Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), the focus of eminent domain scholarship and the public have been on the public use side of the condemnation equation.
However interesting those issues are (and they truly are), practitioners of eminent domain law understand that a vast majority of the issues in litigation still revolve around just compensation and valuation. The Supreme Court has even shown an interest, with the Justices asking questions about compensation in at least two oral arguments where the issue was not directly presented (here and here for example). While the ABA has recently published books about eminent domain generally (see here and here), it has not produced one devoted to just compensation.
But it soon will. The section on State and Local Government Law has decided to publish a book on current issues in just compensation and valuation, and is calling for authors to contribute chapters. I will be editing the book, so please email me with your interest and your suggestions for chapter topics. At this point, no final decision has been made on the content, so be creative. The targeted date for for production of the manuscript is July 2013, with publication in Q3-4.