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Nicole Stelle Garnett

Professor of Law

Office Number: 3155 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.3091
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: ngarnett@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Sharon Loftus

Nicole Stelle Garnett’s teaching and research focus on property, land use, urban development, local government law, and education. She is the author of numerous of articles on these subjects and of Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009). She is currently working on a major empirical research project with Professor Peg Brinig examining the effects of Catholic school closures on urban neighborhoods. At Notre Dame, Professor Garnett also is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and, from 2008-2010, a Provost Fellow. During the Spring 2007 semester, Professor Garnett was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Garnett received her B.A. from Stanford in 1992, where she graduated with honors and distinction in political science. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995. Following graduation from law school, Professor Garnett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1995-1996) and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court (1998-1999). Before joining the law school in 1999, she worked for two years (1996-98) as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C.

In the News

LAW60906, Property

LAW70317, Local Government

LAW70345, Land Use Planning

LAW70525, Urban Property Law

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Constitutional law
  • Education reform and policy
  • Land use planning and regulation
  • Local government law
  • Property law (including zoning, takings, etc.)
  • Regulatory reform
  • School choice
  • Urban and economic development

Books

Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009),

Selected Publications

Private Norms and Public Spaces, 18 WM. & MARY BILL OF RTS. J. 183 (2009).

Planning as Public Use, 34 Ecology Law Quarterly 443 (2007). reprinted in 2008 ZONING AND PLANNING LAW HANDBOOK at 557 (Patricia E. Salkin ed., Thomson West 2008).

Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance, 106 Michigan Law Review 277-304 (2007).

Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs? (book review), 116 Yale Law Journal 598-630 (2006).

The Neglected Political Economy of Eminent Domain, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 101 (2006)

Unsubsidizing Suburbia, 90 Minnesota L. Rev. 459 (2005).

Relocating Disorder, Virginia Law Review 1075 (2005).

Ordering (And Order In) The City, 57 Stanford Law Review 1 (2004).

The Public Use Question as a Takings Problem, 71 George Washington Law Review 934 (2003).

Trouble Preserving Paradise, 87 Cornell Law Review 158 (2001).

On Castles and Commerce, 42 Wm. & Mary Law Review 1191 (2001) (reprinted in West’s 2002 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook).

The Road from Welfare to Work: Informal Transportation and the Urban Poor, 38 Harvard Journal on Legislation 173 (2001).