Christopher Serkin

Professor Serkin is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School. His scholarship focuses on property, land use, and local government law. His most recent publications are "Big Differences for Small Governments," in the New York University Law Review, and "Local Property Law," in the Columbia Law Review. Other works by Professor Serkin have appeared in the Northwestern, Indiana, Michigan and Michigan State Law Reviews, including pieces co-authored with James Krier and Michael Heller.

Professor Serkin joined Brooklyn Law School in 2005 after spending two years at NYU School of Law as an Acting Assistant Professor in its Lawyering Program. In the 2008–2009 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor at both the University of Pennsylvania Law School and at NYU School of Law. Prior to teaching, he clerked for Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Judge J. Garvan Murtha of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.  He was also an associate with the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2000–2002. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an articles editor on the Michigan Law Review.