University professor (Property; Land Use Controls; Housing Law and Policy)
Professor Simmons earned his A.B. and LL.B. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was associate editor of the California Law Review.
Following graduation, he was an Alvord Law Fellow at the University of
Wisconsin. Professor Simmons joined the Rutgers faculty as dean in 1975
and served in that capacity until 1993, when he was named a University
Professor. Professor Simmons has taught at Ohio State, the State
University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Illinois, Case
Western Reserve, and the University of California. He has been a member
of the New Jersey Law Revision Commission, the New Jersey Supreme
Court's Advisory Committee on the Bar Examination, the New Jersey State
Bar Association's Committee on Legal Education, and the New Jersey
Supreme Court's Task Force on Minority Concerns. He has also been a
trustee of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and a justice of the peace.
Currently, Professor Simmons teaches in the urban planning program
in New Brunswick as well as at the law school, and he is the school's
elected faculty representative to the University Senate.
