Clinical professor of law, Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic
Professor Auffant received his B.A. from Herbert H. Lehman College
of the City University of New York in 1979 and his J.D. from Rutgers
School of Law-Newark in 1982. He joined Rutgers in 1998 as a clinical
attorney in the Urban Legal Clinic. Professor Auffant has worked as a
staff attorney for Essex-Newark Legal Services, as director of housing
for the Urban League of Essex County, as associate counsel for the
Newark Board of Education, and as counsel to the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey. His urban law experience also includes
serving as a commissioner of the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City
of Newark since 1997. In the Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic he specializes in the
real estate and transactional representation of urban charter schools.
