Greg Baltz

Greg Baltz (he/him/his) is an assistant professor of law at Rutgers Law School-Newark. His scholarly interests are at the intersection of property, access to justice, and law and social movements. His most recent article, Tenant Union Law, is forthcoming in the Yale Law & Policy Review. He has also been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change and the Law & Political Economy Blog. Professor Baltz is the co-director of the Housing Justice and Tenant Solidarity Clinic, where he supervises third-year law students as they learn to employ the law to support community organizations to build leadership, capacity, and power, including through litigation on behalf of tenant associations. Previously, Professor Baltz worked as a tenants’ rights attorney at TakeRoot Justice, where he collaborated with tenant organizers and represented New York City-based tenant associations in rent strikes, tenant-initiated receivership actions, landlord bankruptcies, and legislative advocacy. He began his legal career as a Ford Foundation Fellow at Make the Road New York, where he litigated wage and hour and employment discrimination cases on behalf of organized immigrant workers. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.