James "Jim" Bross
Professor of Law Emeritus Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth- Education
LL.M. in Community Law and Criminal Litigation, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
J.D., Catholic University of American School of Law
A.B. in English, Catholic University
- Specializations
Environmental Law
Property
- Biography
James Bross, professor of law, clerked with Neighborhood Legal Services and was a case analyst with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, while attending law school. Upon graduation, he provided criminal and civil representation to low-income residents in Philadelphia with the Defender Association and Community Legal Services. These employment opportunities triggered his interest in housing and neighborhood development, especially the administrative processes that manage those fields.
Bross’ subsequent teaching and research centered on the nexus of housing, land use regulation and natural resources, a focus that was shaped at the beginning of his teaching career at Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon, when the state adopted landlord-tenant law reforms and its statewide land use system. That foundation prompted courses in Property, Land Use, Water Law and Natural Resources Law at Georgia State University College of Law where he was a founding faculty member. Bross chaired the Admissions Committee, the Promotion & Tenure Committee and a Self-Study during the early critical growth of the college to full accreditation.
Bross has published works on landlord-tenant law, land use regulation and water law in law reviews and Thompson on Real Property. He is the author of Georgia in the leading treatise Waters and Water Rights through 25 years of revised editions.
Bross is now a professor of law emeritus.
- Publications
Books
James L. Bross, Cases and Materials on Property (Self-Published 1974-).
Book Chapters
James L. Bross, Georgia, in 6 Waters and Water Rights (Robert Beck ed., 3d ed., 2005 & Supp. 2008-).
James L. Bross, Georgia, in 6 Clark's Water & Water Rights (Robert Beck ed., 2d ed., 1995 & Supp. 1996-2004).
James L. Bross, Servitudes, in 7 Thompson on Real Property § 62 at 499 (D. Thomas ed., 1994 & Supp. 1995-).
James L. Bross, Georgia, in 6 Clark's Water & Water Rights 97 (Robert Beck ed., 1991 & Supp. 1992).
James L. Bross, Artists' Property Rights, in Law and the Visual Arts (Leonard D. Duboff & Mary Ann Crawford Duboff eds., 1974).
Articles
Jim Bross, Tribute to Julian Conrad Juegensmeyer, 4 J. Comp. Urban L. & Pol'y 4 (2020).
James Bross, Sewers: Infra Dig and Infra Dug, 42-43 Urb. Law. 137 (2010-2011).
James L. Bross, Smart Growth in Georgia: Micro-Smart and Macro-Stupid, 35 Wake Forest L. Rev. 609 (2000).
James L. Bross, Continuing Column, Current Developments - Real Property, Probate & Property, 1987-1982.
James L. Bross, J. S. Altman & P. Bolster, Judicial Review of Georgia Zoning: Cyclones and Doldrums in the Windmills of the Mind, 2 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 97 (1986).
James L. Bross, State Building Codes: Firm Ceilings, Hard Floors or Shaky Foundations for Local Construction and Rehabilitation Standards, 1 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 9 (1985).
James L. Bross, The Teacher as Lawyer, 53 N.Y. U. L. Rev. 648 (1978).
James Bross, Book Land Use Planning, 5 Envtl. L. 193 (1975) (reviewing E.F. Roberts, Land-Use Planning: Cases & Materials (1971) & Donald J. Hagman, Public Planning and Control of Urban & Land Development: Cases & Materials (1973)).
James L. Bross, Law Reform Man Meets the Slumlord: New Remedies and Old Buildings, 3 Urb. L. 609 (1971).
James L. Bross, Comment, Tenants' Remedies in the District of Columbia: New Hope for Reform, 18 Cath. U. L. Rev. 80 (1968).
Other
Probate & Property (James L. Bross ed., ABA Section on Real Property 1987-1992).
James L. Bross, Land Use and Environmental Law Review (James L. Bross et al. eds., 1981-1991).
James L. Bross, Neighborhood Land Use Handbook (James L. Bross ed., Neighborhood Law Institute 1974).