
Cincinnati Law Review). Professor Taylor retired from his
faculty position in 1992 to enter the private practice of law.
He teaches part time at the School of Law–Camden.
Gwen Tolbert
Program Administrator of
Career Services. Ms. Tolbert
earned her B.A. in 1995 and
her M.A. in 2002 at the
University of Pennsylvania.
She worked for the University
of Pennsylvania for more
than 10 years, managing programs
in both Wharton and
the Medical Center and
serving as Minority Affairs
Officer. Ms. Tolbert is responsible
for counseling students,
managing student job fairs, and overseeing special projects,
as well as conducting résumé and interviewing workshops.
Carol Lynn Wallinger
Legal Research and Writing
faculty. Ms. Wallinger is a
1982 cum laude graduate of
Rutgers’ College of Nursing
and a 1989 graduate of
Temple University School of
Law. While in private
practice, she litigated New
Jersey and Pennsylvania
insurance law issues, focusing
primarily on worker’s
compensation law. She also is
a registered nurse, with over
10 years experience in the fields of critical care and hospice.
She joined the Rutgers legal research and writing faculty in
2001. Prior to coming to Rutgers, she taught legal research
and writing at Temple. Her scholarly interests include legal
writing, worker’s compensation law, and integrating legal
ethics into the first-year curriculum. She is admitted to
practice in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.