David D. Troutt

David Dante Troutt is Distinguished Professor of Law and Derrick A. Bell Scholar at Rutgers Law School-Newark where he also founded and directs the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). He emphasizes using law and interdisciplinary study in order to understand structural inequality and to formulate legal and policy reform strategies. Troutt teaches tort law, business torts/intellectual property, civil rights and a multidisciplinary approach to racial and economic inequality (land use, civil rights, state and local government, housing and poverty law). Troutt is the author of five books: Reckoning the Racial Reckoning: Awareness and Accountability after George Floyd (Cambridge University Press), The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America (NYU Press), The Monkey Suit: Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice (The New Press), After the Fall: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (The New Press), and a novel, The Importance of Being Dangerous (Amistad/HarperCollins). His public scholarship on equitable growth, housing and structural inequality/civil rights is available at www.clime.rutgers.edu. In addition to many scholarly articles, he writes frequently on issues of law, race and inequality for a variety of national publications. A Harlemite relocated to New Jersey, Troutt is the proud father of two tremendous daughters, a dedicated teacher, jazz drummer and keeper of soulful aquatic fish. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his juris doctor from Harvard Law School.