Moira O’Neill, a Faculty Research Affiliate, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of California, San Francisco College of Law.

She is a public law scholar focused on climate resilience, equity, and democracy. She writes in the areas of environmental law, land-use law, housing policy, and state and local government law using interdisciplinary and empirical methods. Much of her work explores how state and local governments regulate land-use to address climate change while also tackling spatial inequality.

In addition to being a Terner Center Affiliate, Moira is a Faculty Research Affiliate at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development, as well as an affiliated scholar of UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in the Luskin School of Public Policy.

Previously, Moira was a Research Associate Professor of Law in the University of Virginia’s School of Law, where she taught land-use law, state and local government law, and housing policy courses. She also served as an Associate Director of the University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute.

Prior to her time at the University of Virginia, Moira was an Associate Research Scholar in the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. She also previously taught land use law and state and local government law courses at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning; and at UC Berkeley Law.