Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of
Law, and Justice Frederick W. Hall Scholar. (Land Use; Constitutional
Law; Torts; Current Supreme Court Term Seminar.) Professor Payne's B.A. is from Yale, his J.D. from Harvard. A member of
the Rutgers faculty since 1971, he 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 Mount 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 Mount 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 also has 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 United States 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 Mount 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).
