Center for Race and Ethnicity
at Rutgers University Jon Dubin
Professor of Law, Rutgers-Newark
973-353-3186
Professor Dubin received his A.B. from Dartmouth and his J.D. from New York University. He has served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge John L. Kane, Jr.; the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow on the American Civil Liberties Union's national staff; staff attorney and director of litigation for the Harlem Neighborhood Office of the Legal Aid Society of New York City, Civil Division; and assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Immediately prior to joining the law faculty of Rutgers-Newark in 1999, he was a Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at St. Mary's School of Law, where he received the faculty award for teaching excellence.
In 2002, the National Equal Justice Library selected his article "Torquemada Meets Kafka: The Misapplication of the Issue Exhaustion Doctrine to Inquisitorial Administrative Proceedings" (Columbia Law Review 1997) for the Edgar and Jean Cahn Award as one of the 20th century's outstanding articles about equal justice for lower income persons. The U.S. Supreme Court twice cited this article in Sims v. Apfel (2000) − a case in which Professor Dubin served as co-counsel, principal drafter of the petitioner's main brief, and principal strategist of the petitioner's position in this successful appeal. An earlier article, "From Junkyards to Gentrification: Explicating A Right to Protective Zoning in Low-Income Communities of Color" (Minnesota Law Review 1993), was peer reviewed and selected for inclusion in the 1994 anthology issue of Clark-Boardman's Land Use and Environment Law Review as one of the five best land use articles of 1993. Professor Dubin received the 2003 Haywood Burns/Shanara Gilbert Award from the Northeast Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. He has been chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools' Poverty Law Section; a board member of the Clinical Legal Education Association, Welfare Law Center, and New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; and as a member of the board of editors of the Clinical Law Review.
