Leonard S. Rubinowitz

Professor of Law

Areas of Expertise

  • Law and Social Science
  • Public Housing
  • Local Government
  • Constitutional Law
  • Civil Rights
  • Criminal Law
  • Land Use Planning

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia (2000) (Co-authored by: James E. Rosenbaum).
  • The entry for Earl Burrus Dickerson, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 162 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009) (Co-authored by: Marcus Shepard).
  • Non-Violent Direct Action and the Legislative Process: The Chicago Freedom Movement and the Federal Fair Housing Act, 41 Indiana Law Review 663 (2008) (Co-authored by: Kathryn Shelton).
  • Race and Gender in the Law Review, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 27 (2006) (Co-authored by: Cynthia Grant Bowman & Dorothy Roberts).
  • Social Movements and Social-Change Litigation: Synergy in the Montgomery Bus Protest, 30 Law & Social Inquiry 663 (2005) (Co-authored by: Christopher Coleman & Laurence D. Nee).
  • A Missing Piece: Fair Housing and the Civil Rights Act, 48 Howard Law Journal 841 (2005) (Co-authored by: Ismail Alsheik).

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Education

  • BA with honors, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • LLB, Yale University

Prior Appointments

  • Harry B. Reese Teaching Professor, 1993-1994, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Research Faculty, 1980-1992, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research
  • Associate Professor of Law and Urban Affairs, 1975-1980, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Research Associate, 1972-1975, Center for Urban Affairs
  • Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator, 1968-1972, Attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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