Social-Ecological Resilience and Sustainability

Jonathan Rosenbloom is the Dwight D. Opperman Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Environmental and Sustainability Programming at Drake University Law School. He is the co-author of two textbooks: Social-Ecological Resilience & Sustainability (Aspen Publishing 2018) (with Shelley Saxer) and Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials (9th ed. West 2017) (with John Nolon, Patricia Salkin, Stephen Miller); and co-editor of Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (RoutledgeTaylor & Francis Group 2018) (with Dan Cole, Blake Hudson) and Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism (ELI Press) (with Sarah Krakoff, Melissa Powers) (ELI 2018). His scholarship has been published in Hastings Law Journal, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Washington Law Review, and others.

In partnership with the University of Colorado Denver, Jonathan is co-director of the Sustainable Development Code, a model land use code designed to provide local governments with the best sustainability practices in land use. He is also the founder of the Drake Fellowship in Sustainability Law, awarded to two students annually, who work to improve local regulations for the academic year.

Jonathan received his Bachelor's in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, JD from New York Law School, and LLM from Harvard Law School. Prior to teaching, he founded a non-profit that worked with state and local governments on becoming more sustainable, clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, and worked for Reed Smith LLP. He was named Drake Law Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2013, University of Oregon, School of Law Environmental & Natural Resource Distinguished Visitor in 2016, and Vermont Law School, Distinguished Environment Law Scholar in 2017.