John Infranca is a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. His scholarship focuses on land-use regulation, affordable housing policy, property theory, and law and religion. Following law school, Infranca served as a law clerk to Judge Berle Schiller, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Judge Julio Fuentes, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Infranca worked as a legal fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, where he focused on land use regulation and affordable housing policy. He is a co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy and of the forthcoming Elgar Research Agenda for U.S. Land Use and Planning Law. He is also the lead researcher for the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas. His current research projects examine the legal and intellectual history of single-family zoning districts, the role of discretionary approval processes in land use law, Catholic social teaching and various urban law and policy issues, and topics at the intersection of religious liberty and property.
