Professor

Sara

C.

Bronin

Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, George Washington University professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads the National Zoning Atlas and National Preservation Atlas, which illuminate land use rules influencing our economy, society, health, and happiness.  For that work, she received the 2025 Heinz Award for the Economy.

As a scholar, Bronin has (co-)authored two treatises, four books, and dozens of articles. She has been a reformer and change-maker in public roles at the local, state, and federal levels, including a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed role chairing the federal historic preservation agency. She holds a J.D. from Yale (Harry S Truman Scholarship), M.Sc. from the University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship), and B.Architecture and B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas. A seventh-generation Texan, Sara is a native Houstonian. 

She serves as an Associate Reporter on American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property project.