Dean and Professor of Law. (Property; Environmental Law.) Dean
Stuart L. Deutsch has been dean of the law school since the summer of
1999. He earned 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.
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 1996-1997,
and as associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for
interdisciplinary programs. Deutsch`s expertise is in the fields of
environmental law, land use, and urban development. He is the author of
Deutsch`s Illinois Environmental Laws Annotated, and for 18 years was coeditor of Land Use and Environmental Law Review. He
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 practiced law in
New York City.
Dean Deutsch is a member of several bar and
national organization committees concerning the legal profession,
ethics, diversity, and legal education. These include the New Jersey
Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, the New Jersey Institute
for Continuing Legal Education, and the American Bar Association`s
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Technology
Committee, of which he is vice chair. He also has worked with the ABA`s
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the World Conservation
Union`s Commission on Environmental Law, advisory committees to reform
the housing and eviction courts of the Circuit Court of Cook County,
and advisory committees to the Illinois Attorney General and the Cook
County State`s Attorney. He also has been chair of the Environmental
Law and Local Government Law Sections of the Association of American
Law Schools.
Dean Deutsch has served on the Board of Directors
of the Chicago Audubon Society; as a hearing officer for the Chicago
Commission on Human Relations, where he presided over more than 20
cases and a dozen full hearings; as chair of the North Suburban Fair
Housing Center; and as chair of the Interfaith Housing Development
Corporation. He was a pro bono attorney for the Leadership Council for
Metropolitan Open Communities, the umbrella fair housing organization
in the Chicago metropolitan area.
