Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Her teaching and research focus on education policy and topics related to property law, land use, and urban development. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles, she is the author of two books, Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009). Garnett received her B.A. with distinction in Political Science from Stanford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She then served as a law clerk for Judge Morris S. Arnold on the Eighth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas. Before joining the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1999, she worked at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., where she participated in the first lawsuit challenging the exclusion of faith-based schools from the program at issue in Carson v. Makin.
