Professor John R. Nolon’s article in Volume 34, Issue 1 of William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review is entitled The Land Use Stabilization Wedge Strategy: Shifting Ground to Mitigate Climate Change. The article will be available in January. The article has already been referenced on the Land Use Pro Blog.
John R. Nolon is the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law where he teaches property, land use, and the lawyer’s role in green development and is Counsel to the Law School’s Land Use Law Center and Real Estate Law Institute. He also directs the Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes and is Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Professor Nolon served as the Charles A. Frueauff Research Professor of Law during the 1991-92, 1997-98, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 academic years. He received the Richard L. Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award in 1999 and won the Goettel Prize for faculty scholarship in 2006. In 2009, he was awarded the National Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate by the American Planning Association and appointed James A. Hopkins Professor of Law.
Professor Nolon received his JD degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was a member of the Barrister’s Academic Honor Society. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Nebraska, where he was President of the Senior Honor Society. He has served as a consultant to President Carter’s Council on Development Choices for the 1980′s, President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, New York Governor George Pataki’s Transition Team, and Governor Elliot Spitzer’s Transition Team. Professor Nolon has served as Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies since 2001. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Housing and Development Reporter and is a member of the Editorial Board of THE LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, published by Thomson-West. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and served on the Association’s Eminent Domain Task Force.
Biography Courtesy of Pace Law School
