Jon Dubin

Jon C. Dubin is the associate dean for clinical education and Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar.  A clinical director and  tenured, full professor of law for over 20 years, he has published over a dozen law review articles and several coauthored books, and won national awards for his scholarship, public interest lawyering, and contributions to clinical legal education.

Professor Dubin received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from New York University. 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 Rutgers-Newark law faculty 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.

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; the 2010 Oliver Randolph Award from the Garden State Bar Association for contributions to civil rights; the 2014 Eileen P. Sweeney Award from the National Organization of Social Security Claimant's Representatives for outstanding service to improve the quality and availability of advocacy for social security claimants and to improve the social security adjudicative process; and the 2014 Clinical Legal Education Association's Award for outstanding contributions and accomplishments on behalf of clinical legal education and clinical law teachers.

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, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and the San Antonio Fair Housing Council.