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.

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