 As a university professor, his salary is over $300,000 per year as reported by "The Daily Targum", the newspaper of Rutgers University.Formerly a professor of law, co-director of the Program in Environmental and Energy Law, and founding director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology, he also served as interim dean in 1996-97, and as associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for interdisciplinary programs.Deutsch's expertise at that time, prior to his becoming a university administrator, was in the fields of environmental law and land use.