Rate My Professor Justin Long

Justin R. Long is an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School, a position he has held since August 2010. He concurrently serves as Associate Director for Education Law and Policy at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights since August 2011, where he counsels students, plans programs, teaches at public events, and leads education-related activities. Prior to joining Wayne State, Long was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law from July 2008 to July 2010, teaching Civil Procedure, State Constitutionalism, Education Law, and seminars on issues in educational equity. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Assistant Solicitor General in the New York Office of the Attorney General from September 2006 to May 2008, clerked for Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt of the New York Court of Appeals from August 2004 to August 2006, and clerked for Judge Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from August 2003 to August 2004. Long earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in May 2003, where he served as Technology Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, was a finalist in the Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court Competition, co-chaired the Guild Food Stamp Clinic, and received the Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize for Best Constitutional Law Paper. He holds an A.B. magna cum laude in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard College in June 1999, where he chaired the Kirkland House HAND community service organization.

Professor Long studies state constitutionalism, public education law, urban law, and federalism. His publications include "State Court Protection of Individual Constitutional Rights: State Constitutional Structures Affect Access to Civil Justice," 70 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 937 (2018); "State Constitutions are Slippery: A Reply to Professor Marshfield," 51 New Eng. L. Rev. 533 (2017); "Workplace Injuries as a Constitutional Law Issue," 69 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 1265 (2017); "Guns, Gays, and Ganja," 69 Ark. L. Rev. 453 (2016); "Democratic Education and Local School Governance," 50 Willamette L. Rev. 401 (2014); "State Constitutional Prohibitions on Special Laws," 60 Clev. St. L. Rev. 719 (2012); and "Intermittent State Constitutionalism," 34 Pepperdine L. Rev. 41 (2006), among others. Long served as reporter for the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force, a citizens' commission reforming Michigan's supreme court justice selection process, from December 2010 to December 2011. He chairs the Keith Center Faculty Oversight Committee since January 2013, and has served on faculty appointments, public interest law fellowship, and student affairs committees. He regularly works with civil rights activists, advises the Youth Civil Rights Conference, and has presented or moderated panels on state constitutionalism, school-to-prison pipeline, educational equity, and judicial reform at symposia, public forums, and law schools.