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Shelley Ross Saxer
Shelley Ross Saxer
Laure Sudreau Chair in Law, Pepperdine University, Caruso School of Law
Professor Saxer has been teaching at the Caruso School of Law for over thirty-years and is a co-author of Contemporary Property, American Casebook Series, Thomson West (5th ed. with Colleen Medill, Grant S. Nelson, and Dale A. Whitman) and Land Use, American Casebook Series, Thomson West (8th ed. with David L. Callies, Robert H. Freilich, and Ashira Pelman Ostrow). She is also a co-author with Jonathan Rosenbloom on Social Ecological Resilience & Sustainability, Wolters Kluwer (2018). Saxer has written over thirty law review articles on topics such as civil forfeiture, eminent domain, regulatory takings, water law, law and religion, disaster law, climate resiliency, nuisance, and state action. While in law school, Professor Saxer served as the chief managing editor of the UCLA Law Review. Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. of the Federal District Court for the Central District of California and then worked briefly as a corporate associate for the Century City law offices of O'Melveny & Myers. She is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Bar Association, and the California State Bar. She has also been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Education
- J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- B.S., Pepperdine University, summa cum laude