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Robert L. Jones, Jr.

Director, Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law

Office: 725 Howard Street
South Bend, IN 46617
Telephone: 574.631.7795
Fax: 574.631.6725
Email: Robert.L.Jones.220@nd.edu

Robert L. Jones Jr. is the Director of the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1980 with a B.A., summa cum laude, in the Program of Liberal Studies and French, and earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1984. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and, while in law school, served as managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and as chair of Students for Public Interest Law. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for Honorable Milton Shadur on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

From 1985 to 2002, he worked as Staff Counsel and Transportation Project Director of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a Chicago-based public interest law and policy center, (BPI) founded in 1969. There, he engaged in litigation, regulatory advocacy and policy analysis on issues relating principally to the environment, fair housing and public-utilities regulation. He also served as a lecturer at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law from 1985 to 1999.

Professor Jones teaches and supervises students in a general civil practice at the Legal Aid Clinic. He also coordinates other experiential learning programs including the Asylum Externship, student pro bono initiatives, and the GALILEE Program, an immersion experience through which law students learn about legal problems of the urban poor. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Schools. His scholarly interests include legal ethics and clinical education.

In the News

LAW75721, Legal Aid I & Ethics

LAW75723, Legal Aid II

LAW75700, GALILEE (resources for student leaders)

LAW75730, Asylum Law Externship

LAW75800, Appalachia Externship

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Legal ethics & professional responsibility
  • Landlord-tenant
  • Social Security disability