Curriculum Vitae

Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT  06520-8215
Tel:  (203) 432-7033
Fax:  (203) 432-4871     E-mail: robert.ellickson@yale.edu

EMPLOYMENT

1988–    YALE LAW SCHOOL
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, 1988–; Deputy Dean, 1991–92.  Teaching subjects (since 1970):  Property, Torts, Land Use, Land Transactions, Urban Legal History, The Homeless and the Law, Oil & Gas, Local Government Law, various seminars

1981–1988 STANFORD LAW SCHOOL
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, 1985–1988; Professor, 1981–1985

1970–1981 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW SCHOOL
Professor, 1975–1981; Associate Professor, 1972–1975; Assistant Professor, 1970–1972

Visitorships   HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Fall 2000; YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1984–1985; STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, 1977; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, 1974–1975

1968–1970 LEVITT & SONS, Lake Success, New York (homebuilding firm)
Coordinator, Operations Group, 1969–1970; Manager, Urban Affairs, 1968–1969

1967–1968 PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON URBAN HOUSING (KAISER COMMITTEE), Washington, D.C., Attorney-Advisor; wrote about one-half of final report

EDUCATION

1966–1967 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Department of Urban and Regional Planning

1963–1966 YALE LAW SCHOOL, LL.B.

1959–1963 OBERLIN COLLEGE, A.B. Magna cum laude with high honors in Government. 
Phi Beta Kappa (junior year).

PUBLICATIONS

Books:  

LAND USE CONTROLS:  CASES AND MATERIALS (3d. ed) (with Vicki L. Been), Aspen Law
 and Business (2005).  

PERSPECTIVES ON PROPERTY LAW (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman), Aspen
Law and Business (3rd ed. 2002). 

LAND USE CONTROLS:  CASES AND MATERIALS (2d. ed) (with Vicki L. Been), Aspen Law
and Business (2000).

PERSPECTIVES ON PROPERTY LAW (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman), Little, Brown & Company (2d ed. 1995).

ORDER WITHOUT LAW:  HOW NEIGHBORS SETTLE DISPUTES, Harvard University Press (1991).

CASES AND MATERIALS ON LAND-USE CONTROLS (with A. Dan Tarlock), Little, Brown & Company (1981).  Supplement (1984).  Supplement (1988).

A DECENT HOME:  THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON URBAN HOUSING (Parts 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12).  Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office (1969).

Longer Articles: 

Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth, 116 YALE L.J. 226 (2006)

The Market for Social Norms, 3 AM. L. & ECON. REV. 1-49 (2001)

Taming Leviathan: Will the Centralizing Tide of the Twentieth Century Continue into the Twenty first?, 74 S. CAL. L. REV. 101-18 (2000).

Trends in Legal Scholarship: A Statistical Study, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 517-43 (2000).

New Institutions for Old Neighborhoods, 48 DUKE L.J. 75-110 (1998).

Law and Economics Discovers Social Norms, 27 J. LEGAL STUD. 537-52 (1998).
 
Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows, and Public-Space Zoning, 105 YALE L.J. 1165-1248 (1996).

Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, 71 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 321-411 (1995) (with Thorland).

Property in Land, 102 YALE L.J. 1315-1400 (1993).

The Untenable Case for an Unconditional Right to Shelter, 15 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 17-34 (1992).

The Homelessness Muddle, PUBLIC INTEREST, No. 99, at 45-60 (Spring 1990).

Bringing Culture and Human Frailty to Rational Actors, 65 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 23-55 (1989).

The Case for Coase and Against "Coaseanism", 99 YALE L.J. 611-630 (1989).

A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms:  Evidence from the Whaling Industry, 5 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 83-97 (1989).

A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control, 16 J. LEGAL STUD. 67-99 (1987).

Adverse Possession and Perpetuities Law:  Two Dents in the Libertarian Model of Property Rights, 64 WASH. U. L.Q. 723-737 (1986).

Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta County, 38 STAN. L. REV. 623-87 (1986), reprinted in 18 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENT L. REV. 79-143 (S. Deutsch ed., 1987).

Cities and Homeowners Associations, 130 U. PA. L. REV. 1519-80 (1982).

A Reply to Michelman and Frug, 130 U. PA. L. REV. 1602-08 (1982).

The Irony of "Inclusionary" Zoning, 54 S. CAL. L. REV. 1167-1216 (1981), reprinted in 14 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENT L. REV. 197-246 (S. Deutsch ed., 1983), and also published in slightly different form in RESOLVING THE HOUSING CRISIS 135-187 (M. Johnson ed., 1982).

Public Property Rights:  A Government's Rights and Duties When Its Landowners Come Into Conflict with Outsiders, 52 S. CAL. L. REV. 1627-69 (1979), reprinted in 12 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENTAL L. REV. 129-174 (Donald Hagman ed., 1981), and also published in slightly different form as Public Property Rights: Vicarious Intergovernmental Rights and Liabilities as a Technique for Correcting Intergovernmental Spillovers in ESSAYS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 51-101 (Daniel Rubinfeld ed., 1979).

