Nicole Garnett

Contact Information

Nicole Stelle Garnett
Professor of Law
3155 Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
(574) 631-3091
ngarnett@nd.edu

Degrees

B.A. with distinction and honors in Political Science, Stanford
J.D., Yale Law School

Educational research interests

Education reform, especially school choice; Catholic education; Schools and neighborhoods; Schools and social capital

Current studies in education

“The Effects of Catholic School Closings on Urban Neighborhoods” (with Peg Brinig)

Select publications

Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance, 106 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 277 (2007)

Planning as Public Use, 34 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 443 (2007)

Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs? 117 YALE LAW JOURNAL 599 (2006)

The Neglected Political Economy of Eminent Domain, 105 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 101 (2006)

Unsubsidizing Suburbia, 90 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 459 (2005)

Bio

Nicole Stelle Garnett joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1999, and is Professor Garnett is currently serving as a Faculty Fellow in the Provost’s Office. She received her B.A. from Stanford in 1992, where she graduated with honors and distinction in political science and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995.

Professor Garnett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1995-1996) and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court (1998-1999). Professor Garnett also worked for two years (1996-98) as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C. At the Institute for Justice, she participated in the legal defense of the groundbreaking school choice programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee.

Professor Garnett’s primary research interests include property and land use law and education reform. From January through June 2007, Professor Garnett was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.