- Stuart L. Deutsch
Stuart L. Deutsch is currently the Dean and Professor of Law at
Rutgers School of Law - Newark . He has been dean of thelaw school since the summer of 1999. He earned hisJ.D. fromYale Law School in 1969, and hisLL.M. fromHarvard Law School in 1974, where he was aFellow in Law and the Humanities. He is a 1966 graduate of theUniversity of Michigan . 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 theChicago-Kent College of Law at theIllinois Institute of Technology , he also served as interim dean in 1996-1997, and as associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for interdisciplinary programs. 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 Environmental Law Review. He also has been a visiting faculty member at theUniversity of Illinois College of Law ; an associate professor at theUniversity of Santa Clara School of Law , where he began his teaching career; and practiced law inNew York City .Dean Deutsch is a member of several bar and national organization committees concerning the legal profession, ethics, diversity, and legal education. These include the New Jersey Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the
American Bar Association `s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Technology Committee, of which he is vice chair. He also has worked with the ABA's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental Law, advisory committees to reform the housing and eviction courts of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and advisory committees to theIllinois Attorney General and the Cook CountyState's Attorney . He also has been chair of the Environmental Law and Local Government Law Sections of the Association of American Law Schools.Dean Deutsch has served on the Board of Directors of the
Chicago Audubon Society ; as a hearing officer for theChicago Commission on Human Relations , where he presided over more than 20 cases and a dozen full hearings; as chair of the North Suburban Fair Housing Center; and as chair of the Interfaith Housing Development Corporation. He was apro bono attorney for the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, the umbrella fair housing organization in theChicago metropolitan area .ources
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