Rutgers University–Newark Legal, Business Scholars Can Provide Expert Insights On Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Members of the media should directly contact these RU-N faculty experts
Professor Carlos A. Ball is lead author of an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in March in support of same-sex marriage. He also is the author of four books on LGBT issues, including Same-Sex Marriage and Children: A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law, The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and The Transformation of Parenthood and From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Cases That Have Changed Our Nation, and is co-editor of one of the leading casebooks on sexuality and the law. His blogs for the Huffington Post include “Why the Supreme Court Should Hear the DOMA Lawsuit” and “LGBT Parenting Rights and the Courts.”
Contact Ball at cball@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
TEXAS DEP’T OF HOUSING & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS V. INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT (FAIR HOUSING)
Professor David Troutt is the author of several books, including The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America (2014), which examines legal decisions and public policies that have produced many of the entrenched problems facing working and middle-class families and perpetuated racial and economic segregation and inner-city poverty. In addition to teaching, Troutt directs the Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers University–Newark, which produces research and policy perspectives on some of the nation’s most difficult equity issues.
Contact Troutt at dtroutt@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
Associate Professor Elise Boddie is a nationally recognized expert on civil rights who previously was director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and supervised LDF’s nationwide litigation program, including its advocacy in several major Supreme Court and federal appellate cases. She has litigated complex affirmative action, employment, economic justice, and school desegregation cases and argued in the Eighth and Eleventh Circuits. Boddie was honored by the Law and Society Association “for exceptional scholarship in the field of race, racism, and the law” for her UCLA Law Review article “Racial Territoriality.”
Contact Boddie at eboddie@kinoy.rutgers.edu
KING V. BURWELL (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT FEDERAL SUBSIDIES)
Associate Professor Christina Ho teaches and researches in the area of health law and policy. Her publications include the forthcoming article “Exceptions Meet Policy Absolutism: Outlawing Governmental Underreach in Health Law” and the 2012 op-ed “Health exchange brings meaningful choice to consumers,” which addressed a New Jersey bill, subsequently vetoed by the governor, to set up a state-run health insurance exchange for implementing the Affordable Care Act. Ho was a member of the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton Administration and later led Senator Hillary Clinton’s health policy legislative staff. She is a graduate of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School.
Ho can be contacted at 301-908-4392 (cell) or cho@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
Dr. Mahmud Hassan, Rutgers Business School, can discuss how the ruling could impact access to health care and costs of health care premiums. He is professor of finance and economics, director of Pharmaceutical Management, and director of The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for the Study of Pharmaceutical Management Issues. Hassan has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Business, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Health Affairs, International Journal of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Marketing, Inquiry, and many other peer-reviewed journals.