The Price of Paradise is a national exploration of the legal and political assumptions that guide residential organization in metropolitan America, the fiscal stresses that result from localism and segregation and a mutuality-based argument for regional equity policies.

David Dante Troutt is professor of law and the founding director of the Rutgers Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Troutt is also author of After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina, a collection of one dozen essays primarily by black legal scholars on a wide array of issues arising from the disaster, relief effort and reconstruction. Professor Troutt is a frequent public speaker and contributor to a variety of national periodicals, including Politico, Huffington Post, Reuters and The Crisis.

Sponsored by Penn's Center for Africana Studies, co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology, Urban Studies Program, and Penn Law.