Sara C. Bronin

Sara C. Bronin (formerly Galvan) joined the faculty in 2006 and is an Associate Professor of Law and the faculty program director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Law. A licensed architect and licensed attorney, Professor Bronin has researched and published in the areas of property, land use, historic preservation, green building, and renewable energy law. Her scholarship focuses on creating economically and environmentally sustainable American cities. She is often invited to speak about her work; in the last year, she has presented at events at Yale Law School, Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, Vanderbilt, Yale School of Architecture, and the Environmental Law Institute, among other places.  She is an affiliated faculty member of the University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering and has coordinated several Gallivan Conferences in real property law. 

Outside the classroom, Professor Bronin has served as one of the lead attorneys for the mixed-use, transit-oriented, LEED-Platinum 360 State Street project. She has also been the President of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association (during the year it won the Hispanic National Bar's Affiliate of the Year Award), the Vice President of the Hartford Historic Preservation/Properties Commissions, and a board member of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. 

Professor Bronin earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin and is a LEED accredited professional.  As a Rhodes Scholar, she received a master's degree in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford. She received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. 

Representative Publications

- Books

Historic Preservation Law, with Professor J. Peter Byrne (Foundation Press), forthcoming 2012

- Book Chapters

"The Promise and Perils of Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands," in Tribes, Land, and the Environment (Ezra Rosser & Sarah Krakoff, eds., Ashgate Press), forthcoming 2012

- Journal Articles

"A Renewable Energy Case Study:  360 State Street," forthcoming 64 Vanderbilt L. Rev. (2012) 

Solar Rights for Texas Property Owners, 89 Texas L. Rev. See Also 79 (2011)

Curbing Energy Sprawl with Microgrids, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 547 (2010)

Modern Lights, 80 U. Colo. L. Rev. 101 (2009)

Solar Rights, 89 B. U. L. Rev. 1217 (2009)

The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, and the States, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 231 (2008)

Wrestling with MUDs to Pin Down the Truth About Special Districts, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 3041 (2007)

Rehabilitating Rehab through State Building Codes, 115 Yale L.J. 1744 (2006)

Beyond Worship: The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 and Religious Institutions' Auxiliary Uses, 24 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 207 (2006)

Gone Too Far': Oregon's Measure 37 and the Perils of Over-Regulating Land Use, 23 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 587 (2005)

- Other Writing 

New Haven’s Elm City Market: Coop Expands Access to Fresh Food, Fed Res. Bank of Boston Communities & Banking, Spring 2011, at 15