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Dr. Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold
University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use and Professor of Law
Chair, Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility
Phone: (502) 852-6388
Email: tony.arnold@louisville.edu

Professor Tony Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use. He is also the Chair of the interdisciplinary Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, and teaches in the University's graduate urban planning program. A nationally recognized scholar in the environmental regulation of land use and property, he teaches in the areas of property law, land use planning and regulation, environmental law and policy, and water resources law and policy. Scholars and professionals have selected his article on property as a web of interests in the Harvard Environmental Law Review as one of the 10 best environmental and land use articles published in 2002, and his article "Working Out an Environmental Ethic: Anniversary Lessons from Mono Lake" (originally given as the Rudolph Distinguished Visiting Lecture at the University of Wyoming) as one of the 20 best environmental and land use articles published in 2004. Professor Arnold has also published extensively on the relationship between environmental justice and land use planning and regulation, among other topics. His most recent works include Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use? (Environmental Law Institute 2005), Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning (American Planning Association 2007), and "The Structure of the Land Use Regulatory System in the United States," forthcoming in the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. Much of his research and teaching focuses on collaborative problem-solving and deliberative and participatory processes, informed by interdisciplinary insights and case studies.

Professor Arnold received his Doctor of Jurisprudence with Distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was founding Executive Editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review and Graduate Student Fellow in the Center for Conflict and Negotiation. He received his Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction from the University of Kansas, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned two national honors, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the TIME Magazine College Achievement Award.

Professor Arnold came to the University of Louisville in 2005 with substantial prior experience in both law practice and legal education. He clerked for a federal appellate judge (the Honorable James K. Logan, 10th Circuit) and practiced law for several years with the largest and oldest law firm in San Antonio, Texas. Professor Arnold taught at Stanford Law School, the University of Puerto Rico Law School, the University of Wyoming College of Law (as the E. George Rudolph Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law), and Chapman University School of Law in Orange, CA (as the Bollinger Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, and Environmental Law, and Director of the Center for Land Resources), where he was voted Professor of the Year by the student body. In San Antonio, Texas, he was a city attorney for two municipalities, a member of the Board of Directors for the Texas Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, and vice president and pro bono general counsel of a micro-enterprise loan fund. He served as Chairman of the Planning Commission of Anaheim, California. In Louisville, he has continued his record of public service and civic engagement, serving on the boards of directors of the West Jefferson County Community Task Force, and Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville, as well as the Louisville Metro Fine Particle Matter Air Quality Task Force.