Author: Chris Elmendorf

Chris Elmendorf is Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress, and a member of the American Law Institute. He is a leading authority on California land-use and housing law and has done widely noted work on public opinion about housing markets and policy. Published in numerous top journals across the fields of law, political science, and economics, his research has shaped legislation and judicial opinions and been covered by major media outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg News, and CalMatters. A graduate of Oberlin College and Yale Law School, Elmendorf clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit before joining the UC Davis faculty.