Stuart L. Deutsch served as dean of Rutgers School of Law-Newark from
July 1999 until July 2009, when he stepped down and was awarded the
title University Professor. In 2014, he was named acting senior associate dean, which he held until June 30, 2016, and Willard Heckel
Scholar. As acting senior associate dean, he was involved directly with
admissions, financial aid, academic support, career services, the
minority student program, pro bono and public interest programs, and
student services overall. From 2012-2016, he also was director of global
and international programs for the law school.
In this position, he is working to develop a range of international
and comparative law courses in the academic curriculum; study-abroad,
pro bono, and professional work opportunities for students in foreign
countries; international exchange and research opportunities for
faculty; interdisciplinary study opportunities with other graduate units
of the university; and a flow of international speakers and guests at
the law school.
He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1969 and his LL.M. from
Harvard Law School in 1974, where he was a fellow in law and the humanities. He is a 1966 graduate of the University of Michigan.
Professor Deutsch has been deeply involved with issues relating to
the legal profession, ethics, diversity, and legal education, including
membership on the New Jersey Supreme Court's Commission on
Professionalism; the Board of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing
Legal Education; and the American Bar Association's Section of Legal
Education and Admissions to the Bar Questionnaire Committee. He also has
worked with the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the
Bar Technology Committee; the ABA's Central and Eastern European Law
Initiative; the Association of American Law Schools' Membership
Committee; the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental
Law; and advisory committees to reform the housing and eviction courts.
He also has been chair of the Environmental Law and Local Government Law
Sections of the Association of American Law Schools.
Professor Deutsch has served on the board of directors of several
environmental organizations, as a hearing officer for the Chicago
Commission on Human Relations, and as chair of fair housing and housing
development organizations. He was a pro bono attorney for the Leadership
Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, the umbrella fair housing
organization in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Formerly a professor of law, codirector of the program in environmental and energy law, and founding director of the Institute for
Science, Law, and Technology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the
Illinois Institute of Technology, he also served as interim dean in
1996-97, and as associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean
for interdisciplinary programs. Professor Deutsch's expertise is in the
fields of property, environmental law, and urban development.
He is the author of Deutsch's Illinois Environmental Laws Annotated and for 18 years was coeditor of Land Use and Environment Law Review.
Professor Deutsch also has been a visiting faculty member at the
University of Illinois College of Law; an associate professor at the
University of Santa Clara School of Law, where he began his teaching
career; and an associate with a law firm in New York City.
