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.

Adminstrative Law

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Cognitive Consistency: Theory Maintenance and Administrative Rulemaking, Pittsburgh Law Review (2002)
 

Environmental Law

State Action as Political Voice in Global Climate Change Policy, Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches (2009)
 

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Reconsidering Crowding Out of Intrinsic Motivation from Financial Incentives: The Case of Conservation on Private Lands, 5 Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives (2008)
 

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Encouraging Conservation on Private Lands: A Behavioral Analysis of Financial Incentives, Arizona Law Review (2006)
 

Property Law & Real Estate

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The Inviolate Home: Housing Exceptionalism and the Fourth Amendment (forthcoming 2010), Cornell Law Review (2010)
 

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Property Frames (with J. Nash) (forthcoming 2010), Washington University Law Review (2010)
 

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Residential Protectionism and the Legal Mythology of Home, Michigan Law Review (2009)
 

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Temporal Dynamics of Disclosure: The Example of Residential Real Estate Conveyancing, Utah Law Review (2005)