Mark E Dorosin

College of Law, Room 183J
M,T,TH: 1100-1:00
W: 4:00-5:00
F: 10:00-12:00
or by appointment

Program Assistant is Monica Delacruz, Phone:  (407) 254-4035, monica.delacruz@famu.edu

LAW 6948 Economic Justice Clinic W 1:00-2:40
LAW 6947 Field Placement F 5:30-7:00

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Mark Dorosin is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of Legal Clinics and Field Placements at the College of Law. He has been a civil rights lawyer and litigator for 30 years, working to address the continuing impacts of racial segregation and exclusion in housing, employment discrimination, environmental justice, restrictions on political participation, and racial disparities in education. Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Dorosin served as the Managing Attorney of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law-North Carolina Regional Office, and before that as co-Director of the Julius L. Chambers Center for Civil Rights. He also led the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Law Center for Civil Rights for 10 years. Prof. Dorosin was elected to the Orange County (NC) Board of Commissioners three consecutive times, and served as Chairman from 2016-2018.

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• Civil Rights
  
• Community Organizing & Advocacy
  
• Video Games
  
• Movies
  

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• Associate Professor and Director of Legal Clinics and Field Placements, 2021-present.
  Florida A&M University College of Law, Orlando FL
  
  
• Managing Attorney, Regional Office, 2019-2021
  Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Co-Executive Director, 2018-2019
  Julius L. Chambers Center for Civil Rights, Chapel Hill NC
  
  
• Adjunct Professor of Law, 2009-2021
  University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Managing Attorney, 2008-2017
  Center for Civil Rights, UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Adjunct Professor, 2015
  Department of Geography. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  
  
• Senior Lecturing Fellow & Supervising Attorney, 2006-2008
  Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
  Community Enterprise Clinic, 7/06-4/08
  
  
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, 2003-2004
  University of North Carolina School of Law

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•  "Exceedingly Unpersuasive” – Discrimination, Transgender Students, and School Bathrooms, 11 Belmont Law Review (forthcoming May 2024)
  
  
• Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education: The Great Dissenter’s Great Betrayal, 62 Duquesne Law Review 2 (forthcoming June 2024)
  
  
• Panelist, “HBCUs and Cooperative Community Development—Healing & Repairing Black Communities,” National Conference on the Black Cooperative Agenda, Las Vegas, NV, June 2023.
  
  
• Panelist, “The Economic Injustice of Mass Incarceration,” Southern Regional Black Law Students Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, Feb. 2023.
  
  
• Goal 4: Quality Education, book chapter in Governing for Sustainability, John C. Dernbach & Scott E. Schang, eds. (Environmental Law Institute 2023).
  
  
• “Old Wine/New Bottles: State School District Takeovers and the Perpetuation of Education Injustices,” National Education Finance Academy Annual Conference, (keynote address), April 2022.
  
  
• Making America a Better Place for All: Sustainable Development Recommendations for the Biden Administration, John C. Dernbach & Scott E. Schang, eds. 51 Environmental Law Review 10310 (2021).
  
  
• The Battle of Brandy Creek: How One Black Community Fought Annexation, Tax Revaluation, and Displacement, 72 South Carolina Law Review 817 (2021).
  
  
• North Carolina’s H.B. 2: A Case Study in LGBTQ Rights, Preemption, and the (Un)Democratic Process, 122 West Virginia Law Review 783 (2020).
  
  
• Backlash Against Justice: The Ideological Attack on the UNC Center for Civil Rights
  (with Elizabeth Haddix), 40 N.C. Cent. L. Rev. 23 (2018).
  
  
• True Threats: Wanted Posters, Stalking and the First Amendment, book chapter in
  Transcending Borders- Abortion in the Past and Present, Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristen Burnett, Travis Hay, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)
  
  
• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Everett et al v. Pitt County Schools (Everett I and II)
  and the Ominous Future of Federal Court Desegregation Orders, 67 South Carolina
  Law Review 713 (2016).
  
  
• A Civil Rights Act for the 21st Century: The Privileges and Immunities Clause and a
  Constitutional Guarantee to Be Free from Discriminatory Impact, 6 Wake Forest
  Journal of Law & Policy 35 (2016)
  
  
• The Law’s Delay: Continuing the Struggle for School Diversity and Equity in Leandro’s Shadow, (with co-author Luke Largess), book chapter in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte, Roslyn Mickelson, Stephen Smith & Amy Nelson, eds. (Cambridge, Harvard Education Press 2015).
  
  
• A Too New South? North Carolina, Civil Rights, Coalition Building and the First
  African American Female Rabbi, paper presented at “Blacks, Jews and Social Justice in America,” Brandeis University, Boston MA, June 2014.
  
  
• More Than “Mellifluous but Hollow Rhetoric” Griggs v. Duke Power and the Disparate Impact Theory of Race Discrimination, presented at Documented Rights: A Symposium on the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, National Archives and Records Administration, Morrow, GA, June 13, 2009.

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• FAMU College of Law-BLSA, Percy R. Luney Spirit of Service Award, 2023
  
• FAMU College of Law, Professor of the Year, 2023
  
• FAMU College of Law, Department of the Year (Legal Clinic), 2023
  
• Telly Award, "Legal Connections-Legal Clinics", 2023
  
• Community Legal Services, Partner in Service Award (Legal Clinic) 2023
  
• UNC Law Pro Bono Program, Faculty Member of the Year, 2010

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•  LAW 6948 Economic Justice Clinic
  
• LAW 6497 Field Placement
  
• LAW 6933 Advanced Topics in Law
  

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