Sara Bronin is an attorney, architect, and nationally-recognized scholar who focuses on creating and facilitating economically and environmentally sustainable cities. She serves as the Thomas F. Gallivan Chair of Real Property Law at UConn Law School, and the faculty director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Law. Her scholarly research examines property, land use, historic preservation, and renewable energy law. Through the American Law Institute, she is coordinating the land use of the forthcoming Fourth Restatement of Property.
Outside the classroom, Professor Bronin has served as an expert witness and as a consultant to cities, state agencies, and private firms. Among other projects, she helped lead the 360 State Street project, a mixed-use, transit-oriented, LEED-Platinum project in New Haven, Connecticut. She serves as Chair of the City of Hartford’s Planning & Zoning Commission and in that role has overseen sweeping, award-winning changes to the zoning, subdivision, and inland wetlands regulations. She also serves as Chair of the Hartford Energy Improvement District and as Chair of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. She is a past President of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association and past Chair of the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative.
Professor Bronin received bachelor degrees in architecture and Plan II liberal arts honors from the University of Texas, a master’s degree in economic and social history from the University of Oxford – which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar – and a law degree from Yale Law School.