In this episode, I speak with Professor John Nolon, Elisabeth Haub School of Law,  nationally recognized as the Director of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law Land Use Law Center. Prof. Nolon discusses mortgages. After an astute explanation of the levels of analysis necessary to understand mortgages, Prof. Nolon and I discuss how this topic, and property class in general, fits into the broader picture of educating first-year law students.


John R. Nolon is Distinguished Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University where he teaches property, land use, dispute resolution, and sustainable development law courses and is Counsel to the Law School's Land Use Law Center which he founded in 1993.  He served as Adjunct Professor of land use law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 2001-2016.

Professor Nolon was named one of two Distinguished Professors in 2014 by Pace University. Previously, he served as the James D. Hopkins Professor from 2009-2011 and 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, and was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2016-2017.  In 2009, he was awarded the National Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate by the American Planning Association.  The International City/County Management Association presented its Honorary Membership Award to Professor Nolon in 2014, its highest award to a person outside the city management profession for exemplary service to local government. The NY Planning Federation presented him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.  He is on the advisory boards of the Sustainable Development Code, the NY Planning Federation, and the Westchester/Fairfield chapter of the Urban Land Institute.

Professor Nolon received his J.D. 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.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Land Use and Environmental Law Review, published by Thomson-West and of the State and Local Government eJournal of the American Bar Association. Professor Nolon received a Fulbright Scholarship to study sustainable development law in Argentina in 1994-1995.


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