D.C. Fair Housing and Predatory Lending

For Real Estate Professionals

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

11 Dupont Circle, N.W.
Suite 450
Washington, D.C. 20036

Course fee is $65 per person.

Registration

Prof. Robert Dinerstein, Esq.

Treasurer

Robert Dinerstein is a professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law (WCL). He specializes in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the rights of people with intellectual disabilities (mental retardation) and mental illness, disability laws in general, homelessness, civil rights, criminal justice, lawyer-client issues, and clinical legal education.

Mr. Dinerstein was the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs from 1997-2004, and previously directed WCL's clinical program (1988-1996), nationally recognized for its excellence. Dinerstein was a member of the Clinton transition team in 1992 and was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to serve on the President's Committee on Mental Retardation (on which he served until 2001).

Prior to teaching at American University, Mr. Dinerstein worked as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, where he handled federal court cases on the rights of people institutionalized in mental hospitals, mental retardation and juvenile institutions, prisons, and jails. Dinerstein currently serves on the board of directors of several organizations, including the Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities, Inc. (president), Society of American Law Teachers (board of governors), Equal Rights Center (treasurer), Mental Disability Rights International, and Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Inc. (treasurer).  In the past, he has also served on the boards of the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors (2002-2005), Maryland Disability Law Center, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, and Law Students in Court.

He is also actively involved on committees related to legal education for the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (including the standards review committee) and the Association of American Law Schools (including chair of the section on clinical legal education, committee on clinical legal education, committee on sections and the annual meeting, and the planning committee for the 2006 Clinical Teachers Conference, as well as a member of the membership review committee).

Mr. Dinerstein has written numerous law review articles and chapters on clinical legal education and disability rights, and is coauthor and coeditor of A Guide to Consent (American Association on Mental Retardation, 1999), which addresses issues of capacity and consent in the lives of people with mental retardation. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Cornell University.