Before joining Rutgers in 1986, James Gray Pope worked in a shipyard and
represented labor unions. He specializes
in constitutional law, constitutional theory, and labor law.
Professor Pope received an A.B. and J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in
politics from Princeton. From 1974 to 1980, he worked in the metal
trades and was an active member of the International Association of
Machinists and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers.
After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird of
the California Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in
1986, he was associated with the Boston law firm of Segal, Roitman &
Coleman, where he represented labor unions and employees.
Professor Pope is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and serves
on the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP/AFT (AFL-CIO). His articles
about workers' rights, constitutional law, and labor history have
appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Columbia Law Review, Law and History Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Labor History, New Labor Forum (with Peter Kellman and Ed Bruno), and Working USA (also with Kellman and Bruno).
