Nicole Stelle Garnett

Professor of Law

Office Number: 123 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.3091
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: ngarnett@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Sharon Loftus

Nicole Stelle Garnett joined the Law School faculty in 1999. She received her B.A. from Stanford in 1992, where she graduated with honors and distinction in political science and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995.

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). Professor Garnett also 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.

Professor Garnett’s primary research interests include property and land use law and education reform. She is a Fellow of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives.

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 (under contract with Yale University Press)

Selected Publications

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

Planning as Public Use, 34 Ecology Law Quarterly 443 (2007).

Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs? (book review), 117 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).