Professor Emeritus Robert E. Rains

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

July 2013 - present: Professor Emeritus, The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law.

August 1983 - June 2013:  Professor, The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law*, Carlisle, PA.  Asst. Prof. 1983-87; Assoc. Prof. 1987-89.  Director, Community Law Clinic (formerly the Family Law and Disability Law Clinics).  

Courses:  Family Law; Comparative and International Family Law; Juvenile Law; Law and Individuals with Disabilities.  Past courses taught:  Administrative Law; Education Law; Equal Protection and Civil Rights; Appellate Advocacy; Legislation; Legal Methods, Research and Writing.

Fall 1980 - Spring 1983:  Adjunct Professor, The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA.  Education Law Seminar; Law and the Handicapped Seminar; Temporary Supervisor, Legal Assistance Program for the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, PA.

October 1979 - August 1983:  Partner, law firm of Rains & Jacobsen, Harrisburg, PA.

General civil practice emphasizing human services, governmental benefits and civil rights.

August 1974 - October 1979:  Deputy Attorney General, Pennsylvania Department of Justice, Harrisburg, PA.

EDUCATION:

  Harvard Law School, J.D. 1974.

  Michigan State University, B.A. Political Science 1970.

BAR MEMBERSHIPS:

  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

  U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

  U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  U.S. Supreme Court