John Infranca

Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Scholarship & Research, Suffolk University Law School.

John Infranca is Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Scholarship & Research at Suffolk University Law School. He will serve as a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School in Spring 2026, teaching courses in land use law and election law. Professor Infranca’s scholarship focuses on land-use regulation, local government law, affordable housing policy, property theory, and law and religion. Three of his recent articles, Singling Out Single-Family Zoning, The New State Zoning: Land Use Preemption amid a Housing Crisis and The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon were selected for inclusion in the Land Use & Environmental Law Review as among the best land use law articles of the year. He is a co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy and of the Elgar Research Agenda for U.S. Land Use and Planning Law.  Infranca is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled “Single-family Zoning and the Police Power: A Legal and Intellectual History,” that traces debates nationally and in local communities over the relationship between zoning and the police power. His other current research projects include the role of discretionary approval processes and neighborhood associations in land use law and how property rights rhetoric is invoked in debates over land use reform.