Frank Askin, Rutgers University School of Law professor, New Jersey State Bar Association member, and the longest serving general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, will retire this year after 50 years. A 1966 graduate of Rutgers Law School, Askin founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers, where he and his students challenged unconstitutional practices in both the United States and New Jersey Supreme Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the New Jersey Appellate Division and numerous federal and state trial courts.
“I have always viewed myself as a public-interest lawyer, a calling that is unique to the United States, where our constitutional system has made courts of law into potent vehicles of change,” he wrote his 1997 autobiography, Defending Rights, A Life in Law and Politics. To this end, he worked throughout his career, defending principles of free speech, racial justice and the right to individual privacy, while protecting against intrusive government practices, police harassment and discriminatory voting practices.
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