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Jonathan Rosenbloom

Titles

  • Adjunct Professor

Degrees

  • LLM, Harvard Law School
  • JD, New York Law School
  • B.Arch and BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

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. 

Expertise

  • Land Use Law
  • State and Government Law

Departments

  • Summer Session