Courses Offered:

Property
Land Use

Professional Biographical Information:

Christian Turner has joined Georgia Law as an assistant professor teaching property and land use law.

Turner comes to Georgia Law from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was a visiting assistant professor. His areas of interest are property law, natural resources law and the regulation of knowledge and information.

Previously, he has served as an associate at the Wiggin and Dana law firm in Connecticut and as a judicial clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Turner also interned at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in 2000.

His scholarship focuses on the regulation of information, the regulation of natural resources and applying his mathematical training to legal theory. Turner's publications include: "Origin, Scope, and Irrevocability of the Manifest Disregard of the Law Doctrine: Second Circuit Views" in the Quinnipiac Law Review and "Rosetta Stone" in Our Environment, Our Future.

Turner graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in mathematics in 1993, where he was named Mathematics Undergraduate of the Year. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1999 before graduating from Stanford University with a J.D. in 2002. At Stanford, Turner served as president of the Stanford Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.