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Professor Brandon Honoré is a property and public law scholar whose work uncovers how taken-for-granted regulatory systems entrench substantive inequalities. He combines interdisciplinary qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial analyses with doctrinal interpretation to reveal systemic injustices and propose reforms. His current projects include a study of how racial neighborhood composition predicts long-run land use outcomes in Chicago as well as an ongoing interview study of civil servants and elected officials in state and local government.
Prior to joining Santa Clara University School of Law, Professor Honoré was an American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science. From 2014 to 2018, he was Legislative Assistant and then Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education, and Related Agencies in Washington, D.C. His legislative work began in 2013 as an inaugural Teach for America Capitol Hill Fellow. Before his time in Washington, he was a middle school social studies and language arts teacher in the San Antonio Independent School District. Professor Honoré holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University, where he was a Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies and an instructor for the Northwestern Prison Education Program.
J.D. Northwestern University
M.Ed. University of Texas at San Antonio
B.A. Texas A&M University
- State & Local Government
- Land Use
- Law and Society
- Race and the Law
Lincoln Quillian, John J. Lee & Brandon Honoré, Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976–2016, 12 Race Soc. Probl. 13 (2020).