Welcome Back!

The Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is excited to begin the 2024-25 school year. In addition to new publications, we begin the year with announcements about expanding research initiatives, new faculty affiliations, summer intern activities and hiring opportunities.

• Legislative Brief: An Analysis of New Jersey’s Revision to Tax Sale Foreclosures:  New Jersey A3772 by Joshua Miller, Senior Research Fellow

• Civil Rights Initiative Legal Memo: Anti-DEI Retrenchment and Litigation after Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard by Anna Griffith, Senior Research Fellow

CLiME is expanding its subject areas to devote additional resources to core issues. The CLiME Civil Rights Initiative (CRI) will study the current state of civil rights doctrines in the United States. Full-time staff will examine case law trends and doctrinal challenges while engaging in interdisciplinary study related to factual issues in contemporary civil rights litigation. 

CLiME's Housing Studies will soon expand with the addition of a dedicated assistant director and the many student fellows that annually help the Center produce critical important studies in local, state and national housing issues.

CLiME will regularly feature legislative briefs on trends in state and local legislation (see above) and model legislation on issues of equitable growth. We will continue installments of our "What to Do" series of reports offering starter understandings of common legal issues facing ordinary people.

CLiME CRI will benefit from the addition of five Rutgers Law School civil rights law experts who join us as affiliated faculty. They are Bernard Bell, Rachel Godsil, Carlos Gonzalez, David Lopez, and Penny Venetis.

They join CLiME's additional affiliated faculty located on our website.

This summer, CLiME had six research fellows: Esder Chong, Daniel Froehlich, Marthalyn Johnson, Maya Pacheco-Smith, Jake Newcomb, and Alexis Uzoaru. Congratulations to Daniel Froelich, whose excellent work on the Mt. Laurel and Racial Segregation Project earned him the first annual David Harris Fellowship Award.

On April 26th, CLiME hosted a conference on "Equitable Growth in the City: Problems, Approaches, and Public Scholarship." A summary of the event is on our website. Recordings of each of the panels are linked below:

• Visions of an Equitable Newark: Now and in the Future
• Challenges Behind Affordable Housing
• Public-Private Partnerships in Equitable Growth- The Newark Equitable Growth Commission
• CLiME in Progress: Works of Public Scholarship

A summary of the conference is located here.

We are pleased to announce that CLiME has launched a new podcast, endinequality. The podcast is hosted by Professor David Troutt and explores issues of structural inequality and system racism. You can listen to the first 5 episodes here.

CLiME is a co-sponsor of a housing conference by the Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (R.E.A.C.H.) on October 18th, 2024 at the Bloustein School of Planning and Urban Policy. Register now at https://rwv.rutgers.edu/housing-conference/