CLiME is fortunate to enjoy the intellectual support of law faculty and our colleagues across Rutgers University-Newark.

Affiliated Faculty

Jon C. Dubin is associate dean for clinical education, professor, and Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar at the School of Law—Newark where he teaches courses in administrative law, civil rights law, and poverty law. He also is a faculty member of the Civil Justice Clinic. Dubin joined Rutgers School of Law—Newark in 1999. Three years later, he was named director of the school’s clinical program

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Jon C. Dubin

Peter Hepburn

I am a Sociologist and Demographer. My research examines how changes to three core social institutions—work, criminal justice, and housing—serve to produce and perpetuate inequality. I use a variety of quantitative methods and data sources to demonstrate and analyze disparities in exposure to precarious work, the criminal justice system, and housing instability. Throughout my research, I develop measures and models that allow for new insight into the variability of lived experience for disadvantaged populations and the transmission of inequality across generations.

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Kevin Lyons

Dr. Lyons conducts research on developing and integrating global environmental, social, economic, ethical criteria and data into supply chain/procurement systems and processes. His research work includes the environmental and economic impacts on raw material extraction, logistics, manufacturing, consumption, consumer of multiple products and services research, designing and implementing local, national and international environmental economic development systems, waste-to-energy systems and environmental and sustainable social policy and financial impact forecasting (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley Corporate Social and Environmental Impact Reporting). He has also created the supply chain archeology and supply chain waste archeology research disciplines and has researched and written extensively on conducting environmental health-checks on global supply chains and the resulting benefits of reduced risk management impacts and costs.

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Marilyn Rubin

Dr. Marilyn Rubin is Distinguished Research Fellow for the Office of Public Engagement in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. She works with faculty, staff, students, and alumni to promote community engagement in the Greater Newark area. She is Professor Emerita of Public Administration and Economics, and former director of the MPA Program at John Jay College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has had more than 35 years of experience working as a consultant and advisor to high-level officials at all levels of government on projects related to fiscal policy, economic development, and strategic planning. She is an elected fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).

Dennis Kim-Prieto

Mr. Kim-Prieto provides reference services and library instruction and teaches a course on Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research. He took his M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law. He has also earned a master of fine arts degree in English from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

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