The People's Electric Law School Women's Fund is an endowed scholarship at Rutgers University School of Law - Newark meant to keep the ideals and values of the People's Electric Law School alive among the lawyers of tomorrow.
If you would like to support the fund, please see the Giving section.
By the late 1960s, Rutgers School of Law–Newark had received the moniker "The People's Electric Law School." Its faculty included such activists as Arthur Kinoy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
— WIKIPEDIA
Background
"Rutgers-Newark Law School was the most innovative, exciting, and effective law school in the 1960's and 1970's. Civil rights and liberties, 'poverty law', women's rights, employment discrimination, open housing, and public education were the foci of legal education at Rutgers - Which is the State University of New Jersey. In those two decades Rutgers-Newark - which we affectionately called People's Electric - developed a model of engaged legal education that was and is unique.
No other law school of its era - and perhaps since - to my knowledge has been so thoroughly characterized by a broad progressive social agenda. Affirmative action, racial justice, women’s rights, public education, open housing, and civil liberties were the focus of the frequently landmark litigation which originated or was substantially aided by students and faculty from Rutgers Newark."
— GEORGE CONK, Rutgers University School of Law - Newark '74
About The Scholarship Fund
The fund was originally started by Frederic Halper in memoriam of Louise Halper (People's Electric Law School '73). Currently we are soliciting donations from alumni and supporters of the progressive agenda that the People's Electric Law School represents.
The scholarship is awarded to a female student whose activities have contributed to the progress of women and to the ideals of Rutgers Law School, also known as the People's Electric Law School, notably sexual and racial equality and use of law as a positive instrument for social change.
Get Involved
If you would like to support the fund, please see the giving section below and in the menu above.
Equally this site is meant to be a place to collect photos, reminiscences, articles, news, etc. about the People's Electric Law School and all of those involved throughout the years. Please do share with us so we can continue to make this site a reflection of the rich tapestry of experiences during that time.