BBI Senior Fellow, J.D., LLM.
rpmalloy@syr.eduProfessor Robin Paul Malloy is the E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, and the Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Syracuse University College of Law. He is a leading expert on property; land use law and zoning; real estate transactions; and on law, markets, and marketization. He has pioneered work on the intersections among of land use, zoning, and disability law. He is also recognized as a leading legal scholar on the jurisprudence of Adam Smith. Several of his works on market theory and law are translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. Malloy has published twenty books with two additional books in progress. Among his books are publications with Cambridge University Press, Carolina Academic Press, Aspen Law Publishing, and Edward Elgar. He has also authored numerous book chapters and scholarly articles. Three of his books, several book chapters, and multiple law review articles specifically address the complexity of enhancing the accessibility of our built environment when dealing with issues of land use and disability law.
In 2026, he will be a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Palermo, Italy; and has previously been Sun Life Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University, U.K.; the Dickenson Dees Fellow at University of Durham, U.K.; and for three consecutive summers served as a teaching fellow in China (Beijing and Shanghai) with the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. He has served on the International Advisory Board for the Law and Economics Program at St. Gallens University, Switzerland; as a member of the Turin School of Local Regulation, Turin, Italy; and as a member of the multi-year Working Group on Law and Marketization at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Malloy is the founder and inaugural president of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. He served on the Board of the National Italian American Bar Association for 20 years, and was Vice Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeal for the Town of DeWitt, NY for 10 years. He has also served on numerous committees of the Association of American Law Schools.