Professor Michael Allan Wolf joins Dean Merritt McAlister on this episode of Serious About Law for a wide-ranging conversation about his journey from Lakeland, Florida, to becoming one of the nation’s leading scholars in property and land use law. Professor Wolf reflects on his early fascination with the law through shows like Perry Mason, his time at Emory University and Georgetown University Law Center, and how an unexpected path through graduate study at Harvard University ultimately shaped his career as a legal historian and professor. Along the way, he shares candid insights about law school, intellectual curiosity, and discovering the conceptual side of the law that inspired his academic work.

The conversation also explores Professor Wolf’s decades-long career teaching at University  ...