Jason Parkin

Jason Parkin is a Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Professor of Law at the City University of New York School of Law. He is the co-director of CUNY’s Economic Justice Project, which represents individuals and grassroots community organizations in both litigation and non-litigation matters related to a wide range of economic justice issues. His teaching and scholarship focus on poverty law, administrative law, public law remedies, and law and social change. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Before joining the CUNY faculty, Parkin was a Professor of Law at Pace Law School, where he was the founder and director of the Neighborhood Justice Clinic, and a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School. He 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 government benefits and services, with a focus on enforcing the rights of immigrants and low-wage workers. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.