Joseph A. Rosenberg, Professor of Law, Co-Directed the Disability & Aging Justice and Elder Law Clinics at CUNY until June 2024. Among the projects he supervised is Decision Alternatives With(out) Guardianship NY (DAWGNY), https://dawgny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/, which includes community education materials and guided interviews focused on guardianship and less restrictive alternatives. Joe served as Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Programs from 2012-2016.
He currently teaches first year Lawyering Seminars, Technology & the Law, and Wills, Trusts, & Estates. Joe previously taught a Planning with Undocumented Parents elective, which grew out of an advocacy project in Spring 2017 (planningwithparents.commons.gc.cuny.edu). He supervised CUNY Law’s first group of Pro Bono Scholars in Spring 2016, where they did tenant advocacy work as a joint project with Queens Legal Services. Joe is a member of the CUNY-wide and law school Committees on Academic Technology, on which he currently serves as Chair.
Joe was a member of CUNY School of Law’s inaugural class in 1986. After graduation, he worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, specializing in government benefits, health law, and family law. Joe was co-author of the practice treatise NEW YORK ELDER LAW from 1999-2019. His law review articles have explored adult guardianships and the vulnerable elderly, using online instruction to teach lawyering skills, supplemental needs trusts for people with disabilities, and professional responsibility issues in elder law practice. Joe’s most recent article is Why Lawyers Should Write for the Digital Reader, 27 Legal Writing 111 (2023), https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/article/68013-why-lawyers-should-write-for-the-digital-reader.
