Jason Parkin is a Professor of Law at the City University of New York School of Law. He co-directs the Economic Justice Project and teaches in the lawyering program.
Prior to joining the CUNY faculty, Professor Parkin was a Professor of Law at Pace Law School. He founded and directed Pace’s Neighborhood Justice Clinic, which represented individuals and grassroots organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to workers’ rights and other issues affecting low-income communities in Westchester County. While at Pace, he received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship. Professor Parkin has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School and Columbia Law School, and he was a Robert M. Cover Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
Professor Parkin is a former senior staff attorney in the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Special Litigation Unit, where he primarily litigated class actions challenging systemic violations of low-income New Yorkers’ rights to various government benefits and services, with a focus on enforcing the rights of immigrants and low-wage workers. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Judge Julio M. Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professor Parkin’s teaching and scholarship focus on poverty law, administrative law, access to justice, public law remedies, social justice lawyering, and law and social change.
