Dr. Jason Parkin

Biography

Jason Parkin is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he is the founder and director of the Community Lawyering Clinic. He represents individuals and grassroots organizations in building power and establishing laws and policies to promote economic justice in Connecticut. Prior to joining Yale Law School, Parkin was a professor at the City University of New York School of Law, co-directing the Economic Justice Project, which represented individuals and community organizations in a wide range of economic justice matters. He has previously held a professorship at Pace Law School, where he founded the Neighborhood Justice Clinic, and received the Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Parkin has also served as a visiting clinical professor at Columbia and Yale, as well as a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale. His experience includes working as a senior staff attorney at the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Special Litigation Unit, focusing on litigating class actions that challenge systemic violations of low-income New Yorkers’ rights to government benefits and services, particularly for immigrants and low-wage workers. Parkin's teaching and scholarship concentrate on poverty law, administrative law, access to justice, public law remedies, and social justice lawyering.

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