Michael Pollack is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Development. Before joining Cardozo, Professor Pollack served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.  He also worked as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, defending major legislative and regulatory initiatives from constitutional and statutory challenges. Professor Pollack clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Pollack graduated with a J.D. summa cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Furman Scholar, and with a B.A. with highest honors from Swarthmore College. He teaches and conducts research primarily in the areas of property law, state and local government law, land use regulation, and administrative law.

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Sidewalk Government

Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2024)

Property Law for the Ages

63 William & Mary Law Review 561 (2021) (with Lior Jacob Strahilevitz)

Reallocating Redevelopment Risk

73 Florida Law Review 1081 (2021)

Courts Beyond Judging

46 BYU Law Review 719 (2021)

A Knock on Knick's Revival of Federal Takings Litigation

72 Florida Law Review 419 (2020) (with Stewart E. Sterk)

Taking Data

86 University of Chicago Law Review 77 (2019) 

Land Use Federalism's False Choice

68 Alabama Law Review 707 (2017) 

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