With enormous gratitude for the wisdom, grace, and mission-centered leadership of our Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor Ann Cammett, and special thanks for her generosity in extending her term to lead us through our transition to the online delivery of our program, we are beyond pleased to announce that as of January 1, Professor Allie Robbins ’09 will be our new Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
We are grateful to the Search Committee (Professors Julie Goldscheid, Natalie Gomez-Velez, Sarah Valentine, and Ann Cammett) for their work leading to their unanimous recommendation of her to our Personnel and Budget Committee which unanimously recommended her for approval. We appreciate the University’s support through the approval of the Vacancy Review Board in permitting this appointment during a statewide hiring freeze.
Professor Robbins came to CUNY Law as a student, after working as the National Organizer and Development Coordinator for United Students Against Sweatshops. While here, she participated in the Economic Justice Project and the Elder Law Clinic. After graduating, she worked as the National Field Organizer and Assistant Counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union. She has published 5 law review articles in the field of labor and workers rights and writes frequently on the subjects of racial equity in legal education, academic support, and law school pedagogy, including the book Passing The Bar: A Quick Reference Guide for Today’s Law Student, as well as editing and writing The Activist Guide to Passing the Bar Blog.
Since coming back to the Law School, Professor Robbins has developed, worked extensively in, and directed all aspects of our academic support and bar support programs, served as the Director of Student Affairs and the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, and, as an Associate Professor, taught Core Doctrine and Torts. She has been the recipient of the Haywood Burns Fellowship on Civil Rights and Human Rights, the Davis-Putter Scholarship, the Charles H Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellowship, the CALI Fellowship on Law School and Bar Success Skills, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Multicultural Executive Leaders Fellowship.