Assistant Dean and Director for the Minority Student Program and
Externships. Dean Padilla earned a B.A. in public policy and American
institutions and a B.A. in economics from Brown University in 1992, and
a J.D. from Rutgers-Newark in 1995. At Rutgers, he served as vice
president of the Association of Latin American Law Students and an
articles editor of the Women`s Rights Law Reporter. Dean
Padilla began his career as a commercial litigator with the New Jersey
firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP. He later
joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant district counsel
for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, New York District. Dean
Padilla returned to Rutgers in 2001.
