Vanderbilt University Law School
Jon W. Bruce
Professor of Law Emeritus
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Email: jon.bruce@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interest(s)
Property, easements, land use planning, real estate finance
Education
J.D. College of William & Mary
B.A. Hanover College
Biography
Jon W. Bruce is a nationally recognized expert in real property law, real estate finance, and the law of easements. His treatise, The Law of Easements and Licenses in Land, co-authored with his colleague James Ely, is a frequently cited and influential treatise on the law of easements. Professor Bruce was the John J. Sparkman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law in the spring of 1999, and he was honored as a Parson's Visitor at the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1993. Professor Bruce has taught Property, Land Use Planning, and Real Estate Finance and Development. He received awards for outstanding teaching in 2003, 2004 and 2008. He retired from Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2009.
Representative Publications
Books
Real Estate Finance in a Nutshell (6th edition 2009)
The Law of Easements and Licenses in Land (revised edition March 2009) (with James Ely)
Cases and Materials on Modern Property Law (6th edition 2007) (with James Ely)
A Land Use Anthology (editor, 1998)
Articles
"Vanderbilt Law School in the Nineteenth Century: Its Creation and Formative Years," 56 Vanderbilt Law Review 497 (2003) (with D. Don Welch)
"The Role Uniform Real Property Acts Have Played in the Development of American Land Law: Some General Observations," 27 Wake Forest Law Review 331 (1992)
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