Jon C. Dubin is the associate dean for clinical education and Alfred C.
Clapp Public Service Scholar. A clinical director and tenured, full professor of law for over 20 years, he has published over a dozen
law review articles and several coauthored books, and won national
awards for his scholarship, public interest lawyering, and contributions
to clinical legal education.
Professor Dubin received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D.
from New York University. He has served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge John L.
Kane Jr.; assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc.; director of litigation for the Harlem Neighborhood Office of
the Legal Aid Society, Civil Division; and the Marvin M. Karpatkin
Fellow on the American Civil Liberties Union's national staff.
Immediately prior to joining the Rutgers-Newark law faculty in 1999, he
was a professor of law and director of clinical programs at St. Mary's
Law School, where he received the faculty award for teaching excellence.
Professor Dubin received the 2003 Haywood Burns/Shanara Gilbert Award
from the Northeast Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship
Conference for scholarship that advances the position of people of
color; the 2007 Stanley Van Ness Leadership Award in Public Interest Law
from the New Jersey Public Interest Center/New Jersey Appleseed for
career contributions in public interest law; the 2010 Oliver Randolph
Award from the Garden State Bar Association for contributions to civil
rights; the 2014 Eileen P. Sweeney Award from the National Organization
of Social Security Claimant's Representatives for outstanding service to
improve the quality and availability of advocacy for social security
claimants and to improve the social security adjudicative process; and
the 2014 Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for outstanding
contributions and accomplishments on behalf of clinical legal education
and clinical law teachers.
He has been chair of the AALS Poverty Law Section and a board member
of the Clinical Law Review, Clinical Legal Education Association,
National Center on Law and Economic Justice, New Jersey Institute for
Social Justice, and the San Antonio Fair Housing Council.
