Jason Parkin is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of the Community Lawyering Clinic, which represents individuals and grassroots organizations, coalitions, and campaigns that are banding together to build power and establish laws and policies that promote economic justice in Connecticut.
Before joining the Yale Law School faculty, Parkin was a professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law. At CUNY, he co-directed the Economic Justice Project, a clinic that represented individuals and grassroots community organizations on a wide range of economic justice matters. Previously, he was a professor of law at Pace Law School, where he was the founder and director of the Neighborhood Justice Clinic and received the Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Parkin also served as a visiting clinical professor at Columbia and Yale, and the Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale.
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 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Parkin’s teaching and scholarship focus on poverty law, administrative law, access to justice, public law remedies, and social justice lawyering.
