Stephanie M. Stern Associate Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar

Professor Stern's research focuses on applications of social and cognitive psychology to legal regimes of property ownership, land use, and environmental law. She joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2009 and teaches in the areas of land use, environmental law, property, and commercial real estate transactions. Professor Stern was previously an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. From 2001 to 2003, she was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on property and environmental litigation.

Professor Stern received her law degree from Yale Law School and her B.A. in psychology from Brown University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and served as a research fellow at the Yale Center for Law and Environmental Policy.