For the past couple of days, we’ve been in Denver, attending the 2026 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at Denver Law School.
The program is pretty wide-ranging. Everything from very land-usey topics like state-local delegation, zoning, and takings, and broader subjects like housing policy, western history lessons, and planning strategies. In attendance: private practice lawyers, government lawyers, elected officials, public interest lawyers, legal scholars, planners, and zoning officials.
Yesterday’s view out of the faculty lounge looking west. (Something tells us that if we were on the faculty here, we’d be spending a lot of time in this chair.)
Ethics of AI for Lawyers. Beware those hallucinations, and check your work!
Our Pacific Legal Foundation colleague Brian Hodges speaking about our case Sheetz v. County of El Dorado.
The next book we’re going to read (review to be posted here). The author was the keynote speaker at lunch yesterday, and walked us through a history of zoning, the Euclid decision, and his thoughts about how zoning and land use regulation can be improved. While Mr. Elliott does not zero in on property rights as the driver of these improvements, there’s actually a lot in his proposals that we could get on board with. Stay tuned for our book review.
Yesterday’s view out the window.
… and the weather today.