The election of 2024 represents a critical turning point for issues of race, law, local governance and equitable growth. In this issue of our newsletter, CLiME writers offer new insights on community policing and criminal justice, wealth preservation, foreclosure defense and the critique of Black male voters. We also have terrific new staff additions.

Senior Research Fellow Joshua Miller publishes three important papers this month:

1. Reimagining Criminal Justice: Leveraging Federal Grants to Foster Community-Based Criminal Justice Programs
2. A blog essay on voting: The Invisible Black Man: A Great Opportunity for Democrats in 2024 and Beyond
3. Legislative Briefing: New Jersey’s Community Wealth Preservation Act



Andréa Maddan continues our “What to Do” Series with two charts (Tax Foreclosure and Mortgage Foreclosure) and a detailed memo on Mortgage and Tax Foreclosures. This vitally important resource informs distressed homeowners of the ins and outs of both the mortgage and tax foreclosure systems in New Jersey—what to expect, how to avoid it and what to do in preparation for hiring legal counsel.

New Staff



We are excited to announce the return in a full-time role of Anna Griffith, RLS ’24, as Senior Research Fellow in CLiME’s new Civil Rights Initiative. Anna will be lending her prodigious research and writing skills to work on the shape of civil rights doctrine in the backlash to racial reckoning.

Daniel Froelich (JD candidate, Rutgers Law School) – Mt. Laurel and Racial Integration: A South Jersey Case Study

Jake Newcomb (JD candidate, Rutgers Law School) – The Regulatory Challenge of Interior Pollution Control

Habeeb Scott (Masters of Public Administration candidate, Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration) – Evidence-Based Mobility Design: Best Practices for Guiding "At-Risk" Youth into College