Role: JD, LLM Professor of Law, Emory Law School

  Contact: jnash4@emory.edu

 Scholarship:
Environmental Law | International Environmental Law | Property Law

Jonathan Nash specializes in environmental law, property law, civil procedure and the study of courts and judges. Before coming to Emory Law, Professor Nash served as the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He teaches courses in environmental law, international environmental law, property, land use, civil procedure, and law and economics. Most recently, Professor Nash was a visiting professor at University of Chicago Law School, and he has served as a visiting professor at Hofstra University School of Law and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Professor Nash is a prolific scholar, publishing in many highly regarded law journals.

Prior to teaching, Professor Nash was a law clerk to the Honorable Donald Stuart Russell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to the Honorable Nina Gershon, then-Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Nash also worked as an attorney in New York. Professor Nash received his LLM from Harvard Law School; his JD from New York University School of Law, graduating magna cum laude; and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York.

Areas of Specialty: Environmental Law, Property Law, Civil Procedure, Courts and Judges