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Adjunct Faculty

Jonathan Rosenbloom

Adjunct Professor
Summer Session

LLM, Harvard Law School

JD, New York Law School

B.Arch and BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Jonathan Rosenbloom

Biography

Jonathan Rosenbloom is a Professor of Law at Albany Law School and Director of the Flex JD Program teaching sustainability, land use, and racial justice. Jonathan was previously the Associate Dean at Vermont Law School and the Dwight D. Opperman Distinguished Professor of Law at Drake Law School. He is the author of Building Food Security and Sovereignty: 40 Ways to Regenerate the Local Food System through Development (ELI 2023) and Remarkable Cities and the Fight Against Climate Change (ELI 2020); co-author of two textbooks, Resilience & Sustainability: From Theory to Practice (Aspen 2018) and Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials (9th ed. West 2017); and co-editor of Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2018) and Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (ELI Press 2018). 

He is the author of dozens of articles and is one of the Top 200 ranked scholars on HeinOnline and his scholarship has been cited in over 150 federal opinions. Jonathan is the founding executive director of the Sustainable Development Code, a model land use code designed to provide local governments with the best sustainability practices in land use. Prior to teaching, he founded a non-profit, clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, and worked for the federal government and Reed Smith LLP. Jonathan received his Bachelors in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, JD from New York Law School, and LLM from Harvard Law School. 

Publications

Articles

Reducing Racial Bias Embedded in Land Use Codes, 3 CityLaw 50 (2020).

Facing Water-Based Challenges with Sustainable Development Codes, 8 Zoning Practice 2 (American Planning Association) (2019).

Foundations of Insider Environmental Law, 49 Environ. L. 631 (2019) (with Keith Hirokawa).

Fifty Shades of Gray Infrastructure: Land Use & the Failure to Create Resilient Cities, 93 Wash. L. R. 101 (2018) (cited as one of best land use articles of the year by the Zoning and Planning Law Handbook).

Teaching Applied Sustainability: A Practicum Based on Drafting Ordinances, 4 Texas A&M J. of Prop. L. 83 (2017) (with John Dernbach) (symposium).

Local Governments and Global Commons, 6 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1489 (2015).

Funding Adaptation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 657 (2014) (symposium).

Towards Engaged Scholarship, 33 Pace L. Rev. 821 (2013) (with 16 law professors).

Uncommon Approaches to Commons Problems, 64 Hastings L. J. 1273 (2013) (with Blake Hudson).

Other

"Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities" in Making America a Better Place for All: Sustainable Development Recommendations for the Biden Administration (John C. Dernbach, Scott E. Schang, eds.), ELR News & Analysis (2021).

Facing Water-Based Challenges with Sustainable Development Codes, 8 Zoning Practice 2 (American Planning Association) (2019).

Learning From Local Response to Environmental DisruptionELR News & Analysis (Volume 49, Issue No. 1) (2019) (with Keith Hirokawa).

Chapters

Local Variation to Lead the Disruption of Contemporary Environmental Law in Environmental Law. Disrupted. (Jessica Owley, Keith H. Hirokawa, eds.) (ELI Press, 2021).

Gaming Rhetoric and the Complicated Story of Local Identity in Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (Sarah Krakoff, Melissa Powers, Jonathan Rosenbloom, eds.) (ELI Press 2019) (with Keith Hirokawa).

Books

Editor, Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (ELI Press) (co-editors Sarah Krakoff, Melissa Powers) (2019).

Editor, Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group) (co-editor with Dan Cole, Blake Hudson) (2018).

Social-Ecological Resilience & Sustainability: From Theory to Practice (Aspen Publishers) (co-author Shelley Saxer) (2018).

Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials (9th ed. West) (co-authors John Nolon, Patricia Salkin, Stephen Miller) (2017).

Presentations

"Developing Local Ecosystem Governance," Sixth Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Arizona State University (May 14, 2021).

"Sustainable Zoning and the Legalizing of Housing," Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit (May 13, 2021).

