Donald Large
Emeritus Professor of Law

Specialty Areas

Property, Land Use, Conflicts of Law

Academic Credentials

B.A. 1964 Cornell University
LL.B. 1967 Cornell Law School
Articles editor, Cornell Law Review
Member, Order of the Coif, Phi Kappa Phi

Professional Background

Professor Large joined the faculty in 1977, having previously been on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. Professor Large was one of the first environmental lawyers in the late 1960's and early 1970's, representing the Sierra Club and other environmental groups in Supreme Court cases such as Sierra Club v. Morton, and numerous Circuit Court decisions. He also served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corp, and participated as a prosecutor in one of the celebrated My Lai war crimes prosecutions. Large is the author of three books and numerous articles on land use, environmental controls, real estate, water rights and disability issues. He has been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, the University of Glasgow (Scotland), the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and the University of Arizona. Present projects include an article on the First Amendment and content discrimination, as it applies to regulation of billboards.