Associate dean for clinical education, professor of law, and Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar (Civil Justice Clinic; administrative law; civil rights law; poverty law)
Professor Dubin received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his
J.D. from N.Y.U. 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 law faculty of Rutgers-Newark 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.
In 2002, the National Equal Justice Library selected one of his
articles, "Torquemada Meets Kafka: The Misapplication of the Issue
Exhaustion Doctrine to Inquisitorial Administrative Proceedings" (Columbia Law Review),
for the Edgar and Jean Cahn Award as one of the 20th century's most
outstanding articles about equal justice for lower-income persons. The
U.S. Supreme Court twice cited this article in Sims v. Apfel
(2000), a case in which Professor Dubin served as cocounsel, principal
drafter of the petitioner's main brief, and principal strategist of the
petitioner's position in this successful appeal. An earlier article,
"From Junkyards to Gentrification: Explicating a Right to Protective
Zoning in Low-Income Communities of Color" (Minnesota Law Review), was peer-reviewed and selected for inclusion in an anthology issue of Clark-Boardman's Land Use and Environment Law Review as one of the five best land-use articles that year.
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; and the 2010 Oliver Randolph Award from the Garden State Bar Association for contributions to civil rights. 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, and the New
Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
