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Name Martin Jaffe
Title Fellow, Great Cities Institute
Professor and Director, Urban Planning and Policy
Business & Environment-Specialist, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
E-mail mjaffe@uic.edu
Phone (312) 996-2178
 
     
Marty Jaffe received his J.D. degree from Wayne State University Law School in 1973 and his LL.M. in 1984 from the DePaul University College of Law. In 1992-93 he was Visiting Associate Professor of Law, and in 1993-94, an Adjunct Professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, teaching in the law school's program in energy and environmental law.

Prior to joining UIC's faculty, Marty was a research program administrator and Senior Research Associate for the American Planning Association's research division in Chicago. He has also worked as a local government and as a regional planner in New York and Massachusetts. Marty currently serves as the Coastal Business & Environment Specialist for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program and is a Research Associate in the Great Cities Institute. He also serves on the Historic Preservation Commission of the Village of Wilmette.