Events and Seminars

Upcoming Events and Seminars

July 30 - August 2, 2009

I'll be attending the State & Local Government Law Section meeting at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

September 16, 2009

I'm on the faculty of Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law, an annual program dealing with zoning approvals, constitutional limitations on land use regulations, and administrative procedure. I will be leading sessions on "Appealing an Administrative Zoning Decision" and "Current Case Law and Legislative Update." More information here.

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Past Events and Seminars

May 14, 2009

Along with my Damon Key colleague Christi-Anne Kudo Chock, I was on the faculty of Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning in Hawaii in Honolulu.  I spoke about "Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations." Materials and links are posted here. 

April 2, Noon - 1:30 pm, EDT

Hot Topics in Land Use Law 2009 - The 2009 version of this popular annual program covered the latest developments in several areas of the law related to land use regulation.  Among the topics were the ability of town boards to control obstreperous speakers; the latest law concerning ethical constraints on state and local officials and the citizens who appear before them; restrictions on the government's ability to limit religious land uses under  the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA); what's new concerning cell tower sitting; the use of pretextual public purposes to justify takings; new law about impact fees and exactions; and citizen input into brown fields restoration and the backlash against it. I spoke about about the latest developments in eminent domain and pretext.  Items I discussed are posted here.

April 1, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, EDT

Condemnation Hot Topics - The program examined new and important condemnation cases and trends, and also reviewed eminent domain as a backdrop for land use regulation. I spoke about pretext and public use in eminent domain cases. Also on the faculty were Robert Freilich, Mary Lynn Huett, and Edward Sullivan. Professor Steven Eagle moderated. Items I discussed are posted here.

February 20, 2009

Our firm's annual land use seminar, Zoning, Subdivision and Land Development Law. Materials from my session on "Supreme Court, Regulatory Takings and Eminent Domain Update" here.

January 15-16, 2009

I was on the faculty at the Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, and spoke about "Emerging Water Issues." My materials are posted here.

September 27, 2008

I spoke about about Background Principles and Paradigm Shifting: The Role of Property Rights in Historic Preservation Laws, at the University of Hawaii Law School's workshop on burial and landmark issues. A summary of the conference:

Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the University of Hawaii School of Law will be presenting a workshop "Hawaii State Historic Preservation Laws: Reclaiming the Past, Shaping the Future."  The other speakers will be Dr. Kehau Abad, Oahu Island Burial Council; Dawn N.S. Chang, Kuiwalu; Prof. Carl C. Christensen, William S. Richardson School of Law; Dr. Thomas S. Dye, T.S. Dye and Associates; Moses Haia, Esq., Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Dr. Holly McEldowney, DLNR, Division of State Parks; Nancy McMahon, DLNR, Historic Preservation Division; Kai Markell, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and William M. Tam, Esq., Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing.  The keynote speaker will be Dr. Patrick Kirch, Departments of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Materials from my presentation are posted here.