Allie Robbins. J.D. Curriculum Vitae

Education

City University of School of Law, J.D.

The George Washington University B.A. International Affairs, magna cum laude Concentrations: International Development, Global Public Health, International Economics

Educational/Teaching Experience

CUNY School of Law, , NY – January 2021-present Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Coordinate the academic program at CUNY School of Law. Oversee the Registrar’s Office, Faculty Support Staff, Academic Skills and Bar Support Teams and Academic Dean’s Office. Work with students who fall below or close to the good academic standing marker.

Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) – June 2019-February 2020 Fellowship on Law School and Bar Success Skills: Drafted lessons for open use on CALI relating to essential law school academic skills such as IRAC format, self- assessment, making use of law school resources, language precision, and transfer of knowledge and skills.

CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, NY – July 2018-present Associate Professor of Law: Teach academic support and doctrinal courses including Mastery and Application of Core Legal Doctrine, Applied Legal Analysis, Comprehensive Skills Intensive, Pre-Law Orientation Seminar. Serve on faculty committees, including the Curriculum Committee, Academic Standing Committee, Student Learning Outcomes Committee, and Admissions Committee.

Director of Academic Skills – March 2018-Dec 2019 Coordinate academic support programs including pre-law Pipeline to Justice Program, 1L and 2L academic skills support for full-time and part-time students, and bar support programs.

CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, NY –June 2013-June 2018 Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs: Worked with the Associate Academic Dean and Academic Affairs Office staff to coordinate and enhance academic services. Assisted in developing and coordinating bar exam support programs, including teaching bar exam prep courses and managing a mentor program for all recent graduates. Worked with students on probation to develop individualized plans for success. Oversaw the academic support program, the academic advising process, and the online bookstore. Served on faculty committees, including the Curriculum Robbins – Curriculum Vitae 2

Committee, Academic Standing Committee, Student Learning Outcomes Committee, and Admissions Committee. Teach academic support and doctrinal courses including Mastery and Application of Core Legal Doctrine, Applied Legal Analysis, Comprehensive Skills Intensive, Pre-Law Orientation Seminar.

CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, NY – June 2012-June 2013 Director of Student Affairs/Co-Director of Bar Exam Support Programs: Coordinated bar exam support programs, including implementation of a new Summer Mentor Program with 15 mentors and over 100 students in the summer of 2012. Additionally, coordinated all student organization activities, including organization registration and student government elections, and oversaw the transition of bar support and student activities to the Long Island City building. Coordinated Professional Development Time for first year sessions. Worked with the Dean of Students to handle student issues such as medical withdrawals, disciplinary matters, and general student concerns.

CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY –January 2010-June 2012 Adjunct Professor: Co-coordinated bar exam support programs, including data collection following the release of exam results, interfacing with commercial bar corporations, working with professors to incorporate increased bar exam-type questions into their courses, and individualized support for students for both the February and July bar exams. Additionally, co-taught Applied Legal Analysis, a bar skills course for 125 third year students, which consisted of substantive and skill- based lectures, coordinating presentations by bar exam experts, and providing feedback on essay and multiple-choice questions each week. Served as an adjunct professor for the Irene Diamond Professional Skills Center assisting first-year students and providing individualized feedback on practice essay exams.

New York Law School, , NY –January 2012-May 2012 Adjunct Professor: Served as a grader for the Principles of Legal Analysis Class, an academic support class for underperforming first year students. Provided detailed individualized feedback to students on essays, multiple-choice questions, and issue spotting exercises.

CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY –June-July 2010 Non-Teaching Adjunct: Provided one-on-one bar exam support to students taking the July bar exam. Primarily provided assistance to those students who were graduates of the Pipeline to Justice Program for students from underrepresented communities.

CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY – 2007-2009 Graduate Fellow Teaching Assistant: Served as a teaching assistant for the Irene Diamond Professional Skills Center. Worked with first-year students one-on-one and with study groups in order to enhance study skills and prepare for exams. Served as a teaching assistant during the Summer Law Institute program for incoming law students during the summer of 2008. Coordinated the curriculum for the Third World Orientation Program, geared towards incoming students of color.

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College and Youth Academy –1999-2010 Counseling and Treating People of Colour Conference: An International Perspective Co-Director: Coordinated and manage four-day leadership academy for college-age students focusing on leadership and cross-cultural understanding through the conference’s six core topics of health, mental health, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and education.

Scholarship and Presentations

Editor and Writer of The Activist Guide to Passing the Bar Blog, https://passingthebar.blog/

Conference Presentation: Closing the Law School Gap: A Collaborative Effort to Address Educational Inequities Through Free Asynchronous Tools, The Transnational Conference on The Future of Legal Education, The Practice of Law, and The Judiciary, https://www.johnmarshall.edu/transnational-conference-on-the- future-of-legal-education-the-practice-of-law-and-the-judiciary/, February 9, 2021

Conference Presentation: Everything I Know About Teaching Was Reinforced by Auditing Remote Kindergarten, COVID Care Crisis Symposium, https://hls.indiana.edu/covid-symposium/, Jan 15, 2021.

