PUBLICATIONS
Books, articles, chapters, & shorter works.
Sara Bronin’s interdisciplinary research in the areas of property, land use, historic preservation, and energy law focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. A list of her scholarly works appears below. For her op/eds, click here.
- Restatement (Fourth) of Property (American Law Institute) (with Henry E. Smith et al.) 2015-
- Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning (West Publishing (with Dwight H. Merriam) 2014-
- Land Use Regulation (Foundation Press) (with Stewart Sterk & Eduardo Peñalver) 2d ed 2016, 3d ed 2020
- Historic Preservation Law (Foundation Press) (with J. Peter Byrne) 1st ed 2012, 2d ed 2021
- Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell (West Publishing) (with Ryan M. Rowberry) 1st ed 2014, 2d ed 2018
ARTICLES & SCHOLARLY ESSAYS
- Integrity as a Legal Concept, Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment (provisionally accepted) forthcoming 2021
- Rules of the Road: The Struggle for Safety and the Unmet Promise of Federalism, 106 Iowa Law Review 2021
- Law’s Disaster: Heritage at Risk, 46 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 489, 2021
- Zoning for Families, 95 Indiana Law Journal 1, 2020
- Comprehensive Rezonings, 2019 BYU Law Review 725, 2020
- What the Pandemic Can Teach Climate Attorneys, 72 Stanford Law Review Online 2020
- Energy in the Ecopolis, 45 Environmental Law Reporter 10514, 2015
- Community-Scale Renewable Energy, 4 San Diego Journal of Climate Change and Energy Law 165 (with Hannah J. Wiseman) 2013
- Building-Related Renewable Energy and 360 State Street, 64 Vanderbilt Law Review 1875, 2012
- Solar Rights for Texas Property Owners, 89 Texas Law Review See Also 79, 2011
- Curbing Energy Sprawl with Microgrids, 43 Connecticut Law Review 547, 2010
- Modern Lights, 80 University of Colorado Law Review 881, 2009
- Solar Rights, 89 Boston University Law Review 1217, 2009
- The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, and the States, 93 Minnesota Law Review 231, 2008
- Wrestling with MUDs to Pin Down the Truth about Special Districts, 75 Fordham Law Review 3041, 2007
- Beyond Worship: The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 and Religious Institutions’ Auxiliary Uses, 24 Yale Law & Policy Review 207, 2006
- Rehabilitating Rehab through State Building Codes, 115 Yale Law Journal 1744, 2006
- “Gone Too Far”: Oregon’s Measure 37 and the Perils of Over-Regulating Land Use, 23 Yale Law & Policy Review 587, 2005
CHAPTERS
- Transportation and Land Use, Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (American Bar Association Press; Michael Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger, eds.) 3d ed. forthcoming 2022
- Heritage-Related Disaster Policy in the United States, The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law: Risk, Recovery, and Redevelopment (Cambridge University Press; John Travis Marshall, Susan Kuo, and Ryan M. Rowberry, ed.) forthcoming 2022
- Adapting National Preservation Standards to Climate Change, Toward Sustainability and Equity: Envisioning Preservation Policy Reform (Columbia University Press; Erica Avrami, ed.) 2021
- Historic Preservation Issues in Real Estate Development, Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions, 5th ed.(American Bar Association Press; Kevin R. Murray, ed.) 2021
- The Promise and Perils of Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands, Tribes, Land and the Environment (Routledge; Sarah Krakoff and Ezra Rosser, eds.) 2012
- National Report – United States, Architectural Heritage, Sites, and Landscapes Seized by Urban Law (Bruylant Press; David Renders et al., eds.) 2019
- Solar Rights in the United States, Delivering Energy Policy in the EU and US: A Multi-Disciplinary Reader (Edinburgh University Press; Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little, eds.) 2016
SHORT REVIEWS & PROFESSIONAL WORKS
- Thinking Big in Thinking Small: Are Tiny Homes the Solution to Our Housing Crisis? (reviewing Lisa B. Alexander article), JOTWELL 2021
- Architects Can Find an Opportunity in Zoning Reform, Architype Magazine 2021
- A Case for Better Street Design, Planning Magazine 2021
- Historic and Green in Connecticut, National Trust for Historic Preservation Leadership Forum 2020
- Rethinking Parking Minimums, Planning Magazine 2018
- Who Owns Lebanon’s Town Green?, Connecticut Explored 2018
- Rezoning the Post-Industrial City: Hartford, American Bar Association Property & Probate 2017
- Using Urban Agriculture to Grow Southern New England, Connecticut Planning (with Laurie Beyranevand et al.) 2015
- Peaceful Coexistence: Independent Microgrids are Coming. Will Franchised Utilities Fight Them or Foster Them?, Public Utilities Fortnightly (with Paul McCary) 2013
- New Haven’s Elm City Market: Coop Expands Access to Fresh Food, Communities & Banking 2011