Adjunct Professor of Law
Education
- J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994)
- M.A., History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1989)
- B.A., Political Science and Education, Duke University (1987)
Mark Dorosin is the Co-Director of the Julius L.
Chambers Center for Civil Rights, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing
low-wealth North Carolina communities with sound legal representation in their
efforts to dismantle structural racism. The Chambers Center focuses on the
impacts of racial exclusion, including housing discrimination, environmental
justice, restrictions on political participation; and racial disparities in
education.
Prior to starting the Chambers Center, Mark spent nearly
ten years as the Managing Attorney at the UNC Center for Civil Rights,
developing and coordinating the Center’s litigation and advocacy agenda.
Mark teaches Political and
Civil Rights and State and Local Government at UNC Law School. He was elected
to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 2012 and re-elected in2016, and
currently serves as Chair.
Dorosin is a graduate of Duke University and
received a master's degree from UNC-Greensboro and a law degree from UNC-Chapel
Hill in 1994. Prior to joining the Center for Civil Rights, Dorosin worked for
the Duke University School of Law as the supervising attorney in the Community
Enterprise Clinic. Dorosin has also worked as an attorney and loan servicing
officer at Self-Help, a leading North Carolina community development
corporation. He was an assistant clinical professor of law and the interim
director of the UNC Law School Community Development Law Clinic during the
2003-04 academic year. Prior to that, he was a partner at Chapel Hill law firm
concentrating on civil rights, constitutional law and employment
discrimination.
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