J o h n  M.  P a y n e
Board of Governors Distinguished Service
Professor, Professor of Law and Justice
Frederick W. Hall Scholar
(973) 353-5289
(973) 353-1445 (fax)
jpayne@kinoy.rutgers.edu
(Land Use; Constitutional Law; Torts; Current Supreme Court Term Seminar)

Professor Payne’s B.A. is from Yale, his J.D. from Harvard. He has been on the Rutgers faculty since 1971, and served as associate dean from 1976 to 1981, and from 1986 to 1991. For more than 20 years he has been the key participant in the Mt. Laurel cases, which have established the requirement that growing suburban communities include provisions for low and moderate income housing in their zoning regulations. His nationally recognized Mt. Laurel work has helped stimulate new approaches to housing opportunity, looking to a world in which decent shelter is considered a fundamental right.
 
Professor Payne has also been a driving force for historic preservation in New Jersey and critical to protecting the work and legacy of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He has served as president of the national Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and as a director of Preservation New Jersey, the New Jersey partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He has lectured about Frank Lloyd Wright around the U.S. and as far away as Japan.
 
As an academic, Professor Payne has written and lectured extensively. He has published at least 15 articles on housing and historic preservation issues, in addition to his Mt. Laurel writing, as well as co-editing one of the most highly respected and widely-used casebooks on land development and land law (Planning and Control of Land Development, 6th ed., 2005, with Daniel Mandelker et al.).