Chinh Q. Le is the Practitioner in Residence for the Urban Revitalization Project. In that capacity, he litigates, supervises students, and works in conjunction with the Civil Litigation Clinic on housing- and education-related matters, with a focus on predatory/discriminatory lending, the foreclosure crisis, and the education of at-risk youth. His research interests include school integration/desegregation, educational equity, civil rights litigation, and racial justice.  

Between 2001 and 2006, he was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the first two years as a Skadden Fellow. While at LDF, he served as lead or co-counsel on civil rights cases in more than a half-dozen states, representing class-action and individual plaintiffs in litigation against governmental entities, including two states, and assisting defendants in suits challenging equity or integration policies. He also engaged in non-litigation advocacy and frequent public speaking on civil rights, school desegregation, and education law issues, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other publications. Immediately prior to joining the clinical faculty of Seton Hall in 2008, he was a litigation attorney at Jenner & Block LLP, where he represented individual and institutional clients in general commercial litigation, securities litigation, and white collar criminal investigations.  

He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review, was elected to the order of the coif, and received several honors, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Mary Claiborne & Roy H. Ritter Prize, the Raven Award, and the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Student Award. Upon graduation, he served as a law clerk to Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  

He is admitted to practice in the state courts of New York, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern District of New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He practices in New Jersey by permission.

Racially Integrated Education and the Role of the Federal Government (work in progress).

The Post-Seattle/Louisville Challenge: Extra-Legal Obstacles to Integration, Ohio St. L. J. (forthcoming 2008) (with E. Frankenberg).

Desegregation, BATTLEGROUND: SCHOOLS (S. Matheson & E. W. Ross, eds., 2007) (with E. Frankenberg).

Lynn, Massachusetts: How One Community Chose Integration (and a Select Few Seek to Deny It), THE NEXT AMERICAN CITY (October 2004).