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, local government law, 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 "Elgar Research Agenda for U.S. Land Use and Planning Law."
Infranca’s scholarship has appeared in journals including the Georgetown Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Florida Law Review, Richmond Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Yale Law & Policy Review, and Stanford Law & Policy Review. His articles "Singling Out Single-Family Zoning," "The New State Zoning: Land Use Preemption amid a Housing Crisis," and "The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon" were all selected for inclusion in the Land Use & Environmental Law Review as among the best land use law articles of the year.
He is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled “Single-family Zoning and the Police Power: A Legal and Intellectual History,” that traces debates nationally and in local communities over the relationship between zoning and the police power. His other current research projects examine the role of discretionary approval processes and neighborhood associations in land use law, the relevance of property rights rhetoric for debates over land use reform, religious liberty claims of individuals facing execution, and the relevance of Catholic social teaching for various urban law and policy issues.
