About the Author

• Author: John R. Nolon
• Pages: 15-15

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About the Author

John R. Nolon is Professor of Law at Pace Law

School and is Counsel to the Law School’s Land

Use Law Center. He has been an Adjunct Professor

of Land Use L aw and Policy at the Yale School of

Forestry and Environmental Studies since 2001. In

2009, he received the National Leadership Award

for a Planning Advocate by the American Plan-

ning Association; in 2014, the International City/

County Management Association presented him

its Honorary Membership Award, its highest honor

for a person outside the city management profession

for his exemplary service to local government. He served President Carter’s

Council on Development Choices for the 1980’s, President Clinton’s Council

on Sustainable Development, New York Governor George Pataki’s Transi-

tion Team, and Governor Elliot Spitzer’s Transition Team. Professor Nolon

received a Fulbright Scholarship to develop a framework law for sustainable

development in Argentina where he worked from 1994 through 1996. He

has published four books for the Environmental Law Institute and is co-

author of three books for omson-West: the nation’s oldest casebook on

land use law, Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materi-

als; Land Use in a Nutshell; and Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Law in a Nutshell.