Professor Jon Romberg is a long-term public interest lawyer and scholar with wide-ranging
interests in civil rights, contracts, complex litigation, and federal appellate practice.
Professor Romberg received his A.B. degree in philosophy from Princeton University,
then spent time as a community organizer for a peace and justice group and as a volunteer
tutor and counselor for juveniles on probation in Washington, D.C., while embarking
on a short-lived and ill-fated stint as a humor writer. He then began his career as
a public interest lawyer, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
and Public Citizen Litigation Group, among other public interest firms, while receiving
his J.D. from Northeastern University. Following law school, he clerked for the Hon.
Warren J. Ferguson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He
then served for two years as a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional
Law at the firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Griffinger & Vecchione in Newark, NJ, and taught
as an adjunct clinical professor in Rutgers-Newark Law School's Constitutional Litigation
Clinic. As a Gibbons Fellow and clinical professor, he has written or co-written numerous
briefs on important issues of public interest law in New Jersey and nationally, including
challenges to Megan's Law; New Jersey's "child exclusion" welfare reform; the public
school finance system; the paternal preference in children's surnames; purported pre-emption
of the Consumer Fraud Act; an overly strict interpretation of the Drug Kingpin statute;
and unconstitutional treatment of New Jersey's inmate population. He came to Seton
Hall in 1995. Professor Romberg currently teaches Contracts and supervises the school's
Impact Litigation Clinic. His scholarly interests include class actions, law reform,
civil rights, special education and constitutional law.