John Sprankling, a Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, is an expert on property law. He is the author or coauthor of six books on this subject, including Property: A Contemporary Approach (West), Understanding Property Law (Carolina; Peking), The International Law of Property (Oxford), and Global Issues in Property Law (West). His articles have been published in journals at Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Stanford, UCLA, and other schools. His most recent article is The Constitutional Right to “Establish a Home,” 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 632 (2022), which proposes a new method to challenge the constitutionality of exclusionary zoning. He received the Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award and has been selected as Professor of the Year by McGeorge students on multiple occasions. He has also served as the Chair of the Property Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Before joining the McGeorge faculty, he practiced law with Miller, Starr, and Regalia for 14 years, specializing in property and environmental law; during this time he also taught at Stanford Law School and UC Hastings College of the Law.
Education
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (1972)
J.D., University of California, Berkeley (1976)
J.S.M., Stanford University (1984)