Elected Member

Professor Sara C. Bronin

Ithaca, NY
Cornell Law School
Education
University of Texas, B.Architecture, B.Arts (Plan II)
University of Oxford, M.Sc., Economic and Social History
Yale Law School, J.D.

Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, and policymaker specializing in property, land use, historic preservation, and climate change.  She is a professor of planning and law at Cornell University and has served as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, the Sorbonne in Paris, and universities in Switzerland and Korea.  She has advised the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Sustainable Development Code, served on the board of Latinos in Heritage Conservation, and founded Desegregate Connecticut.  She was educated at Yale Law School (Truman Scholar), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Texas.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, Key to the City.

She serves as an Associate Reporter on American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property project.

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Areas of Expertise
Historic Preservation (Real Property)
Land Use (Real Property)
Energy Law
Environmental Law
Property Law (Real Property)