Professor Nolon served as the Charles A. Frueauff Research Professor of Law during the 1991-92, 1997-98, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 academic years. He received the Richard L. Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award in 1999 and won the Goettel Prize for faculty scholarship in 2006. In 2009, he was awarded the National Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate by the American Planning Association and appointed James A. Hopkins Professor of Law.

Professor Nolon received his JD degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was a member of the Barrister's Academic Honor Society. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Nebraska, where he was President of the Senior Honor Society. He has served as a consultant to President Carter's Council on Development Choices for the 1980's, President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development, New York Governor George Pataki's Transition Team, and Governor Elliot Spitzer’s Transition Team. Professor Nolon has served as Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies since 2001. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Housing and Development Reporter and is a member of the Editorial Board of THE LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, published by Thomson-West. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and served on the Association’s Eminent Domain Task Force.

Scholarship

Professor Nolon is co-author of the nation's oldest casebook on land use law: Land Use: Cases and Materials, by Morton Gitelman, John R. Nolon, and Patricia E. Salkin. He is coauthor of Thomson-West’s Land Use in a Nutshell. Professor Nolon's article entitled "The Advent of Local Environmental Law," published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, was selected by Thompson-West's Land Use and Environmental Law Review as one of the ten best articles on environmental and land use law published in 2002. Professor Nolon's article on the origins of smart growth, published in The Urban Lawyer, was also selected as one of the top ten articles in the nation on the topics of environmental and land use law in 2003. His article “Champions of Change: Reinventing Democracy Through Land Law Reform,” published by the Harvard Environmental Law Review, won the Goettel Prize for faculty scholarship for 2006 at Pace University School of Law.

Professor Nolon received a Fulbright Scholarship to develop a framework law for sustainable development in Argentina where he worked from 1994 through 1996. A collection of articles produced as a result of this work appeared in a symposium edition of the Pace Environmental Law Review. An anthology of seven of his articles was published in 2006 as a special issue of the Pace Environmental Law Review. Four of his 16 books have been published by the Environmental Law Institute on the topics of land use law, open space protection, local environmental law, and the mitigation of damage caused by natural disasters. In addition to his three dozen law review articles, he has published nearly 50 articles in the New York Law Journal, writes a column for the Real Estate Law Journal, and is a frequent author of articles in other practice and academic journals. His current research interest is the management of climate change through sustainable development law.
 

Courses Taught by Professor Nolon:

• Land Use Law
• Property
• The Lawyer's Role in Green Development

Publications by Professor Nolon: