Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (on leave to serve as New Jersey Public Advocate). (Contracts; Federal Courts; Mass Media Law;
Church-State Relations.) Dean Chen earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. with high
honors from Rutgers-Newark, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review and
the Saul Tischler Scholar. After graduation from law school, he clerked for the
Honorable Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before
joining the Rutgers faculty in 1987, Dean Chen was
associated with the New York law
firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
In addition to his teaching schedule, Dean Chen has provided
pro bono legal representation to a host of clients on a range of civil
rights and constitutional law cases. He has appeared before the New Jersey
Supreme Court and the Third Circuit in cases involving the constitutionality of
Megan's Law, secret detention of post-9/11 INS detainees, the New
Jersey kosher enforcement regulations, the New
Jersey hate crimes statute, and government religious
displays. Until becoming the Public Advocate, he served on the National
Executive Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Dean Chen served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee
on Professional Ethics from 1996-2006 (the last year as vice chair), served on
the New Jersey Law Journal editorial board from 1996-2006, chaired the
New Jersey State Bar Association Committee on Legal Education from 2003-2006,
and chaired the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee from 2002-2003. Outside
the law, Dean Chen served as vice president of the United States Rowing Association
and was appointed to the international rowing jury at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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