Daryl Fair
Professor
Daryl R. Fair grew up on a farm in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. He went to a one-room school for seven years and graduated from high school in a class of fifty-five students. After receiving a B.S.Ed. degree from what was then Millersville State Teachers College, he taught at Manheim (PA) Central Senior High School for two years before entering graduate school. He did his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the M.A. in 1962 and the Ph.D. in 1965. While completing his dissertation at Penn, he accepted a position at Rider College in Trenton, where he taught from 1963 to 1965. After serving from 1968 to 1970 as Assistant to the President of Jersey City State College, he joined the Trenton State College faculty. He holds the rank of Professor.
Dr. Fair's teaching and research interests are in the areas of American constitutional law and American political organizations (political parties, interest groups, and the media.) In the field of constitutional law, he has done research on issues such as separation of powers, prisoners' rights, freedom of the press, and church-state relations. His most recent publication is a chapter entitled "The Everson Case in the Context of New Jersey Politics," which appears in the book Everson Revisited: Religion, Education and Law at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), edited by Jo Renee Formicola and Hubert Morken. His other publications include "Prisoners' Rights of Speech" and "Hudson v. Palmer," in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 1992), edited by Kermit Hall; "Judicial Strategies in Prison Litigation," in Criminal Corrections: Ideals and Realities (Lexington Books, 1983), edited by Jameson Doig; and "The Lower Federal Courts as Constitution Makers: The Case of Prison Conditions," American Journal of Criminal Law (July, 1979). He has also presented papers at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Northeastern Political Science Association and other professional organizations.
Support for Dr. Fair's research and other scholarly efforts have come from a variety of sources. He has received several released time research grants from The College of New Jersey and one from the New Jersey Historical Commission. He was a Faculty Fellow at Princeton University in 1986 and spent the 1979-80 academic year at the University of Wisconsin studying courts in American society on a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also participated in summer seminars funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1981 (Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Law, Princeton University) and 1986 (Historical and Philosophical Foundations of the American Constitution, Princeton University), and has taken part in programs funded by the American Political Science Association (1976, Harvard University) and the National Science Foundation (1974-75, University of Maryland).
Dr. Fair teaches American Government; Constitutional Law; Civil Liberties; Law and Society; Parties, Interest Groups and the Media; and Public Opinion, Voting and Elections. He is the college's Pre-Law Advisor and coordinates the Politics, Law and Philosophy Minor.