Suburban Growth Controls:  An Economic and Legal Analysis,  86 YALE L.J. 385-511 (1977).

Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls, 40 U. CHI. L. REV. 681-781 (1973) [reprinted in Ackerman, ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF PROPERTY LAW (1975)].

Chapters in Books:

Norms of the Household, in NORMS AND THE LAW 59-88 (John N. Drobak ed., 2006).

The Puzzle of the Optimal Social Composition of Neighborhoods, in THE TIEBOUT MODEL AT FIFTY: ESSAYS IN PUBLIC ECONOMICS IN HONOR OF WALLACE OATES 199-209 (William A. Fischel ed., 2006).

The Evolution of Social Norms: A Perspective from the Legal Academy, in SOCIAL NORMS 35-75 (Michael Hechter & Karl-Dieter Opp eds., 2001).

The (Limited) Ability of Urban Neighbors to Contract for the Provision of Local Public Goods, in THE FALL AND RISE OF FREEDOM OF CONTRACT 192-200 (Frank H. Buckley ed., 1999).

Of Coase and Cattle, in THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM IN SOCIOLOGY 46-76 (Mary C. Brinton & Victor Nee eds., 1998).

Preface: The Effect of Growth Controls on Housing Prices on the San Francisco Peninsula, in LAND USE AND HOUSING ON THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA (Stanford Environmental Law Society, 1982 Annual, Thomas M. Halger ed., 1983).

The Irony of Inclusionary Zoning, in RESOLVING THE HOUSING CRISIS 125-187 (M. Bruce Johnson ed., 1982).

Public Property Rights: Vicarious Intergovernmental Rights and Liabilities as a Technique for Correcting Intergovernmental Spillovers in ESSAYS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 51-101 (Daniel Rubinfeld ed., 1979).

Shorter Works:

Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 336-340 (2007). http://thepocketpart/org/2007/04/15/ellickson.html.

City, Heal Thyself, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 199-202 (2006), http://thepocketpart/org/2006/12/11/ellickson.html

A Private Idaho in Greenwich Village?, 115 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 5-8 (2005), http://www.thepocketpart.org/2005/10/ellickson.html.

Response to "The Effects of Land Use Regulation on the Price of Housing: What do We Know? What Can We Learn?," by John M. Quigley and Larry A. Rosenthal, 8 CITYSCAPE 261-64 (2005).

The Twilight of Critical Theory: A Reply to Litowitz, 15 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 333-346 (2003).

The Dauntless Gary Schwartz, 50 UCLA L. Rev. 265-68 (2002).

Monitoring the Mayor: Will the New Information Technologies Make Local Officials More Responsible?, 32 URB. LAW. 391-400 (2000).

The Market for "Law-and" Scholarship, 21 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 157-70 (1997).

Comment on "Contracting, Enforcement, and Efficiency: Economics beyond the Law," by Avner Greif, ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 266-270 (M. Bruno & B. Pleskovic eds., 1997).

Takings Legislation: A Comment, 20 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 75-84 (1996).

The Aim of Order Without Law, 150 J.I.T.E. 97-100 (1994).

A Right to Housing?, 4 RESPONISVE COMMUNITY 43-48 (1994).

Rent Control: A Comment on Olsen, 67 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 947-54 (1992).

Three Systems of Land-Use Control, 13 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 67-74 (1990).

The Legal Dimension of the Privatization Movement, 11 GEO. MASON U.L. REV. 157-164 (1988).

Inclusionary Zoning: Yet Another Misguided Urban Policy? PLANNING, Aug. 1985, at 18-20, also reprinted in INCLUSIONARY ZONING MOVES DOWNTOWN (D. Merriam, D. Brower & P. Tegeler eds., 1985).

A Reply to Michelman and Frug, 130 U. PA. L. REV. 1602-08 (1982).

The Role of Economics in the Teaching of Land-Use Law, 1 J. ENVTL. L. & POL. 1-11 (1980).

Comments on Regulation of Mortgage Lending in the Inner City, in URBAN HOUSING 179-85 (Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco 1979).

Ticket to Thermidor: A Commentary on the Proposed California Coastal Plan, 49 S. CAL. L. REV. 715-736 (1976).

Book Review of POLITICS AND LAND (Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Land Use in California), 47 S. CAL. L. REV. 641-672 (1973).

Note, Government Housing Assistance to the Poor, 76 YALE L.J. 508-544 (1967).

BAR ADMISSIONS 

California, 1971; District of Columbia, 1967

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

Adviser, Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes, 1986-2000
   American Law and Economics Association (Board of Directors,
   1993-95; Secretary-Treasurer, 1998-99; Vice President, 1999-2000,
   President, 2000-01)
Member, American Law Institute

HONORS  

Order of the Coif Triennial Award, 1996 (for ORDER WITHOUT LAW)
   Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1995)
USC Associates Award for Teaching Excellence, 1977
University of Miami Law and Economics Center's Annual Prize for
   Distinguished Scholarship in Law and Economics, 1977