"Sustainable Development Codes and Equity," Princeton, NJ (May 2, 2021).

Panelist, "The Future of Sustainable Land Use," Pepperdine University School of Law (Apr. 5, 2021).

Moderator, Emerging Environmental Law Curriculum Roundtable Series (with Jenny Rushlow), Vermont Law School (Jan. 28, Feb. 25, and Mar. 25, 2021).

Panelist, "Beyond the Pandemic: Addressing the Silent Crises in Public Health and Food Security Through Planning" (with Laurie Beyranevand), Western Places | Western Spaces (March 19, 2021).

Panelist, "Land Use and Racial Justice," University of Idaho School of Law (Mar. 1, 2021).

"Sustainable Development Code and Transportation," University of Iowa School of Law (Feb. 15, 2021).

"Zoning Justice," UCLA School of Law (Feb. 11, 2021).

"Sustainable Zoning," Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Jan. 20, 2021).

Podcast with ZoneCo a plan and zoning podcast, Sustainable Land Use Codes, Dec. 15, 2020.

Indiana Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan Strategy for Climate Resilience, Development Code Amendments to Reduce GHG Emissions, Indiana University, Dec. 11, 2019.

Remarkable Cities and the Fight Against Climate Change, Environmental Law Institute, Dec. 10, 2020.

Sustainable Developers Roundtable, The Forbes Funds, Nov. 18, 2020.

Fireside Chats, Environmental Law Society, November 16, 2020.

AALS Webinar Series, Adaptive Zoning: Climate, COVID, and Racial Justice, Aug. 11, 2020.

Interview with Environmental Law Institute’s People Places Planet Podcast discussing Remarkable Cities and the Fight Against Climate Change, June 17, 2020.

Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Lawyers Industry ConversationJune 11, 2020.

Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Western Places/Western Spaces: Creating Inclusive Communities, Green Infrastructure and Development Codes, March 7, 2020.

American Association of Law Schools, Outsourcing Emissions: Why Local Governments Can and Should Regulate Consumption-Based Greenhouse Gases, January 4, 2020.

Design Residency 2019, Panelist, Des Moines, Growth, and Moving Forward Sustainably, Nov. 6, 2019.

"Sustainable Development Code & Growing in an Unprecedented Time of Change," University of Connecticut, October 15, 2019.

University of Connecticut, Sustainable Development Code & Growing in an Unprecedented Time of Change, Oct. 15, 2019.

University of Calgary and University of Houston, Second Annual Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Works-in-Progress roundtable, Outsourcing Emissions: Why Local Governments Can and Should Regulate Consumption-Based Greenhouse Gases, Oct. 11, 2019.

"Outsourcing Emissions: Why Local Governments Can and Should Regulate Consumption-based Greenhouse Gases," Second Annual Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Works-in-Progress roundtable, University of Calgary and University of Houston, October 11, 2019.

Mountain Towns 2030, Net Zero Summit, GHG Reductions, Development, and Ecological Uncertainty, Oct. 3, 2019.

"GHG Reductions, Development, and Ecological Uncertainty," Mountain Towns 2030, NetZero Summit, October 3, 2019.

United Nations University, Regional Center For Education, Local Implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals, Sept. 24, 2019.

Indiana 4th annual Climate Leadership Summit, Growing Sustainably in an Unprecedented Time of Change, Sept. 12, 2019.

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Burdens to Benefits: Biodiversity, Development, & the Sustainable Development Code, July 9, 2019.

Fifth Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Arizona State University, Defining Sustainability in the Context of Development Codes, May 7, 2019.

Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Western Places/Western Spaces: Creating Inclusive Communities, Best Practices in Sustainable Development, March 8-9, 2019.

International Academic Asso. on Planning, Law and Property Rights, Fifty Shades of Grey Infrastructure: Land Use and the Failure to Create Resilient Cities, February 18-22, 2019.

American Association of Law Schools, Sustainable Development Code, January 3, 2019.

Awards & Accomplishments

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