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(Evidence; Contracts; Fact Investigation;
Criminal and Civil Trial Advocacy; Urban Legal Clinic; Constitutional Litigation Clinic.)
Professor Raveson is a 1976 graduate of the School of Law-Newark, where he was a
member of the Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Phillip Forman of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then practiced with the ACLU Prisoners Rights Project and
Essex-Newark Legal Services. He also was a staff attorney in the Urban Legal Clinic prior to his
appointment to the faculty in 1981, and served as director of that clinic from 1993 to 2001. In 1985, Professor Raveson
established the Environmental Law Clinic, then only the second such law school clinic in the nation.
Professor Raveson has litigated countless trials in state and federal court, and numerous appeals before the New Jersey Supreme Court
and the Second and Third Circuits, including Right to Choose v. Byrne, successfully challenging the constitutionality of
restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortions and expanding the use of state constitutions as independent sources of
protection of individual rights; several police misconduct actions; an action successfully challenging the
constitutionality of a municipal ordinance restricting street vending; a case defining the parameters of the judicial contempt power,
a topic on which he has published three law review articles; an action arguing for the recognition of a constitutional right
to shelter for the homeless; several HIV discrimination actions; the defense of an attorney facing disbarment; and a case attempting to
collect a judgment against a Swiss bank for $124 billion, then the largest judgment in history.
Professor Raveson also helped to brief Karcher v. May in the U.S. Supreme Court, a successful challenge to New Jersey's "moment
of silence" law. He was also one of the attorneys representing Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis in their federal habeas
action, which resulted in the reversal of their 17 years in prison.
In 2001, Professor Raveson took a leave for several years to establish and run an international solar energy company. During a prior
leave, from 1985-1987, he served as the Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate. Professor
Raveson has also served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committees on Complimentary Dispute Resolution and Civil Practice.
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