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 also serves as Associate Director for Education Law and Policy of 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. Long regularly works with civil rights activists in the community and served as reporter for the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force, a citizens' commission aimed at reforming Michigan's process for selecting supreme court justices. His academic background includes a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2003, where he was Technology Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, finalist in the Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court Competition, and recipient of the Fred G. Leebron Memorial Prize for Best Constitutional Law Paper. He earned an A.B. magna cum laude in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard College in 1999.

Prior to joining Wayne State, Long was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law from 2008 to 2010, teaching courses such as Civil Procedure, State Constitutionalism, and Education Law. His professional experience includes serving as Assistant Solicitor General in the New York Office of the Attorney General from 2006 to 2008, clerking for Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt of the New York Court of Appeals from 2004 to 2006, and clerking for Hon. Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2003 to 2004. Long's scholarship focuses on state constitutionalism, public education law, urban law, and federalism. He teaches State Constitutionalism, Civil Procedure, Law of the City: Detroit, and Teaching Law in High School. Selected 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).