Hannah Carrese

Hannah Carrese is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on property and natural resources law, especially common and public land, and on laws protecting open land, water, and wildlife. She has conducted research addressing these themes in the western United States, England, and Chile. Her current project is an article on the problems property law poses for using narrow trails to conserve a broad expanse of land, and on the promise reexamining and reviving the purposes of national scenic trails might hold for land conservation. Hannah also has published on John Locke’s property theory, charting its departure from the common law of property, and written on political theories regarding refugees, with a focus on Hannah Arendt’s concept of political homelessness. She earned an MPhil in political theory at Oxford and undergraduate and law degrees at Yale, and she clerked for Judge Harris L Hartz on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.