Michael Pollack

Michael Pollack is an Assistant Professor of Law. 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 and with a B.A. with highest honors from Swarthmore College. He teaches and conducts research primarily in the areas of property law, land use regulation, local government, and administrative law.