Michael Pollack

Michael Pollack is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty in 2017, Professor Pollack was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and to Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, an attorney at the Department of Justice’s Federal Programs Branch in Washington, D.C., and a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.

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 in the areas of property law, state and local government law, and land use regulation to uncover how local institutional decisionmaking and the public and private regulation of space affect people’s lives, wallets, health, satisfaction, and overall welfare.