“After transitioning from Ramapo to the unique intellectual experience of law school, I can attest to the fact that Ramapo prepares students well for graduate and professional education. Ramapo provides all the tools necessary for its graduates to excel in top-ranked programs across the country.

The most significant resources on campus are your professors. More than any individual class or skill I learned in my time at Ramapo, establishing connections with faculty opened doors that would otherwise have remained closed. Every member of the faculty is first and foremost a teacher and mentor. If you engage with them, they will do everything in their power to help you succeed. I would not be where I am today without the encouragement and help of Ramapo’s outstanding faculty. Now that I’ve graduated, I am happy to count those same mentors among my acquaintances and friends.” – Jonathan Mangel ’15 graduated with bachelor degrees in Political Science and Law and Society. He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2018. While at Ramapo, Jonathan was recognized as an Outstanding Student in Law and Society in 2015, received the Faculty-Student Research Award for HGS in 2014 and 2015, and was the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of The Ramapo Journal of Law and Society from 2014-2015. Jonathan presented his senior Honors Thesis “Putting the Problem in the Crosshairs: Partisan Perceptions of the Causes of Gun Violence” at the Northeast Political Science Association Conference in 2014. His Law and Society thesis, titled “Growing Up Corporate: The Broadening Scope of Corporate Rights,” was published in the Ramapo Journal of Law and Society. He also studied abroad during his 2014 Spring Break with the China Immersion Experience. After his first year of law school, Jonathan completed a summer internship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. He begins work at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York later this year.

Program:
China Immersion Experience 2014: Beijing and Shanghai, Spring Break 2014