Biography
Professor Stern specializes in property, land use law, and real estate transactions. Her research focuses on applications of social and cognitive psychology to legal regimes of property ownership, land disputes, and natural resources. She came to Loyola from the University of Chicago Law School, where she spent two years as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Prior to that, she worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in property and administrative litigation. She has also served as a research fellow at the Yale Center for Law and Environmental Policy and as a law clerk for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Education
A.B., Brown, 1996
J.D., Yale, 1999

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1321
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 915-7872
Fax: (312) 915-7201
Email: sstern1@luc.edu

Spring 2009 Teaching Schedule

Land Use
Property
Real Estate Transactions

Works in Progress

Property Frames (empirical study of 400 subjects assessing how framing or describing property rights affects loss aversion, perceptions of rights infringement, and valuation) (with co-author Jonathan Nash)

Publications

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

Encouraging Conservation on Private Lands: A Behavioral Analysis of Financial Incentives, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 541 (2006)

State Action as Political Voice in Global Climate Change Policy, in Adjudicating Climate Change (Osofsky & Burns ed. forthcoming

Reconsidering "Crowding Out" of Intrinsic Motivation from Tax Incentives (forthcoming in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation)

Temporal Dynamics of Disclosure: The Example of Residential Real Estate Conveyancing, Utah L. Rev. 57 (2005)

Cognitive Consistency: Theory Maintenance and Administrative Rulemaking, 63 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 589 (2002)

Law Faculty
Law Administration & Staff