John Infranca

John Infranca is an Associate Professor of Law at Suffolk University School of Law, where he serves as Director of Faculty Scholarship & Research. His work bridges land use regulation, affordable housing policy, property theory, and law and religion, with a focus on urban legal frameworks and regulatory innovation.

• Education: JD from New York University School of Law, MTS in Moral Theology from Notre Dame, BA in Liberal Studies from Notre Dame.

His research examines zoning reforms, sharing economy regulation, and religious liberty-adjacent land use issues. He co-edited the Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (2018) and the Elgar Research Agenda for Land Use and Planning Law (2023). Recent articles analyze exclusionary zoning, development rights transfers, and state-level preemption in housing crises. His work has been recognized in leading journals and forums, including the Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (2020). Notably, he has served as a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School (Spring 2024, returning 2026) and teaches courses in Property Law, Land Use, and Religion & Law.

• Scientific Recognition:
  • Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies selected for Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (2020)
  • Multiple articles featured in Land Use & Environmental Law Review as top land use law works