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(Torts;
Business Torts and Intellectual Property; Community Economic Development;
Jurisprudence Seminar on Race, Literature, and Critical Theory.)
David Dante Troutt joined the
Rutgers Law School-Newark faculty in 1995. As a lawyer who graduated Harvard Law
School in 1991, Professor Troutt practiced both public interest and corporate
law, advocating on a broad range of areas including inner-city economic
development, intellectual property, and commercial litigation. He writes in two
primary areas -- metropolitan equity and race as well as intellectual property
and culture -- often combining law and other disciplines. His law review
scholarship includes, among other works, "A Portrait of the Trademark as a Black
Man: Intellectual Property, Commodification, and Redescription," 38 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1141 (2005);
"Ghettoes Made Easy: The Metamarket/Antimarket Dichotomy and the Legal Challenges of Inner-City
Development," 35 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2000);
"Screws, Koons, and Routine Aberrations: The Use of Fictional Narratives in Federal
Police Brutality Prosecutions," 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 18 (April 1999).
Professor Troutt is also the author or/and editor of several books:
The Monkey Suit -- and Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice
(The New Press, 1998), a collection of stories chronicling the imagined experiences
of African Americans involved in actual legal controversies from 1830 to
the present; After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
(The New Press, 2006) (including an essay, "Many Thousands Gone, Again"); and The
Importance of Being Dangerous, a novel (HarperCollins, 2007). In addition to
publications analyzing poverty in California cities and New Orleans, Professor
Troutt's non-fiction work includes regular columns about race, law, and
society in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other periodicals as well as chapters in a
variety of anthologies. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Shawn and daughter Naima. |
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