Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar. (Constitutional Law;
Constitutional Theory; Labor Law; Labor Law History; Civil
Disobedience.) 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 a Boston law firm,
where he represented labor unions and employees. Professor Pope is a
member of the National Lawyers Guild. He has written numerous articles
about workers' rights, constitutional law, and labor history. A list of
his publications may be found at http://www.andromeda.
rutgers.edu/~jpope/publications.html.