Book Chapter: No That’s Mom, chapter in What’s In a Name? Perspectives from Nonbiological and Nongestational Queer Mothers, edited by Sherry Martin-Baron, Raechel Johns, and Emily Regan Wills, Demeter Press, September 2020

Connecting During COVID: Using Social Media to Reach Students During Physical Distancing, The Learning Curve, Summer 2020 Special Edition

Passing The Bar: A Quick Reference Guide for Today’s Law Student, E-Langdelll Press, June 2020, https://www.cali.org/books/passing-the-bar-guide.

The Case for Building a Better Bar Review, The Learning Curve, Spring 2020, available at: https://www.associationofacademicsupporteducators.org/learningcurve/why-we- need-a-better-bar-review.

Preventing Attrition: Critical Interventions to Close the Racial Gap in Not Transfer- Attrition, 26 Widener L. Rev. 143, Spring 2020.

Measuring Law Student Success from Admissions Through Bar Passage: More Data the Bench, Bar and Academy Need to Know, Andrea A. Curcio, Hong Jiang, Mary Lu Bilek, Jessica Gabel Cino, and Allie Robbins, ACCESS-LEX FUNDED RESEARCH, August 2019, https://arc.accesslex.org/grantee/41/

Flipping the Bar Prep Classroom, The Learning Curve, Spring 2019 Edition

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Outsourcing Beneficiaries: Contract and Tort Strategies for Improving Conditions in the Global Garment Industry, 80 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 369 Winter 2018

Being Nosey, The Learning Curve, Spring 2018 Edition, June 2018, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3238227.

Junior Faculty Scholarship Exchange Workshop, Presented Draft of Outsourcing Beneficiaries: Garment Workers as Third Party Beneficiaries After Doe v. Wal-Mart at faculty workshop at , March 2018.

Thinking Like a (Bar Exam) Grader, The Learning Curve, Winter 2017 Edition, February 2017, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3238222.

Conference Presentation: Breaking it Down: Practicing Issue Spotting and Rule Application on Bar Exam Essays, Association of Academic Support Educators Annual Conference, CUNY School of Law, May 2016.

Conference Presentation: Panel on Fashion and the Law, Research and Pedagogy Seminar: Fashion Studies and Material Culture, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2016

Toxic Sweatshops: Regulating the Import of Hazardous Electronics, 18 CUNY L. Rev. 2 (2015)

Conference Presentation: The Law School as a Classroom Legal Ed Conference, American University Washington College of Law, April 2014.

The Future of the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Providing Access to U.S. Courts For Garment Workers Worldwide. Labor & Employment Law Forum 3, no. 1 (2013): 120-151

Captive Audience Meetings: Employer Speech vs. Employee Choice, 36 OHIO N.U. L. REV 591 (2010).

Could Sourcing from Union Shops Be Against the Law? The Original Law Review, Sandstone Academic Press, Volume 5 Number 2, 2009.

Fellowships

Haywood Burns Fellowship on Civil Rights and Human Rights Recipient (Public Interest Fellowship), CUNY School of Law, 2006-2009

Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund Recipient, 2008-2009

Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest (LSPIN) Fellowship Grant Recipient, 2007

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W.K. Kellogg Foundation Multicultural Executive Leaders Fellowship Program, 2006-2007

Legal/Political Experience

National Treasury Employees Union, , NY – August 2009-December 2010 National Field Organizer/Assistant Counsel: Organized and provided legal representation for Transportation Security Officers, primarily at LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport. Provided assistance to organizers and attorneys at other airports in the areas of workplace injustice and discrimination.

District Office of State Senator Tom Duane, New York, NY – Summer 2008 Intern: Served as an intern for State Senator Tom Duane of the twenty-ninth State Senatorial District in Manhattan, New York. Assisted in constituent matters, organized financial literacy town hall meetings, conducted consultations with disability rights advocates on equal access survey, accompanied constituent to housing court and assisted with related matters.

Elder Law Clinic, CUNY School of Law – Fall 2008 Legal Intern: Served as court evaluator and represented petitioner in Article 81 guardianship proceedings.

Economic Justice Project, CUNY School of Law –Spring 2008 Legal Intern: Represented CUNY students who were recipients of public benefits. Worked with Welfare Rights Initiative of on High School Organizing Project.

McLaughlin and Stern, New York, NY – December 2007 Legal Intern: Logged and coordinated all discovery items received from municipal defendant in an employment discrimination case regarding racial and gender discrimination.

CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY – Summer 2007 Research Assistant: Conducted research for Professor Shirley Lung regarding legal education, specifically the combining of academic support with doctrine.

Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY – Summer 2007 Intern: Conducted legal research for the Center for Court Innovation on the predominant constitutional issues facing problem-solving courts. Worked with Family Treatment Courts, Drug Courts, and Mental Health Courts.

Labor Experience

United Students Against Sweatshops, Washington, DC – 2004-2006

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National Organizer for Development: Carried out accounting and fundraising program. Supported domestic and international programs and campaigns. Trained high school and college students in worker rights organizing. Built and maintained relationships with allied organizations. Coordinated national conferences and international internship program.

AFL-CIO International Union Summer Program, Colombo, Sri Lanka – Summer 2004 Intern: Interned at American Center for International Labor Solidarity in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Edited project reports, participated in conferences, assisted with union organizing drives.

Worker Rights Consortium, Washington, DC -- Summer and Fall 2001 Intern: Coordinated factory disclosure database. Conducted interviews and internet research for an investigation of the New Era Cap Company.