Read all about the Rutgers' trip to Oxford University

From left, students Sandeep Chhabra, Ben West, Denise Letrendre, Associate Professor Lisa L. Miller, student Sujata Rajpurohit, and Rutgers alumnus John W. Adams.

John W. Adams worked for two decades as president of an investment firm, but always harbored scholarly interests beyond finance.

One subject that he finds particularly compelling is the role of law in society. “Law has really been my window to look at the world and to understand how it works,” the 1965 Rutgers College graduate said.

Now Adams, having left finance for academia, is providing a group of Rutgers undergraduates with an unusual opportunity to share the view from that window.

On June 28, six students majoring in political science flew to England for an intensive, two-week fellowship at the University of Oxford that will bring them face to face with leading scholars and law faculty while exposing them to topics ranging from the workings of the British legal system, to the role of international courts, to crime and criminology.

The fellowship is being underwritten by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an Oxford-affiliated group founded by Adams after he left the investment firm in 2004.

Read all about the trip in a recent Rutgers Focus article.

Check back with this blog for more updates.

A trip to the pool allows student to explore Oxford

From Denise Letendre, a political science major and upcoming Rutgers senior:

Yesterday I went on an interesting adventure through Oxford. I am on the varsity swimming team at Rutgers and need to stay in shape while I am here so I contacted the Oxford swim team to find out about pool availibility. I was told I could get a 10 day swim pass so yesterday I set off after class to find the pool. It ended up being about a 20 minute walk.

Like Rutgers, the city of Oxford is intermixed with the different colleges that make up the university so along with seeing other colleges on my walk I also got to see the town of Oxford. I noticed a lot of bikes zooming by me. Most people on bikes were dressed in work attire so I'm assuming they ride their bikes to work and back. After walking down the wrong path a few times, I eventually found the pool. After a refreshing but a bit confusing swim (I had to swim clockwise in my lane, while in the U.S. we swim counterclockwise or as they say here anticlockwise), I changed and set out on my way back home.

Unfortunately, as I got to the door, I noticed the torrential downpour that was occurring outside. Even though it was sunny, the rain was really coming down and since I didn't have an umbrella, I got a snack and waited it out. I finally got fed up and started walking back in the rain. Luckily, it stopped moments after I stepped out! The rest of the walk was rather muggy but I'll take that any day over rain!