Dean Nussbaumer is a professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the Associate Dean in charge of Cooley’s Auburn Hills branch campus. He is a 1976 honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Before joining the Thomas Cooley faculty in 1984, he served as a law clerk to former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary S. Coleman, and as an assistant public defender for the State Appellate Defender Office. While at the Appellate Defender Office, he successfully argued cases before the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, the Sixth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Since then he has served as Co-Reporter for the first edition of the Sixth Circuit Pattern Federal Criminal Jury Instructions, and he currently serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Michigan Appellate Defender Commission and as a Michigan Supreme Court appointee to the Michigan Criminal Procedure Rules Committee.
He has written extensively on the subject of misuse and over-reliance on the LSAT in law school admissions and accreditation practices, including Misuse of the Law School Admissions Test, Racial Discrimination, and the De Facto Quota System for Restricting African-American Access to the Legal Profession, 80 St. John’s Law Review 167 (Winter 2006), and The Disturbing Correlation Between ABA Accreditation Review and Declining African-American Law School Enrollment, 80 St. John’s Law Review 991 (Summer 2006).
He has presented his research findings on this subject at the National Bar Association’s 2006 and 2007 National Conventions, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2007 Legislative Conference, the American Constitution Society’s 2007 National Press Club briefing, and the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools.
At the National Bar Association’s 2007 National Convention, he received the NBA’s Presidential Award for outstanding service and dedication to the organization. In June 2008, the ABA Council of Legal Education Opportunity selected him for its Legacy Justice Academia Achievement Award for Commitment to Diversity in the Legal Profession.
He is currently a member of the ABA Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Legal Profession, the State Bar of Michigan’s Task Force on Diversity in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and the Eastern District of Michigan Federal Bar Association Diversity Committee. He is the Chair of the Oakland County Bar Association’s Diversity Committee and Co-Chair of the Eastern District of Michigan Federal Bar Association Pro Bono Committee.
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