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Romberg received his A.B. degree in
philosophy from Princeton University, then
spent time as a community organizer for a
peace and justice group and as a volunteer
tutor and counselor for juveniles on
probation in Washington, D.C., while
embarking on a short-lived and ill-fated
stint as a humor writer. He then began his
career as a public interest lawyer,
working for the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund and Public Citizen
Litigation Group, among other public
interest firms, while receiving his J.D.
from Northeastern University. Following
law school, he clerked for the Hon. Warren
J. Ferguson on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then
served for two years as a John J. Gibbons
Fellow in Public Interest and
Constitutional Law at the firm of Gibbons,
Del Deo, Griffinger & Vecchione in
Newark, NJ, and taught as an adjunct
clinical professor in Rutgers-Newark Law
School's Constitutional Litigation Clinic.
As a Gibbons Fellow and clinical
professor, he has written or co-written
numerous briefs on important issues of
public interest law in New Jersey and
nationally, including challenges to
Megan's Law; New Jersey's "child
exclusion" welfare reform; the public
school finance system; the paternal
preference in children's surnames;
purported pre-emption of the Consumer
Fraud Act; an overly strict interpretation
of the Drug Kingpin statute; and
unconstitutional treatment of New Jersey's
inmate population. He came to Seton Hall
in 1995. Professor Romberg currently
teaches Contracts and supervises the school's
Impact Litigation Clinic. His scholarly interests
include class actions, law reform, and
constitutional law.
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Law Review Articles
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Half
a Loaf is Predominant and Superior
to None: Partial Class Certification of
Particular Issues Under Fed. R. Civ.
P. 23(c)(4)(A), 2002 Utah L. Rev.
249
(2002).
Is
There a Doctrine in the House?
Welfare Reform and the
Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine,
22 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1051 (1995)
New
York Times, "The Family Cap and
Other Myths: Why Stay With
'Reforms' Politicians Concede Don't
Work"
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