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Zachary Bray was appointed as an Associate Professor of Law in 2016. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor during the fall of 2015, when he taught Administrative Law and Real Estate Transactions at UK Law. A Lexington native and a graduate of the Yale Law School, Bray has worked since 2010 at the University of Houston Law Center, where he has been recognized with a university-wide Provost's Teaching Excellence Award.
Bray's research on private land trusts, low-income housing, the Endangered Species Act, groundwater conflicts, and religious land use has been published in the Brigham Young University Law Review, the Maryland Law Review, the Utah Law Review, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. He has taught classes on Property, Natural Resources, Real Estate Transactions, Water Law, Land Use, Administrative Law, Payment Systems, and related writing seminars. Prior to entering academia, Bray worked for the Honorable Jennifer B. Coffman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and as an attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, California.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Juris Doctor, Yale University
2005
Bachelor of Arts, University Of Notre Dame
2001
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The Kentucky Monuments Workshop (RPA Pilot / Seed Project)
Bray, Z. (PI)
University of Kentucky UNITE Research Priority Area
1/1/22 → 12/31/22
Project: Research project
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In the Shadows of the Looming Oaks: Monumental Lessons from Prophetstown and Tippecanoe
Bray, Z., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Who Tells Your Story: On the Construction of Public Memory at Home and Abroad. Levinson, S. (ed.). Duke University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Precious and Dear to Us is Only This Place: The Transformative Potential of Monumental Remnants
Bray, Z., Jan 1 2023, In: Washington University Journal of Law and Policy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Monuments of folly: How local governments can challenge confederate "statue statutes"
Bray, Z., Sep 2018, In: Temple Law Review. 91, 1, p. 1-54 54 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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RLUPIA and the Limits of Religious Institutionalism
Bray, Z. A., Jan 1 2016, In: Utah law review. 2016, 1, p. 41-103Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Texas Groundwater and Tragically Stable “Crossovers”
Bray, Z. A., Jan 1 2014, In: BYU Law Review. p. 1283-1346Research output: Contribution to journal › Article