Stuart L. Deutsch served as dean of Rutgers School of Law-Newark
from 1999 until July 2009, when he stepped down and was awarded the
title university professor. In 2012, he became 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 is a member of several committees concerning the
legal profession, ethics, diversity, and legal education, including the
New Jersey Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism; the New Jersey
Institute for Continuing Legal Education; and the American Bar
Association's (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar
Questionnaire Committee. He 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 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 Environment Law Review.
Professor Deutsch has also 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.
