Andrew J. Rothman is the Assistant Dean for Academic Administration at Rutgers School of Law - Newark, a position he has held since 1997, and also serves as Associate Director of the Community Law Clinic and lecturer at Rutgers. A graduate of Rutgers Law School in 1990, he earned his B.A. from Yale in 1976, and also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His practice areas have included Corporate Organization (for profit and non-profit), and Tax Exempt Organizations; Employment Law; Commercial Litigation, Environmental, Condemnation and Land Use Law; in the Clinic his practice concentrates on corporate organization and tax exempt organizations.
In addition to his administrative and clinical responsibilities, Dean Rothman teaches New Jersey Practice, Legal Ethics, Advanced Contracts, Non-Profit Corporations and Appellate Advocacy. He is co-author of Handbook of Civil Practice in the Courts of New Jersey, George T. Bisel Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004, and Preparing Law School Graduates for Practice: A Blueprint for Professional Education Following the Medical Profession Example, 51 Rutgers Law Review 875 (1999). As a law student at Rutgers Dean Rothman was a Tischler Scholar, and Articles Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal. He was admitted to practice in 1990 in New Jersey and U.S. District Court of New Jersey, in 1991 in New York and U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, and in 1995 in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.